Development of algorithms for agent based control of manufacturing flow shops

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 146-151

  McFarlane, Duncan ^a   Kollingbaum, Martin ^b   Matson, Jeremy ^a   Valckenaers, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Back pressure; Localised decision making; Manufacturing systems; Multi agent systems; Shop floor control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DECISION MAKING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; QUEUEING THEORY; SCADA SYSTEMS; THROUGHPUT;

AGENT BASED CONTROL; AUTOMOBILE PAINT PLANT; BACKPRESSURE ALGORITHM; MANUFACTURING FLOW SHOPS; ROUTE SELECTION; SHOP FLOOR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

AUTOMOBILE PLANTS;

EID: 0035726062     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2001.969803     Document Type: Article

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