Dynamic scheduling of steel casting and milling using multi-agents

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 178-188

  Cowling, Peter I ^a   Ouelhadj, Djamila ^b   Petrovic, Sanja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contract net protocol; Dynamic scheduling; Multi agents; Steel production; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; BLAST FURNACES; CAST IRON; IRON AND STEEL PLANTS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SLAB MILLS;

CONTRACT NET PROTOCOL; DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; STEEL PRODUCTION; TABU SEARCH;

STEEL CASTINGS;

EID: 2442695353     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280410001662466     Document Type: Article

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