A distributed search and simulation method for job flow scheduling

Simulation

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 377-401

  Jernigan, S R ^a,b   Ramaswamy, S ^a,c   Barber, K S ^a,d  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c School of Business   (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristic; Job flow; Manufacturing; Reactive simulation; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

JOB FLOW SCHEDULING; REACTIVE SIMULATION; WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP);

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031170424     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003754979706800603     Document Type: Article

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