A multicriteria decision support system for dynamic task allocation in a distributed production activity control structure

Abstract

A decision support system DSS for dynamic task allocation in a distributed structure for flexible manufacturing systems FMS 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 MC algorithms and sensitivity tests is 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.