Title :
Distributed manufacturing scheduling using a novel cooperative system
Author :
Zhou, R. ; Chen, G. ; Yang, Z.H. ; Zhang, J.B.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
The problem of manufacturing scheduling is crucial but difficult due to its computational demands. Many general-purpose meta-heuristics or multi-agent scheduling systems with social- or natural-inspired protocols for agent interacting or decision making have been widely adopted to provide optimal or suboptimal solutions. In this paper, more relevant rules are found from the known optimal solutions of a classic manufacturing scheduling problem and used to build a novel cooperative system, which can find optimal/near-optimal solutions within a reasonable computational time by employing those rules.
Keywords :
decision making; manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; optimisation; production engineering computing; scheduling; cooperative system; decision making; distributed manufacturing scheduling; multi-agent scheduling systems; Computer aided manufacturing; Concurrent computing; Cooperative systems; Decision making; Distributed computing; Job shop scheduling; Multiagent systems; Processor scheduling; Proposals; Protocols; cooperative system; decision-making; distributed algorithms; manufacturing scheduling;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2008. IEEE/SOLI 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2012-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2013-1
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2008.4686401
