Proposal of multi-agent based model for dynamic scheduling in manufacturing

Authors:
Ana Madureira;Joaquim Santos
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Group, Porto, Portugal;Computer Science Department, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Group, Porto, Portugal
Venue:
EC'05 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Evolutionary computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Some recent trends in manufacturing in particular and business in general, lead to new approaches regarding the organisation and software architecture, mainly adopting distributed solutions. Such organisations imply organisational and technological evolution through agility, distribution, decentralisation, reactivity and flexibility. New organisational and technological paradigms are needed in order to reply to the modern manufacturing systems challenges. The Multi-Agent paradigm represents one of the most promising approaches to build complex, flexible, and cost-effective scheduling systems because of its distributed and dynamic nature. Modelling the Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems by means of two technologies like Meta-Heuristics and Multi-Agent Systems seems to be an interesting way to see Industrial Systems in the future. A multi-agent based model for support dynamic scheduling in manufacturing environments is proposed.