Title :
Agent-oriented distributed scheduling systems based on DCOM: an application to flexible scheduling systems
Author :
Hu, Zhao ; Guangwu, Liu ; Jin, Xu ; Rui, Li
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Control Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hubei, China
Abstract :
This paper presents a DCOM-based framework for design of distributed scheduling systems and its application to flexible flow shop scheduling systems. We model two kinds of agents for each shop: scheduling agent and communication agent. The communication agent communicates with related agents dynamically on DCOM. It reasons environment encountered and recommends adaptive scheduling algorithm to the scheduling agent, and also announces the inside situation and requires the cooperation from related agents. An application of flow shop is presented to the validity of the proposed method that exhibits attractive performances in terms of autonomy and collaboration.
Keywords :
client-server systems; flow shop scheduling; multi-agent systems; agent-oriented distributed scheduling systems; client-server based framework; communication agent; distributed component object model; flexible flow shop scheduling systems; scheduling agent; Assembly systems; Control systems; Dynamic scheduling; Flexible manufacturing systems; Job shop scheduling; Local area networks; Object oriented modeling; Partial response channels; Process design; Processor scheduling;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2004. WCICA 2004. Fifth World Congress on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8273-0
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2004.1343064