Context-dependent agents for real-time scheduling in manufacturing systems

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E85-A, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2407-2413

  Miyamoto, Toshiyuki ^a   Krogh, Bruce H ^b   Kumagai, Sadatoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Intelligent manufacturing systems; Real time scheduling

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANUFACTURE; SCHEDULING;

CONTEXT-DEPENDENT AGENTS (CDA);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036880904     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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