A pheromone-based coordination approach and a prototype implementation for task allocation are pro- posed, for dealing with the static task allocation. The approach uses an indirect coordination mechanism, called pher...A pheromone-based coordination approach and a prototype implementation for task allocation are pro- posed, for dealing with the static task allocation. The approach uses an indirect coordination mechanism, called pheromone, which comes from the collective behavior of ant colonies for food foraging. Therefore it can automat- ically find efficient manufacturing cells for processing tasks and reduce communication overhead, which exists in the contract net protocol. Experimental results confirm that the approach has excellent stability and optimization ability for task allocation problems in a static environment.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51175001,51175262)the New Century Excellent Talents in Ministry of Education of China(NCET-08)+3 种基金the Research Fund for Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(20093218110020)the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(1208085QE94)the Universities Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province(KJ2012B008)the Doctoral Scientific Research Starting Foundation of Anhui Polytechnic University(2011YQQ006)~~
文摘A pheromone-based coordination approach and a prototype implementation for task allocation are pro- posed, for dealing with the static task allocation. The approach uses an indirect coordination mechanism, called pheromone, which comes from the collective behavior of ant colonies for food foraging. Therefore it can automat- ically find efficient manufacturing cells for processing tasks and reduce communication overhead, which exists in the contract net protocol. Experimental results confirm that the approach has excellent stability and optimization ability for task allocation problems in a static environment.
