| Article ID: | iaor19972297 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 23 |
| End Page Number: | 29 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
| Journal: | OR Spektrum |
| Authors: | Ziegler H., Holthaus O. |
In this paper a new coordination approach for decentralized job shop scheduling rules is presented and analyzed in a simulation study. The coordination is based on look ahead information and contains a mechanism for demanding and supplying jobs. The simulation experiments show that the performance of conventional scheduling rules is significantly improved using the coordination mechanism.