Auto ID systems and intelligent manufacturing control

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 365-376

  McFarlane, Duncan ^a   Sarma, Sanjay ^b   Chirn, Jin Lung ^a   Wong, C Y ^a   Ashton, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic identification; Distributed systems; Holonic manufacturing; Intelligent manufacturing systems; Manufacturing control; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DECISION MAKING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

HOLONIC MANUFACTURING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0141792959     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-1976(03)00077-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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