Agent-based shop-floor scheduling of multi stage systems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 457-460

  Brun, A ^a   Portioli, A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEM; MULTISTAGE SYSTEM; SHOP FLOOR SCHEDULING SYSTEM;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032599497     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(99)00117-5     Document Type: Article

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