Multi-Agent Based Framework for Dynamic Scheduling System

Communication burden and security are important for agent-based scheduling architectures in uncertain and dynamic scheduling environments, which have not yet been fully solved in traditional architectures. In this paper, a multi-agent based framework is established. Contract Network Protocol is combined with Marked-based negotiation protocol to get a trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency. A registration mechanism is given to reduce the communication burden. Digital Signature is adopted to enhance the security. As well, XML is integrated with KQML to improve the interoperability. Compared with the existing methods, the proposed one is not only securer in data exchanging but also more effective for dynamic scheduling problems.