Authors:
Luís Reis
;
Ana Paula Rocha
and
Antonio J. M. Castro
Affiliation:
University of Porto, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Electronic Market, Multi-agent Systems, Negotiation, Case-Based Reasoning, Air Transport, Disruption
Management, Flight Disruption, Irregular Operations, Recovery Process.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Cooperation and Coordination
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The Airline Operations Control Center (AOCC) has the responsibility to ensure that flights meet their planned
schedule or, if any problem arises, to find a viable solution that minimizes both the impact in the operational
plan and its cost. The high cost of resources involved in this process (aircraft and crew members) leads to a lack
of additional resources from the airline companies, implying a restricted solution space. Here, we propose an
electronic market modeled as a multi-agent system where airline companies can negotiate and lease each other
the required resources when solving a disruption problem, thus expanding their solution space. The proposed
negotiation occurs in several rounds, where qualitative comments made by the buyer agent on proposals sent by
the sellers enables these to learn how to calculate new proposals, using a case-based reasoning methodology.