Market-based negotiation model for employment-driven distributed production scheduling

The up-to-date market dynamics and decentralization have brought about the needs for agile production control and distributed decision making. Thus, an efficient and effective approach to coordination of distributed and dynamic decision entities is required. In this paper, a dynamic production control framework for distributed production systems is addressed by adopting a market-based negotiation approach, which is a promising approach compatible with the requirement. In the framework, production control is regarded as a continuous procedure of making employment contracts between production resources. In particular, a negotiation model for dynamic distributed scheduling is presented, including the internal decision models of principal entities, employer and employee.