Developing a multi-agent system for dynamic scheduling trough AOSE perspective

Abstract

Agent-based computing can be considered as a new general purpose paradigm for software development, which tends to radically influence the way a software system is conceived and developed, and which calls for new agent specific software engineering approaches. This paper presents an architecture for distributed manufacturing scheduling and follows Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) guidelines trough specification defined by Ingenias methodology. This architecture is based on a Multi-Agent System (MAS) composed by a set of autonomous agents that cooperates in order to accomplish a good global solution. © 2007 Springer.