Flow control system and control method therefor
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsTakehiro Itou, Nobuharu Kami
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Abstract
This flow control system is obtained by connecting a plurality of work units WUα and a plurality of work units WUβ to one another, wherein: each WUα has an α-control purpose which is a WU-based independent control purpose, and has an α-control rule for the α-control purpose; each WUβ has a β-control purpose to cause as many WUα as possible to achieve the own α-control purposes, and has a β-control rule for the β-control purpose; the β-control rule is dynamically changed on the basis of partial information about the flow control system; and the WUβ is disposed in a part of the flow control system.
Claims18
A flow control system, comprising:
- a plurality of work units α (hereinafter abbreviated as WUα's);
- and
- a plurality of work units β (hereinafter abbreviated as WUβ's), the plurality of WUβ's and the plurality of WUα's being linked,
- wherein each of the plurality of WUα's has an α control objective, which is a first control objective set for each WU independently, and an α control rule, which is a first control rule to be applied to the α control objective,
- each of the plurality of WUβ's has a β control objective, which is an aim to enable many WUα's out of the plurality of WUα's to achieve their respective α control objectives, and a β control rule, which is a second control rule to be applied to the β control objective,
- the β control rule is the second control rule dynamically changed based on partial information of the flow control system,
- the plurality of WUβ's are placed in some areas of the flow control system,
- wherein each of the plurality of WUα's handles a first processing step, which is a first control target,
- wherein the WUα is configured to:
- obtain first processing step information from the first processing step of the WUα;
- and
- control the first processing step based on the obtained first processing step information of the WUα,
- wherein each of the plurality of WUβ's handles a second processing step, which is a second control target,
- wherein the WUβ is configured to:
- obtain second processing step information of the WUβ from the second processing step of the WUβ;
- obtain peripheral processing step information from other work units, WUα's or WUβ's, that are near the WUβ, and integrate the obtained peripheral processing step information and the obtained second processing step information of the WUβ;
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- control the second processing step based on the integrated processing step information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.