Scheduling is the problem of allocating resources to alternate possible uses over designated period of time. Contract mechanisms use prices derived through distributed bidding protocols to determine an allocation. A robust manufacturing scheduling protocol based on multi-agent paradigm is proposed in this paper. We define all the manufacturing units, such as machines and jobs, as economic agents, which conduct strong robustness against practical manufacturing conditions. A contract mechanism with bidding protocol corresponding to market structure is proposed. We study the dynamism of the proposed scheduling protocol, and confirm its validity by several simulation experiments.
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