Tihamer T Toth-Fejel 2000 Nanotechnology 11 133 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/11/2/315
Tihamer T Toth-Fejel1
Show affiliationsNanoscale assemblers will need robust, scalable, flexible, and well-understood mechanisms such as software agents to control them. This paper discusses assemblers and agents, and proposes a taxonomy of their possible interaction. Molecular assembly is seen as a special case of general assembly, subject to many of the same issues, such as the advantages of convergent assembly, and the problem of scheduling. This paper discusses the contract net architecture of ANTS, an agent-based scheduling application under development. It also describes an algorithm for least commitment scheduling, which uses probabilistic committed capacity profiles of resources over time, along with realistic costs, to provide an abstract search space over which the agents can wander to quickly find optimal solutions.
Issue 2 (June 2000)
Received 6 March 2000
Tihamer T Toth-Fejel 2000 Nanotechnology 11 133
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