REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS

This article concentrated on a university example involving a professor, student, and secretary. The example can be generalized to any scheduling problem involving two or more schedules that are controlled by different people or agents. For example, before the registrar's office can schedule the final exams, they must consult and coordinate with the department heads, the university's time window for offering exams, individual professors that may be travelling for research purposes during the exam period, student course loads (e.g., no more than two exams in one day for each student), and so forth.

Another application is the execution of multi-agent plans. Assume the plans have been generated. Each agent must execute its own plan in an environment which may or may not require cooperation, but at least requires co-ordination between agents. Before execution begins, the system can be used to determine a deadlock free sequence of actions for each agent.