A CIM application of a multi-agent system

The paper consists of three parts. In the first one it introduces some general remarks on multi-agent technology, in the second one the modular kit of multiagent systems developed in the Gerstner Lab is introduced. Finally, the third part describes a case study of a capacity planning task and its particular solution. The application consists of four basic agents developed at the Gerstner Lab of the Czech Technical University in Prague. They are playing four different roles as transaction management, on-line planning, off-line planning and off-line messaging. The development has been supported by the EUROSAT project No. 9645 of the European Comission's PECO programme. The designed solution was tested during the 2 days long simulation game which took place in October 1996. During the game the system was running at the Technical University of Madrid and the partners from other five universities from five European countries entered their orders into the system through the Internet. The correctness, robustness of the chosen solution and the efficiency comparison of the Internet versus private VSAT interconnection was evaluated within this experiment.