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A Multi-agent Hybrid Approach to Decision Support in Job Groups Handling

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Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability - The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2015)

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This study deals with scheduling groups of jobs, their arrival and delivery, and individual processing of each of them. All jobs in a group should be delivered at the same time after processing. One of the objectives is to minimize the average delivery time of the group containing that job (waiting period). The new way of modeling and solving the decision problem - a multi-agent hybrid approach is presented. This approach includes the design and implementation of two agent types: MP-agents (Mathematical Programming) and CLP-agents (Constraint Logic Programming). The iterative algorithm for solving the model under dynamic emergence of new orders is also included. This structure enables managers to ask all kinds of questions.

In addition, the paper proposes new functionalities based on the CLP environment and numerical experiments for illustrative examples.

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  1. Department of Control and Management Systems, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland

    Jarosław Wikarek

  2. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Izabela Ewa Nielsen

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  1. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  2. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Kasper Hallenborg

  3. Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University, Poznan, Poland

    Pawel Pawlewski

  4. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Botti

  5. Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Nayat Sánchez-Pi

  6. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, CALDAS, Colombia

    Nestor Darío Duque Méndez

  7. Lab. Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Lisbon, Portugal

    Fernando Lopes

  8. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julian

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Wikarek, J., Nielsen, I.E. (2015). A Multi-agent Hybrid Approach to Decision Support in Job Groups Handling. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability - The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 524. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19033-4_7

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