A Multi-Agent System for Resource Allocation to Education Programmes in Higher Education Institutions

Universities are often facing with the problem of resource allocation to the education Programmes they provide. The paper presents a multi-agent based solution, which is developed for a big Romanian university, delivering hundreds of programmes every year. The multi-agent system receives inquiries for different resources and performs a transparent negotiation process between programmes and the resources managers, in order to find a good solution for the resources allocation problem. There is also taken into account a predefined set of criteria, which have to be fulfilled in order to allocate the resources. Finally, the solution is tested by several people. Their opinions were the subject of a questionnaire. This paper provides evidence that a multi-agent system based solution can be appropriate to solving the resource allocation problem. The findings call for further specification and more resources may be used to develop the system.

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Multi-agent systems ； Negotiation process ； Resource allocation problem ； Petri networks

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