Organization and Control of Discrete Systems
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Structures and mechanisms for decision making
This research domain focuses on the coordination of decisions within structures involving several decision centers. Indeed, the complexity of production management problems requires a decomposition of the decision system into centers provided with autonomy. A better reactivity derives from such a distribution of the decision autonomy among the different centers. But it raises the problem of the global consistency of decisions. Different approaches are under development to tackle the problems of decision consistency and autonomy management. Some of them are carried out in collaboration with sociologists. The studies are related to the three following topics :
- the topic "Integrated planning and scheduling" proposes an iterative approach coordinating the decisions coming from a planning center with those from a scheduling center;
- the topic "Multilevel decisional structures" analyses the interactions between decision centers through data aggregation and decision disaggregation, in order to provide models ensuring the global consistency ;
- the topic "Constraints based approach and distributed decision" uses the constraints propagation mechanisms to support the decision making and cooperation processes within a network of decision centers.
The "DIDOM" project (Distribution of the decision within matrix organisations) is conducted with CERT, IRIT and Matra Marconi Space as partners. It aims at implementing and validating such approaches in an industrial context.
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