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Title:
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MULTI-AGENT COOPERATIVE SCHEDULING AND RE-SCHEDULING IN THE SUPPLY-CHAIN (A SHORT VERSION) |
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Author(s):
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Joaquim Reis |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-19-4 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Inmaculada J. Martínez |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Scheduling, Multi-Agent Systems, Supply-Chain Management. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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288 |
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Last Page:
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293 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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We present an approach to multi-agent cooperative supply-chain production-distribution scheduling. The approach emphasises a scheduling temporal perspective, it is based on a set of three steps each agent must perform, in which the agents communicate through an interaction protocol, and presupposes the sharing of some specific temporal information (among other) about the scheduling problem, for coordination. It allows the set of agents involved to conclude if a given scheduling problem has, or has not, any feasible solutions. In the first case, agent actions are prescribed to repair a first solution, if it contains constraint violations. The resulting overall agent scheduling behaviour is cooperative. |
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