Nonhierarchical control of manufacturing systems

Agent-based supply-chain planning in the forest products industry

“…This feature tends to facilitate implementation which thus consists of mapping real elements of manufacturing systems (e.g., orders, resources, products) with predefined building blocks. However, other approaches, such as that of Barber et al (1999), propose a Valckenaers et al (1999) Holonic architecture using the path-planning approach of ant colonies to flow-shop scheduling Caridi and Sianesi (2000) Mixed-model assembly line sequencing through optimization, heuristics, and agent-based techniques Job-shop manufacturing control Shaw (1987a, b) Distributed scheduling of a cellular manufacturing system using a bidding scheme Duffie and Piper (1986) Bidding-based approach for heterarchical control of a flexible machining cell Sycara et al (1991a, b) Distributed scheduling using the concept of texture to guide decision making and focus agents' attention to globally critical aspects of decisions Lin and Solberg (1992) Heterarchical market-like approach to shop-floor control using bidding schemes Hadavi et al (1992) Function-oriented architecture (as opposed to task or resource-oriented agent architecture) Villa et al (1994) Contract-net allocation of task to resources Prabhu (1994, 1996) Real-time distributed scheduling in heterarchical manufacturing cell using feedback control from a simulated replica of the cell Tharumarajah and Wells (1997) Behavior-based approach to collaboration in a heterarchical shop-floor control environment Liu and Sycara (1997) Advanced inter-agent negotiation schemes based on a disparity in the problem structure Kutanoglu and Wu (1999) Lagrangian relaxation of the job-shop scheduling problem adapted into a combinatorial auction mechanism Sousa and Ramos (1999) Contract-net application in a holonic architecture context Parunak et al (2001) Highly distributed approach to production planning based on request-for-quotes and bids Quasi-heterarchical/mediator-oriented architecture using a cascaded bidding-based mechanism Wooldridge et al (1996) Negotiation-based modeling of the product sequencing problem using game and negotiation theories Tool management Tsukada and Shin (1998) Heterarchical architecture using too-manager and taskmanager agents negotiating with each other Flexible-manufacturingsystem scheduling Kouiss et al (1997) Dynamic and local selection of job dispatching rules by agents, guided by global information…”

Operation allocation and part type selection in E-manufacturing: An auction based heuristic supported by agent technology

“…He recognized the requirement for designing behavior rules, local objectives and global objectives, to prevent anarchy. Duffie and Piper [34,35] presented the advantages of the heterarchical control architecture by comparing it with two control systems namely centralized and hierarchical. The main advantages of heterarchical system include reduced complexity, high flexibility, high modularity, reduced software development costs, and improved fault tolerance.…”

Developing manufacturing control software: A survey and critique

“…Cell bidding is based on a priority list of the jobs that can be processed by each cell of the system. The same bidding algorithm is used by Baker (1988) to integrate MRP II and the job shop control of manufacturing systems, by Duffle and Piper (1986) to implement a nonhierarchical control scheme for manufacturing systems, and by Ting (1990) in his proposed cooperative shop floor control model.…”