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Abstract
Mechanical scheduling becomes more complex as some other function like maintenance gets coupled with it. Multi Agent Systems are considered as intelligent solution providers in such complex decision making environments. The paper presents a conceptual framework for a Multi Agent System for integrated scheduling and maintenance.Multi-agent scheduling offers reactivity and distributed decision-making for floor shop control. Agents, which may represent any entities that act in production, negotiate to find best schedules. In this paper, we present a new multi-agent scheduling method that integrates both planning and maintenance activities. Actually, more than one plan can be generated for a job production. We suppose that plan selection must depend on information about machines maintenance and states to offer realistic schedules.