Autonomous control of production networks using a pheromone approach

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 363, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 104-114

  Armbruster, D ^a,c   De Beer, C ^b   Freitag, M ^b   Jagalski, T ^b   Ringhofer, C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomous control; Discrete event simulation models; Fluid models; Pheromones; Production networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; THROUGHPUT; TOPOLOGY;

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION MODELS; FLUID MODELS; PHEROMONES; PRODUCTION NETWORKS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33645153463     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.052     Document Type: Article

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