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Efficiency and robustness are required simultaneously in manufacturing scheduling. Social contract mechanism takes a metaphor for social interactions amongst decision makers, and its aim is to execute a rational allocation of multiple resources in their society. Then it must have great potential to realise sophisticated manufacturing scheduling system in its nature. As one of social contract mechanisms, we focus on combinatorial auction approach, which is able to calculate optimal solutions in auction manner, and try to integrate it with manufacturing scheduling. First of all, we explain the general concept about combinatorial auction mechanism, and describe the formulation of our targeted scheduling problem with the mechanism in this paper. Then, the performance of the proposed methodology is evaluated with several simulation scenarios in terms of its optimality and robustness. Finally we try to clarify its effectiveness with industrial case study as practical situations.
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Kaihara, T., Sashio, K., Miura, K. (2008). Social contract based manufacturing scheduling with combinatorial auction mechanism. In: Mitsuishi, M., Ueda, K., Kimura, F. (eds) Manufacturing Systems and Technologies for the New Frontier. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-267-8_54
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