Scheduling through Group Decision Support with Adaptive Hypermedia

This paper aims is to present an ongoing project which proposes a new methodology and architecture for collaborative scheduling through adaptive hypermedia and group decision support. The approach to the problem is new in a sense that the techniques of user modelling, adaptive system and group decision support will be used and adapted to the scheduling process in manufacturing environments. A scheduling module outputs a set of candidate scheduling solutions, each generated based on specific criteria and/or by a particular method. Scheduling is a multi-criteria decision problem in practice where different schedulers may agree on key objectives but differ greatly on their relative importance in a particular situation. The selection of a scheduling solution is achieved through the interaction among scheduling actors which is supported by a group decision support module considering the different necessities and the diversity of information source of each group or individual user