Title: Adaptive Dynamic Scheduling In
Agent
Based Manufacturing Environment: A Budget Approach
Abstract: Competition
is made in an environment characterised by significant market shifting,
rapid
development and introduction new technologies and global competition
with
the focus towards customer need. In order to play in such an
environment,
enterprises need to build reactive and agile manufacturing systems
capable
of adapting to the variable conditions (internal or external) of the
manufacturing
systems. Agent based manufacturing systems have demonstrated their
ability
to be very agile and reactive. The focus of this paper is on the
decision-making
strategies in order to keepan adequate level of system performance.
This
paper proposes an innovative decision making strategy for autonomous
agents
in a cellular manufacturing environment by a budget assigned to each
part
in order to purchase a manufacturing cell services. The budget manages
as
a market like approach among agents to coordination the multi agent
system.
Authors: Paolo
Renna and Rocco Padalino