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Lagrangian Relaxation Realised in the NgMPPS Multi Actor Architecture

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Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2017)

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In the research project (Next-Generation Multi-Purpose Production Systems - Distributed Production Control) a distributed, actor-based system has been realised, that uses Lagrangian Relaxation for optimising Flexible Job Shop Scheduling with Transport Times (FJSSTT) problems. The design of the architecture builds on the actor model. This design allows to combine operations research with distributed computing and is driven by the mathematical formulation of the Lagrange Relaxation approach. Runtime experiments with the initial implementation of the architecture have been done. The performance of the multi actor-based implementation is compared to other approaches finding solutions to the \(\mathcal {NP}\)-hard FJSSTT problem.

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    https://www.profactor.at/en/research/industrial-assistive-systems/distributed-information-systems/.

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The research leading to these results is funded by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology www.bmvit.gv.at through the project : Next-Generation Multi-Purpose Production Systems – Decentralised production control based on distributed optimisation.

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Weichhart, G., Hämmerle, A. (2017). Lagrangian Relaxation Realised in the NgMPPS Multi Actor Architecture. In: Berndt, J., Petta, P., Unland, R. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10413. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64798-2_9

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