A manufacturing problem solving environment combining evaluation, search, and generalisation methods

Computers in Industry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 175-187

  Caskey, Kevin R ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Generalisation; Genetic algorithms; Manufacturing; Neural networks; Scheduling; Search; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0035283589     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-3615(00)00072-5     Document Type: Article

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