An agent architecture for manufacturing control: ManAge

Computers in Industry

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 315-331

  Heikkilä, Tapio ^a,d   Kollingbaum, Martin ^b   Valckenaers, Paul ^c   Bluemink, Geert Jan ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d NetHawk Solutions Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agent technologies; Distributed control; Manufacturing control; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURE; MANUFACTURING CONTROL;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035475130     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(01)00130-0     Document Type: Article

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