Title :
Negotiation among scheduling agents to achieve global production goals
Author :
Lathon, Ruby D. ; Claassen, Arne F. ; Rochowiak, Daniel M. ; Interrante, Leslie D.
Author_Institution :
Intell. Syst. Lab., Alabama Univ., Huntsville, AL, USA
Abstract :
Describes an architecture which is intended to model subsystem interactions in manufacturing such that shop floor contingencies can be appropriately handled by an intelligent scheduling system. The authors´ approach emphasizes local goal maintenance through negotiation to achieve global production goals. Further work includes continued development of additional subsystem agents in the manufacturing scheduling system and empirical studies regarding the effect of changing an AGV strategy in midproduction
Keywords :
cooperative systems; production control; global production goals; intelligent scheduling system; local goal maintenance; negotiation; scheduling agents; shop floor contingencies; Dynamic scheduling; Government; Intelligent manufacturing systems; Job shop scheduling; Laboratories; Manufacturing systems; Materials handling; Modems; Production; Production systems; Pulp manufacturing; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1994. Humans, Information and Technology., 1994 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2129-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1994.400066
