Manufacturing control with a market-driven contract net
Manufacturing control with a market-driven contract net
Scheduling in job shops with machine breakdowns: an experimental study
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
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On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
An agent model for incentive-based production scheduling
Computers in Industry - Special issue on intelligent manufacturing systems
Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling Using Intelligent Agents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Agent-Based Approach to Dynamic Task Allocation
ANTS '02 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ant Algorithms
Some Economics of Market-Based Distributed Scheduling
ICDCS '98 Proceedings of the The 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Ant Colony Control for Autonomous Decentralized Shop Floor Routing
ISADS '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
Multi-agent coordination and control using stigmergy
Computers in Industry
Wasp-like Agents for Distributed Factory Coordination
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Operations Research
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Modelling Shortest Path Search Techniques by Colonies of Cooperating Agents
ICCCI '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
Applications of agent-based models for optimization problems: A literature review
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Pheromone-based coordination for manufacturing system control
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Intelligent Decision Technologies
The effect of load on agent-based algorithms for distributed task allocation
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Self-Optimization module for Scheduling using Case-based Reasoning
Applied Soft Computing
Production Scheduling in an Agile Agent-Based Production Grid
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Multi-agent approach to distributed ant colony optimization
Science of Computer Programming
A holonic approach to flexible flow shop scheduling under stochastic processing times
Computers and Operations Research
A classification scheme for agent based approaches to dynamic optimization
Artificial Intelligence Review
Mining association rules with single and multi-objective grammar guided ant programming
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
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This study aims at building an efficient agent-based dynamic scheduling for real-world manufacturing systems with various products, processes, and disturbances. Ant colony intelligence (ACI) is proposed to be combined with local agent coordination so as to make autonomous agents adaptive to changing circumstances and to give rise to efficient global performance. The work here differs from other dynamic scheduling research in two areas: (1) a more generic and realistic manufacturing model with multiple product types, multiple/parallel multi-purpose machines with sequence-dependent setup constraints, and various dynamic disturbances is used, (2) ACI integrated with both machine agents and job agents to solve not only the task allocation problem, but also the task sequencing problem. The implementation of the aforementioned issues in a multi-agent system (MAS) is discussed. Simulation results show that, for most of the performance measures, a MAS integrated with well-designed ant-inspired coordination performs well compared to a MAS using dispatching rules.