Collaboration and adaptation in scheduling

Abstract

Scheduling is a multi-criteria decision problem in practice, where different schedulers may agree on key objectives but differ greatly on their relative importance in a particular situation. This kind of problems can be tackled with Collaborative approaches, which is the aim of this work. Collaboration supports work being undertaken by dispersed entities allowing the sharing of final results and also the process of obtaining them. This involve a range of activities such as information exchanging, knowledge sharing, argumentation, problem solving strategies, role playing, group mediation, individual training and conflict resolution, among other. Here, we propose a Collaborative framework with an Adaptive behaviour to be used in Manufacturing Scheduling Environments. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.