An optimization model for natural gas supply portfolios of a power generation company

10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.02.020Applied Energy1071-9APEN

Optimizing natural gas supply and energy portfolios of a generation company

2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, PMAPS 2010231-23

Multi-Agent Role Allocation: Issues, Approaches, and Multiple Perspectives

In cooperative multi-agent systems, roles are used as a design concept when creating large systems, they are known to facilitate specialization of agents, and they can help to reduce interference in multi-robot domains. The types of tasks that the agents are asked to solve and the communicative capabilities of the agents significantly affect the way roles are used in cooperative multi-agent systems. Along with a discussion of these issues about roles in multi-agent systems, this article compares computational models of the role allocation problem, presents the notion of explicitly versus implicitly defined roles, gives a survey of the methods used to approach role allocation problems, and concludes with a list of open research questions related to roles in multi-agent systems