A hybrid scheduling and control system architecture for warehouse management

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 991-1001

  Kim, Byung In ^a   Heragu, Sunderesh S ^b   Graves, Robert J ^b   Onge, Art St ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c St Onge Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid framework; Intelligent agent; Warehouse management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; WAREHOUSES;

CONTROL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; HYBRID INTELLIGENT AGENT BASED SCHEDULING; RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM; WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0242375709     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.819735     Document Type: Article

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