A Survey of Factory Control Algorithms That Can Be Implemented in a Multi-Agent Heterarchy: Dispatching, Scheduling, and Pull

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 297-320

  Baker, Albert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Technology; Discrete Optimization; Distributed Artificial Intelligence; ERP; Heterarchy; Heuristics; Multi Agent Systems; Scheduling and Control; Systems and Architectures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

DISPATCHING ALGORITHMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP); MULTI-AGENT HETERARCHY; PULL ALGORITHMS;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 0031621768     PISSN: 02786125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6125(98)80077-0     Document Type: Article

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