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Making a production system readily reconfigurable in a bid to adapt to very fluid demand profile is pertinent to cost reduction and facility utilization objectives of the system. We consider a production scheduling methodology based on federated agent architecture designed for a flexible job shop with dynamic demand. The interaction protocol within the social network is based on a facilitated auction mechanism. This model employs competition at job centers to maximize financial returns and uses cooperation among facilitator agents to minimize weighted tardiness.
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Opadiji, J.F., Kaihara, T. (2007). Distributed Production Scheduling Using Federated Agent Architecture. In: MaÅ™Ãk, V., Vyatkin, V., Colombo, A.W. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_19
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