In this paper,an intelligent constraint programming system for manufacturing material resource planning (MMRP) was presented.It is aimed to tackling large,particularly combinatorial,problems during the MMRP process,which increasingly involves complex sets of objectives and constraints in today's industrial manufacturing.The system consists of a do- main-specific architecture,an algorithm library,and a pre-defined solution library,based on which intelligent agents can effi- ciently construct MMRP problem specifications,select suitable algorithms to solve problems,and evolve a population of solutions to- wards a Pareto-optimal frontier.Our system significantly improves the efficiency,effectiveness,and reliability of MMRP prob- lem solving.

An Intelligent MMRP Constraint Programming SystemZHENG Yujun~(1.2) WANG kan~3 YANG Junwei~3 1.Systems Engineering Institute of Engineer Equipment,Beijing 100093,China 2.Institute of Software,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100080,China 3.Academy of Armored Force Engineering,Beijing 100072,ChinaIn this paper,an intelligent constraint programming system for manufacturing material resource planning (MMRP) was presented.It is aimed to tackling large,particularly combinatorial,problems during the MMRP process,which increasingly involves complex sets of objectives and constraints in today's industrial manufacturing.The system consists of a do- main-specific architecture,an algorithm library,and a pre-defined solution library,based on which intelligent agents can effi- ciently construct MMRP problem specifications,select suitable algorithms to solve problems,and evolve a population of solutions to- wards a Pareto-optimal frontier.Our system significantly improves the efficiency,effectiveness,and reliability of MMRP prob- lem solving.MMRP(manufacturing material resource planning);;constraint programming;;agent;;problem solving