Abstract
In a holonic manufacturing execution system, operations assignment and scheduling can be decided in real time by automatic negotiation between order holons and resource holons. Negotiation is used to conciliate the goals pursued by the software agents who constitute the control part of the holons. This paper proposes mathematical criteria to represent the agents’ goals, a game theoretic approach to analyze the possible outcomes of the negotiation process, and a Petri net model to represent the interaction protocols between order and resource agents. This model is analyzed in view of verifying the required properties of the protocol. In particular, certain conditions are proposed under which the following requirements are verified: no-blocking, selection of exactly one resource for each order, protocol termination in a bounded time.
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