Multi-agent approach for planning and scheduling of integrated steel processes

In this paper, we proposed a multi-agent system for planning and scheduling of the integrated steel processes, which is an extremely complex task requiring the consideration of numerous constraints and objectives. The system is implemented using the agent based Asynchronous Team (A-Team) architecture in which multiple solution methods cooperate by evolving shared population of solution. Each process in the integrated production environment is assigned to an agent, which performs, independently its scheduling at a local level by using its sub-agent: construction agents, improvement agents and destruction agents.