Abstract

This paper deals with a new architecture and negotiation protocol for the dynamic scheduling of manufacturing systems. The architecture is based on two paradigms: multi-agent systems and holonic systems. The main contribution in the architecture is the existence of holons representing tasks together with holons representing resources. The well-known contract net protocol has been adapted to handle temporal constraints and to deal with conflicts. It also deals with conflict situations, namely with the case of the ‘indecision problem’. This approach assumes that deadlines are the most important constraints to consider.

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