Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling Using Intelligent Agents

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 88-94

  Shen, Weiming ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; JOB ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING; JOB SHOP SCHEDULING; REAL-TIME SCHEDULING; SEQUENTIAL MANUFACTURING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0036200385     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5254.988492     Document Type: Article

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