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[xueyue]

Once an object is created, it can be scheduled when and what actions should
be executed, and also these actions can be terminated at a given time.
Here my question is: can we dynamically schedule an agent's activities?
For example, suppose an agent's activities will take place during a time
space [t1 t2], and during other time, the agent is doing nothing. If t1
and t2 are fixed, the activities can be scheduled at initial time, however,
if t1 and t2 vary
day by day, how do solve the problem?  To answer this question,
we need: (1) the agent itself is able
to schedule its own activities, (2) the agent can send
schedules to a top level swarm in which all agents'
schedules exists, (3) the agent is able to request the top level swarm
to cancel its old schedules and put new schedules into it. In this way,
the agent's schedule is dynamical and when the agen does not have any activities
during a time period, the top level do not need to look at the agent until
the sleeping time is finished.  Hence, the computational time can
be greatly reduced in some simulation system where each agent is only active
in  a short period in each day.
There might be answers to my questions, if anyone knows, please kindly
let me know.
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Dr Xueyue Huang
Center for Transport Studies
Imperial College 
London SW7 2BU

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