Adaptive manufacturing scheduling: A flexible and configurable agent-based prototype

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 479-487

  Cheeseman, M J ^a,c   Swann, P ^a,c,d,e   Hesketh, G B ^a,d,f   Barnes, S ^b,d  

^a ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute of Physics   (United Kingdom)

^d Institute of Physics ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f Strategic Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agents; Decision support; Scheduling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT; MANUFACTURING PROBLEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MANUFACTURE; SCHEDULING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 32144453887     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280500121810     Document Type: Article

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