The architecture and negotiation protocol for the dynamic scheduling of manufacturing orders was already described in [Sousa e Ramos-1998]. Here a community of holons representing Tasks and Resources establish a negotiation to accomplish the fulfilment of the tasks in the correct deadline and obeying other kinds of restrictions (e.g., quality, cost, , etc.)(Figure 2).
Figura 2 - Scheduling Holarchy
| [Sousa e Ramos-1998] | Sousa, P. and Ramos, C. (1998) A Distributed Architecture and Negotiation Protocol for Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing - special issue on Agent-based Manufacturing, vol. 9 n.º 2, pp. 107-112, April 1998. Chapman & Hall. ISSN 0956-5515. |
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