This paper presents a model for preference-based multi-agent scheduling suitable for Holonic Manufacturing Systems in which holons can cooperate in producing a satisfactory global schedule. The goodness of the scheduling model has been verified by a theoretical behaviour model and confirmed by simulation, using a number of Assembler holons as the scheduler agents of manufacturing tasks. The result of this study, which we found to be satisfactory, has been presented in the paper.
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