Research on manufacturing resource discovery and scheduling in manufacturing grid

Abstract

The significant goal of Manufacturing Grid (MG) is to realize resource sharing and collaboration working among the heterogeneous and geographical distributed manufacturing resources. A TQPS (Time, Quality, Price, Service) -based resource discovery and scheduling algorithm is proposed in the paper. By the four processes of resource discovery, resource scheduling, dynamic negotiation and resource reservation, the optimal resource can be discovered and matched to the task/subtask. Under the precondition of assuring the Quality of Service (QoS), the searching and scheduling algorithm facilitates the realization for the resource discovery and scheduling. © 2006 International Federation for Information Processing.