Evaluation of agent-based manufacturing systems based on a parallel simulator

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 529-552

  Huang, Chin Yin ^a   Nof, Shimon Y ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Message passing interface; Task administration protocol; Teamwork integration evaluation; Viability

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PLANNING; SCHEDULING;

AGENT-BASED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (ABMS);

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 0036721870     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(02)00124-9     Document Type: Article

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