An Object-Oriented Approach for Flexible Manufacturing Control Systems Analysis and Design Using the Unified Modeling Language

International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Bruccoleri, Manfredi ^a   Noto La Diega, Sergio ^a   Perrone, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation; FMS; Unified modeling language

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; METADATA; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0344875549     PISSN: 09206299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026314925956     Document Type: Article

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