JINI-based design for dynamic scheduling decision system

In view of the development of networked manufacturing, resources scheduling in modern enterprises is not only confined in a work shop, but also refers to allocation and dispatching in an extended region. According to the implementation specialty of cross-platform system distributed in an extended region, objects involved during scheduling are expressed as various entities of agents. Based upon dynamic scheduling strategy of contract net protocol, the work flow of knowledge-based dynamic scheduling decision system is analyzed; requirements of system functions are summarized, and divided into 4 implementation modules. On this basis, the implementation architecture of knowledge-based dynamic scheduling decision system is constructed with the technology of JINI, and some key components of software entities in system are described in details.