Modelling for flexible manufacturing systems and structural properties of optimal work routing policy

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 497-503

  Xiaobo, Zhao ^a   Ohno, Katsuhisa ^b   Nakade, Koichi ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A work routing policy; Flexible manufacturing systems; Queueing network; Semi Markov decision processes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

SEMI MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; WORK ROUTING POLICY;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031383290     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018526803783     Document Type: Article

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