Adaptive scheduling based on self-organized holonic swarm of schedulers

Scheduling plays an important role in the companies’ competiveness, dealing with complex combinatorial problems subject to uncertainty and emergence. In particular, in the ramp-up phase of small lot-sizes of complex products, scheduling is more demanding, e.g. due to late requests and immature techn...

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Main Author: Leitão, Paulo (author)
Other Authors: Barbosa, José (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/13849
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/13849
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Summary:Scheduling plays an important role in the companies’ competiveness, dealing with complex combinatorial problems subject to uncertainty and emergence. In particular, in the ramp-up phase of small lot-sizes of complex products, scheduling is more demanding, e.g. due to late requests and immature technology products and processes. This paper presents the principles of a distributed scheduling architecture based on holonic and swarm principles and implemented using multi-agent system technology. In particular, it is described the coordination among the network of the swarm of schedulers and analysed the impact of embedded self-organization mechanisms.