Integration of human behavioral aspects in a dynamic model for a manufacturing system

Elkosantini Sabeur (1) , Denis Gien (1)

1 LIMOS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'optimisation des Systèmes

The computational simulation of human intelligent behavior has been one of the main research topics in (AI) artificial intelligence domain. Therefore, a great number of behavioral models were proposed considering emotional, cognitive and psychological factors to simulate the human behavior in different domain such as military or manufacturing systems. In addition to psychological factors, the social state of a group of workers plays a critical role in rational decision-making, perception, human interaction and human intelligence. Thus, it is judicious to analyze the workers' behavior at work and to integrate their needs and requirements in manufacturing systems models in order to improve the simulation accuracy. In this context, this paper suggests a graphical and a mathematical representation model of workers' behaviors as well as the ties that can exist among them. The model is also extended to consider inter-worker social relations that can influence the individual performance.

Keywords: Physical Sciences

Elkosantini Sabeur, Denis Gien. Integration of human behavioral aspects in a dynamic model for a manufacturing system. International Journal of Production Research, 2009, 47 (10), pp.2601-2623. ⟨10.1080/00207540701663490⟩. ⟨hal-00513003⟩