An asynchronous protocol for virtual factory simulation on shared memory multiprocessor systems

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 413-422

  Gan, B P ^a   Turner, S J ^b  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Parallel discrete event simulation; Virtual factory simulation; Wafer fabrication modeling

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

ASYNCHRONOUS PROTOCOL; SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL FACTORY SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0033905368     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600914     Document Type: Article

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