Stigmergy-based software toolkit for virtual enterprises

Authors:
Ralf Fabian;Sorin Plesca
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Sciences and Business Informatics, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania;Department of Computer Sciences and Business Informatics, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
Venue:
ICCOMP'07 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computers
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper aims at illustrating how a stigmergic approach can easily improve the speed and the stability of a planning process in an agile production environment. Adapting the collective behaviour of ant colonies to a stigmergic cooperation mechanism, logistically improved by a communication agent and a realistic environment, translates into powering the manufacturing resources in solving the production process. In the framework described below every ant agent takes care of one piece of work/task. Following the pattern available for a product, the ant colony first plans the way between raw material to final product and then follows the execution, dealing with unexpected situations. By using the same environment in planning and in tracing the products, it is kept up to date and also is the planning.