| Article ID: | iaor20043029 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 3 |
| End Page Number: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| Authors: | Trentesaux Damien |
| Keywords: | artificial intelligence: decision support, decision theory: multiple criteria |
A decision support system (DSS) for dynamic task allocation in a distributed structure for flexible manufacturing systems has been developed in the LAMIH laboratory. An entity of the manufacturing system is considered as an autonomous agent, called Integrated Management Station (IMS), able to co-operate with other agents to achieve a global production program. Co-operation is performed by exchanging messages among the different agents. The characteristics of a DSS that supports multi-criteria algorithms and sensitivity tests are presented. This DSS is integrated to each decision system of every IMS. It aims at allocating tasks in a dynamic way by proposing to the human operator a selection of possible resources.