Preference Based Scheduling for an HMS Environment

  • S. Misbah Deen
  • Rashid Jayousi
Conference paper
Part of the IFIP International Federation for Information Processing book series (IFIPAICT, volume 159)

Abstract

This paper presents a model for preference-based multi-agent scheduling suitable for Holonic Manufacturing Systems in which holons can cooperate in producing a satisfactory global schedule. The goodness of the scheduling model has been verified by a theoretical behaviour model and confirmed by simulation, using a number of Assembler holons as the scheduler agents of manufacturing tasks. The result of this study, which we found to be satisfactory, has been presented in the paper.

Keywords

Schedule Model Offer Price Preference Loss Global Task Total Preference 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • S. Misbah Deen
    • 1
  • Rashid Jayousi
    • 2
  1. 1.DAKE Group, Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of KeeleKeele, StaffsEngland
  2. 2.Computer Science DepartmentAlQuds UniversityJerusalemIsrael

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