This paper describes an object-oriented architecture to support decision making in production scheduling environments. An object-oriented world view is used to integrate concepts from discrete event simulation, conventional scheduling logic and artificial intelligence to produce capacity-feasible schedules. The architecture was implemented as a collection of loosely coupled reusable software objects by extending the functionality of software objects from BLOCS/M (Berkeley Library of Objects for Control and Simulation of Manufacturing). Our experience with an industrial prototype is presented.
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Adiga, S., Lin, WT. An object-oriented architecture for knowledge-based production scheduling systems. J Intell Manuf 4, 139–150 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00123907
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