A Co-Evolutionary Contract Net-Based Framework for Distributed Manufacturing Execution Systems

Abstract:

A manufacturing execution system (MES) is the information system of a process which actively collects processes and analyses the materials, semi-finished goods, finished goods, machine time, cost etc. on the production site in real time and monitors work in progress (WIP). In this work we present a service recommender system for active services according to service requestors’ goal in manufacturing execution system -workflows. The system is modeled as a multi-agent environment where clients and service agents negotiate using a Co-evolutionary Contract-Net (CeCN).It will improve the MES performance and capability and operating costs significantly.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 142)
• Pages: 6-10
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.142.6
• Online since: October 2010
• Authors: R. Wang
• Keywords: Contract-Net, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Multi-Agent (MA), Workflow

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