Fine-tuning negotiation time in multi-agent manufacturing systems
Document Type
Book chapter
Source Publication
IAENG transactions on engineering technologies : special volume of the World Congress on Engineering 2012
Edition
Gi-Chul Yang, Sio-long Ao, Len Gelman
Publication Date
1-1-2013
First Page
725
Last Page
738
Publisher
Springer
Keywords
Cycle time, Multi-agent systems, Negotiation protocol, Performance, Simulation, Work-in-progress
Abstract
Global market competition has put intense pressure on the manufacturing industry to become more agile and responsive to market changes. Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a decentralised control architecture that can reduce complexity, increase flexibility, and enhance fault tolerance for manufacturing systems. Shop floor control applications can be designed based on the paradigm of agent negotiation. This often involves the contract net protocol (CNP) and previous research has suggested that the timing parameters of CNP can affect significantly the performance of agent negotiation. This chapter discusses the combinatorial variations of these parameters using a discrete-event simulation case study.
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-6190-2_55
Publisher Statement
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Additional Information
ISBN of the source publication: 9789400761896
Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Yeung, W. L. (2013). Fine-tuning negotiation time in multi-agent manufacturing systems. In G.-C. Yang, S.-l. Ao & L. Gelman (Eds.), IAENG transactions on engineering technologies: Special volume of the World Congress on Engineering 2012 (pp. 725-738). Dordrecht: Springer.