Leitão, PauloBarbosa, José2017-01-172017-01-172014Leitão, Paulo; Barbosa, José (2014). Adaptive scheduling based on self-organized holonic swarm of schedulers. In 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE. Istanbul, Turkey. p.1706-1711http://hdl.handle.net/10198/13849Scheduling plays an important role in the companies’ competiveness, dealing with complex combinatorial problems subject to uncertainty and emergence. In particular, in the ramp-up phase of small lot-sizes of complex products, scheduling is more demanding, e.g. due to late requests and immature technology products and processes. This paper presents the principles of a distributed scheduling architecture based on holonic and swarm principles and implemented using multi-agent system technology. In particular, it is described the coordination among the network of the swarm of schedulers and analysed the impact of embedded self-organization mechanisms.engconference object10.1109/ISIE.2014.6864872