iShopFloor: An internet-enabled agent-based intelligent shop floor

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 371-381

  Shen, Weiming ^a   Lang, Sherman Y T ^a   Wang, Lihui ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agents; eXtensible Markup Language (XML); Intelligent manufacturing; Internet based manufacturing; Manufacturing scheduling; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

FACTORY AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SCHEDULING; XML;

INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING; INTERNET BASED MANUFACTURING; MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 23944491877     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2004.843224     Document Type: Article

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