Conflict detection and resolution for goal formation in the fractal manufacturing system
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- Title
- Conflict detection and resolution for goal formation in the fractal manufacturing system
- Author
- Shin, M; Cha, Y; Ryu, K; Jung, Mooyoung
- Issue Date
- 2006-02
- Publisher
- TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH, v.44, no.3, pp.447 - 465
- Abstract
- The fractal manufacturing system (FrMS) is based on the concept of autonomously cooperating agents referred to as fractals. A fractal is a set of self-similar agents whose goal can be achieved through cooperation, coordination, and negotiation among the agents for themselves. A fractal has fractal-specific characteristics (e.g. self-similarity, self-organization, self-optimization, goal-orientation, and dynamics), and it also has the characteristics of an agent (e.g. autonomy, mobility, intelligence, cooperation, and adaptability) at the same time. In the FrMS, a goal can be regarded as the status which the system aspires to be in. The goal-formation process (GFP) in the FrMS is a process of generating goals and modifying them by coordination between agents. In the GFP, conflicts may occur between goals, which can drive a system to become inefficient. In this paper, a conflict resolution mechanism via agent-based negotiation is proposed for facilitating the GFP. The scheme deals with non-fixed goals. The mobile agent-based negotiation process (MANPro), in which a mobile agent is used for information-exchanging and problem-solving, is used for negotiations in this scheme. The proposed mechanism is illustrated with a goal formation scenario in an exemplary FrMS.
- URI
- https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/5885
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=30844456845
- DOI
- 10.1080/00207540500142845
- ISSN
- 0020-7543
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- SME_Journal Papers
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