Fault-tolerant holonic manufacturing systems

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-70

  Fletcher, Martyn ^a   Deen, S Misbah ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based manufacturing; Fault tolerance; Holonic manufacturing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

AGENT BASED MANUFACTURING; GENERIC COOPERATING AGENT SYSTEM; HOLONIC AGENTS; HOLONIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0035019704     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.547     Document Type: Article

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