{"title":"A planning algorithm for distributed manufacturing","authors":"T. Gyires, B. Muthuswamy","doi":"10.1109/ICICIS.1993.291765","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Distributed manufacturing (DM), downsizing, and outsourcing are becoming increasingly popular. Processes in manufacturing a product may be distributed at different sites. A production plan in such environments consists of various subplans, team coordination schedules, and decision making on task-team assignments. We present a distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) approach that enables people and computers to work cooperatively as teams in decision making. Our model is a set of loosely coupled, autonomous, communicating problem solver nodes representing a functional unit such as design, production, testing, and accounting, that participate in planning, group problem solving and negotiation. A heuristic algorithm assigns subplans to sites to optimize costs.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":270352,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1993] Proceedings International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICIS.1993.291765","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Distributed manufacturing (DM), downsizing, and outsourcing are becoming increasingly popular. Processes in manufacturing a product may be distributed at different sites. A production plan in such environments consists of various subplans, team coordination schedules, and decision making on task-team assignments. We present a distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) approach that enables people and computers to work cooperatively as teams in decision making. Our model is a set of loosely coupled, autonomous, communicating problem solver nodes representing a functional unit such as design, production, testing, and accounting, that participate in planning, group problem solving and negotiation. A heuristic algorithm assigns subplans to sites to optimize costs.<>