An integrated agent-based approach for responsive control of manufacturing resources

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 221-232

  Lim, M K ^a   Zhang, D Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing; Dynamic process planning and scheduling; Multi agent systems; Responsive manufacturing

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; INTERNET; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

AGILE MANUFACTURING; DYNAMIC PROCESS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; RESPONSIVE MANUFACTURING;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 2042478705     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2003.12.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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