Team-work based architecture for distributed manufacturing scheduling

Authors:
Ana Madureira;Nuno Gomes;Joaquim Santos
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, GECAD, Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Group, Porto, Portugal;Computer Science Department, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, GECAD, Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Group, Porto, Portugal;Computer Science Department, Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto, GECAD, Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Group, Porto, Portugal
Venue:
SMO'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Optimization
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a Team-Work based architecture for Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search. We consider that a good global solution for a scheduling problem may emerge from a community of machine agents solving locally their schedules and cooperating with other machine agents. Social aspects are considered when a community of autonomous agents cooperate to reach a common goal. Agents negotiate in a cooperative way, in order to find a consistent overall plan, while avoiding significant changes onto their current best possible local plans. A cooperative negotiation mechanism is proposed.