Intelligent dynamic control policies for serial production lines

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-77

  Paternina Arboleda, Carlos D ^a   Das, Tapas K ^b  

^a Departamento de Ingenieria Industrial   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DYNAMIC CONTROLS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0035124331     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007641824604     Document Type: Article

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