| Article ID: | iaor1998740 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 539 |
| End Page Number: | 549 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1997 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
| Authors: | Ziegler H., Holthaus Oliver |
In this paper a new coordination approach for decentralized job shop scheduling rules is presented and analysed in a simulation study. The coordination is based on look ahead information and contains a mechanism for demanding and supplying jobs. The simulation experiment shows that the performance of conventional scheduling rules is significantly improved using the coordination mechanism.