AgentTime: A Distributed Multi-agent Software System for University’s Timetabling

Abstract

In the course of researching distributed timetabling problems this ar- ticle applies the multi-agent paradigm of computations and presents a corre- spondent mathematical model for university’s timetabling problem solution. The model takes into account dynamic nature of this problem and individual preferences of different remote users for time and location of classes. In the framework of that model authors propose an original problem-oriented algo- rithm of multi-agent communication. Developed algorithm is used as a founda- tion for the distributed software system AgentTime. Based on multi-agent JADE platform AgentTime provides friendly graphical interface for online de- sign of time tables for universities.