Distributed tool sharing in flexible manufacturing systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 379-389

  Tsukada, Thomas K ^a,b   Shin, Kang G ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI); Flexible manufacturing systems; Rescheduling; Tool scheduling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (DAI);

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032095699     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.678448     Document Type: Article

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