Utility and stability measures for agent-based dynamic scheduling of steel continuous casting

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 175-180

  Ouelhadj, D ^a   Cowling, P I ^b   Petrovic, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous caster; Dynamic scheduling; Multi agents; Reactive scheduling; Steel production

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS CASTING; HEURISTIC METHODS; HOT ROLLING MILLS; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

AGENT-BASED DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; CONTINUOUS CASTER; REACTIVE SCHEDULING; STEEL CONTINUOUS CASTING; TABU SEARCH;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0344444825     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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