Paper Info
Title
A soft computing approach for task contracting in multi-agent manufacturing control
Abstract
This paper describes a new task-contracting schema for multi-agent manufacturing control based on soft computing. It aims to apply fuzzy techniques to implement a real-time multi-criteria task-contracting mechanism for part flow control in manufacturing floor. For comparison purposes, the paper also considers other recently proposed evolutionary strategies to adapt and optimize agents' decision parameters to the changing conditions of the manufacturing floor. All the considered approaches are compared on a detailed simulation model of a hypothetical manufacturing system that was recently proposed in literature as benchmark for multi-agent control systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S0166-3615(03)00127-1
Computers in Industry
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Dispatching,comparison purpose,task contracting,Soft computing,Manufacturing systems,soft computing approach,detailed simulation model,multi-agent manufacturing control,evolutionary strategy,multi-agent control system,decision parameter,part flow control,Multi-agent systems,hypothetical manufacturing system,manufacturing floor,new task-contracting schema
Journal
52
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
Computers in Industry
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.08
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guido Maione15412.37
David Naso217514.50