This agent-based approach has two distinctive aspects with respect to other works: the integration of strategic decisions(accept or reject new projects) and operative aspects (resource allocation), and the ability to manage resource flexibility. This allows mangers to study the advisability of increasing the flexibility of resources.
The next section introduces the role of agent-based modeling and simulation in project scheduling. Section 3 presents the MAS for the real-time scheduling problem, which has been specified with an agent-oriented modeling language, INGENIAS [10]. This has been the basis for implementing a simulation, which is described in section 4, and whose results are discussed in section 5. Finally, section 6 presents main conclusions of using this agent-based modeling and simulation approach.