Proposal of Multi-Agent based Model for Dynamic Scheduling in Manufacturing

Some recent trends in manufacturing in particular and business in general, lead to new approaches
regarding the organisation and software architecture, mainly adopting distributed solutions. Such organisations
imply organisational and technological evolution through agility, distribution, decentralisation, reactivity and
flexibility. New organisational and technological paradigms are needed in order to reply to the modern
manufacturing systems challenges. The Multi-Agent paradigm represents one of the most promising approaches
to build complex, flexible, and cost-effective scheduling systems because of its distributed and dynamic nature.
Modelling the Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems by means of two technologies like Meta-Heuristics and
Multi-Agent Systems seems to be an interesting way to see Industrial Systems in the future. A multi-agent based
model for support dynamic scheduling in manufacturing environments is proposed.