A Multi Agent Decision Support System for Real Time Scheduling

N. Taghezout, P. Zarate

2007

Abstract

The environment of firms and market requirements necessitates a performance increased by the product flux management in the course of their manufacture. This management plays a certain number of functions among which the scheduling of workshop is taking more and more importance. This article presents an approach which takes into account robustness and flexibility of a real time scheduling, by defining and undertaking an interactive decision support system. We develop a structure of piloting and supervising of distributed and integrated, as well as reactive workshop. Independent modules of piloting in the latter allow organizing resource tasks and adapting generated plans according to disturbances. As support to modeling and decisional system implantation, we propose a multi-agent system. The agent actions of the same hierarchical level become concrete across the analysis and reaction procedures. The decision centers negotiate compromises to solve conflicts, under the control of a supervisor entity.

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Taghezout N. and Zarate P. (2007). A Multi Agent Decision Support System for Real Time Scheduling . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-972-8865-98-6, pages 55-65. DOI: 10.5220/0002420300550065


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csac07,
author={N. Taghezout and P. Zarate},
title={A Multi Agent Decision Support System for Real Time Scheduling},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={55-65},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002420300550065},
isbn={978-972-8865-98-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - A Multi Agent Decision Support System for Real Time Scheduling
SN - 978-972-8865-98-6
AU - Taghezout N.
AU - Zarate P.
PY - 2007
SP - 55
EP - 65
DO - 10.5220/0002420300550065