Table 1 Data types accessed by different agents from the environment agent in the multi-agent delivery system.

From: Optimizing on-demand food delivery with BDI-based multi-agent systems and Monte Carlo tree search scheduling

Agent

Information sensed from the environment

Platform

Orders not currently allocated

Rider’s location and orders for that rider

Rider

Orders assigned

Shop location

Customer location

Shop

Unfinished orders

Customer

Shop information