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Scheduling, Re-scheduling and Communication in the Multi-agent Extended Enterprise Environment
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Scheduling, Re-scheduling and Communication in the Multi-agent Extended Enterprise Environment
Joaquim Reis2 and Nuno Mamede3 
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ISCTE, Dept., Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação, Avenida das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal |
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IST, Dept., de Engenharia Informática, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal |
Abstract
In this article we describe a multi-agent dynamic scheduling environment where autonomous agents represent enterprises and
manage the capacity of individual macro-resources in a production-distribution context. The agents are linked by client-supplier
relationships and inter-agent communication must take place. The model of the environment, the appropriate agent interaction
protocol and a cooperative scheduling approach, emphasizing a temporal scheduling perspective of scheduling problems, are
described. The scheduling approach is based on a coordination mechanism supported by the interchange of certain temporal information
among pairs of client-supplier agents involved. This information allows the agents to locally perceive hard global temporal
constraints and recognize non over-constrained problems and, in this case, rule out non temporally-feasible solutions and
establish an initial solution. The same kind of information is then used to guide re-scheduling to repair the initial solution
and converge to a final one.
Keywords Scheduling - Multi-Agent Systems - Supply-Chain Management
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