Performance of Time-Bound Negotiation in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control

Wing Lok YEUNG

Performance of Time-Bound Negotiation in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control

Wing Lok YEUNG

Department of Computing and Decision Sciences

Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Conference paper (refereed) › Research › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Agent-based software technology plays an impor- tant role in the manufacturing industry for achieving agility. Shop floor control applications can be designed based on the paradigm of agent negotiation to cope with variabilities and disturbances in the production environment. 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 work extends our knowledge in this area of research by considering the performance effects of the combinatorial variations of these parameters in a discrete-event simulation case study. The results provide not only a deeper understanding of the time-bound agent negotiation process, but also insights into the performance fine-tuning of CNP-based control schemes.c

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2012 Vol III
Publisher	International Association of Engineers
ISBN (Print)	9789881925220
Publication status	Published - Jul 2012
Event	The 2012 International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management - United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jul 2012 → 6 Jul 2012

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
Publisher	International Association of Engineers
ISSN (Print)	2078-0958
ISSN (Electronic)	2078-0966

Conference

Conference	The 2012 International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	4/07/12 → 6/07/12
Other	International Association of Engineers (IAENG)

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Keywords

multi-agent systems
negotiation protocol
sim- ulation
work-in-progress
cycle time

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Performance of Time-Bound Negotiation in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control

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