Dynamic Service Composition of Holonic Virtual Enterprise Processes in Multi-agent Systems
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چکیده
Composition of processes for virtual enterprises is a significant issue. Although the flexible architecture provided by holonic manufacturing system (HMS) paves the way for adaptive composition of virtual enterprise processes, it also poses challenges in planning processes for virtual enterprises. The challenges are due, in part, to the loosely coupled structure of holons and also to the complex interactions among holons. Development of new methodologies is required to optimize the holonic processes in HMS to achieve the objectives. In this paper, we concentrate on the development of method for the composition of holonic enterprises processes. We consider the holonic processes composition (HPC) problem to synthesize processes with minimal costs while meeting the timing constraints in HMS. We propose a two-layer contract net protocol to find the minimal cost solution. We implement a problem solving environment to solve HPC. We illustrate how to apply a multi-layer contract net protocol to find the optimal solution by using an example. Keywords— Contract net, holonic, multi-agent system, Petri net, workflow, virtual enterprise.
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