The Extended Enterprise reference framework

O’Neill, Henrique; Sáckett, Peter

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“…In our work, the specific logistics context of cooperative supply-chain/Extended Enterprise (EE) (O'Neill 1996) is considered. The EE is usually assumed to be a kind of Virtual Organisation, or Virtual Enterprise, where the set of participant agents (enterprises) is relatively stable (for concepts and terminology see pages 3-14 in (Camarinha-Matos 1999); in this last work, other approaches to scheduling in this kind of context can be found).…”

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An Approach to Multi-Agent Cooperative Scheduling in the Supply-Chain, With Examples

Reis¹

2006

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies

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The approach to scheduling presented in this article is applicable to multi-agent cooperative supply-chain production-distribution scheduling problems. The approach emphasises a scheduling temporal perspective, it is based on a set of three steps each agent must perform, in which the agents communicate through an interaction protocol, and presupposes the sharing of some specific temporal information (among other) about the scheduling problem, for coordination. It allows the set of agents involved to conclude if a given scheduling problem has, or has not, any feasible solutions. In the first case, agent actions are prescribed to re-schedule, and so repair, a first solution, if it contains constraint violations. The resulting overall agent scheduling behaviour is cooperative. We also include some results of the application of the approach based on simulations.

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An Approach to Multi-Agent Cooperative Scheduling in the Supply-Chain, With Examples

Reis¹

2006

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies

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“…The problem of scheduling in this kind of environments has had, recently, a more dedicated attention; see [6], [1], [11] or [15], for instance. In this article, the specific logistics context of the supply-chain/Extended Enterprise (EE) [14] is considered, for the short-term activity of scheduling of production-distribution tasks. The EE is usually assumed to be a kind of cooperative Virtual Organization, or Virtual Enterprise, where the set of inter-dependent participant enterprises is relatively stable; for concepts, terminology and classification see [3]; in [4] other approaches to scheduling in this kind of context can be found.…”

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Scheduling, Re-scheduling and Communication in the Multi-agent Extended Enterprise Environment

Reis¹,

Mamede²

2001

Progress in Artificial Intelligence

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Abstract. In this article we describe a multi-agent dynamic scheduling environment where autonomous agents represent enterprises and manage the capacity of individual macro-resources in a production-distribution context. The agents are linked by client-supplier relationships and inter-agent communication must take place. The model of the environment, the appropriate agent interaction protocol and a cooperative scheduling approach, emphasizing a temporal scheduling perspective of scheduling problems, are described. The scheduling approach is based on a coordination mechanism supported by the interchange of certain temporal information among pairs of client-supplier agents involved. This information allows the agents to locally perceive hard global temporal constraints and recognize non over-constrained problems and, in this case, rule out non temporally-feasible solutions and establish an initial solution. The same kind of information is then used to guide re-scheduling to repair the initial solution and converge to a final one.

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“…Developments, particularly the rate-ofchange in the competitive environment, are generating new requirements for manufacturing decision support tools (Sackett et al, 1994). The extended enterprise is being adopted as a means of achieving resilient business operation (O'Neill and Sackett, 1996). In these circumstances doing the right thing is perhaps even more important than doing things right which has been the focus of the 1990s style business process re-engineering (Trisoglio, 1995).…”

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Customizing manufacturing strategy

Sáckett

Maxwell²,

Lowenthal³

1997

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

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Draws on the convergence in enterprise and manufacturing strategies apparent in the established theories and models. Develops this form through enterprise-wide competitive dimensions into a customizable business environment and manufacturing technology/programmespecific support framework. This generic framework links the competitive dimensions, the manufacturing-enterprise, business-process chains and the manufacturing typology; each is selectable and customizable for a specific manufacturing business operation. Describes the result which is a method of decomposing business goals into aggregate business-specific, manufacturing-performance indicators. These can be linked to measures of manufacturing performance and directly related to a manufacturing technology or a manufacturing programme.

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The Extended Enterprise reference framework

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An Approach to Multi-Agent Cooperative Scheduling in the Supply-Chain, With Examples

An Approach to Multi-Agent Cooperative Scheduling in the Supply-Chain, With Examples

Scheduling, Re-scheduling and Communication in the Multi-agent Extended Enterprise Environment

Customizing manufacturing strategy

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