Flexible manufacturing system structural control and the Neighborhood Policy, part 2. Generalization, optimization, and efficiency

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 889-899

  Lawley, Mark ^a   Reveliotis, Spyros ^b   Ferreira, Placid ^c  

^a The University of Alabama   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR CORRECTION; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC POLICY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

STRUCTURAL CONTROL POLICY (SCP);

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031247787     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179708966409     Document Type: Article

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