Scheduling Flexible Manufacturing Systems using Petri Nets and Heuristic Search

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 123-132

  Lee, Doo Yong ^a   DiCesare, Frank ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETRI NETS;

CONCURRENCY; HEURISTIC SEARCH; LOT SIZES; PARTIAL REACHABILITY GRAPH; ROUTING FLEXIBILITY; SHARED RESOURCES;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0028413979     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.282537     Document Type: Article

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