Abstract
Face to strong competitive market, current companies tend to new methods of production, switching from a logic of ≪projected planning≫ to a logic of “Just in time”. In this context, the system that allows controlling the production has to be a modular, flexible and reactive system. The hierarchized and classical approaches don’t permit any more to take into account the complexity linked to such a system. That’s why, we propose an approach, which has reactive, distributive, and emergent properties to control the system of production, based on multi-agent system principles. After having introduced the context and reasoning work, we describe the different parts of our multi-agent model. Lastly, we illustrate this approach on a practical example of production cell.
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Tchikou, M., Gouardères, E. (2003). Multi-agent Model to Control Production System: A Reactive and Emergent Approach by Cooperation and Competition between Agents. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Kowalczyk, R., Müller, J.P., Tianfield, H., Unland, R. (eds) Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36559-1_24
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