Pheromone based emergent shop floor control system for flexible flow shops

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 343-352

  Peeters, Patrick ^a   Van Brussel, Hendrik ^a   Valckenaers, Paul ^a   Wyns, Jo ^a   Bongaerts, Luc ^a   Kollingbaum, Martin ^a   Heikkilä, Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Emergent; Pheromone; Shop floor control

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SHOP FLOOR CONTROL SYSTEM;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0035482773     PISSN: 09541810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-1810(01)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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