| 摘要 |
An architecture of an agent-based scheduling system for scheduling processing of incoming work orders (40, WOA) in a plant by means of operations performed by physical entities (20) available in the plant, wherein the agents in the architecture comprise a tree-like hierarchy (S, A, C, U) including branches. The system is configured for applying a work order scheduling protocol to rule the interactions between the agents (10) in assigning operations requested by the incoming work orders to the physical entities (20). The protocol includes: a first main section, wherein the protocol identifies in the hierarchy a plurality of branches, each branch thus identified including physical entities adapted to process a given Work Order, and a second main section, wherein processing of the given Work Order is scheduled for each one of the identified branches of physical entities, whereby one of the scheduled branches is adapted to be selected for processing the given Work Order.
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