A multi-agent system for dynamic just-in-time manufacturing production scheduling

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 5548-5553

  Boccalatte, Antonio ^a   Gozzi, Andrea ^a   Paolucci, Massimo ^a   Queirolo, Valentina ^a   Tamoglia, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based system; Earliness and tardiness penalties; Manufacturing scheduling; On line scheduling

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; EARLINESS AND TARDINESS PENALTIES; MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING; ONLINE SCHEDULING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 15744400692     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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