Dynamic shopfloor scheduling in multi-agent manufacturing systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 486-494

  Wong, T N ^a   Leung, C W ^a   Mak, K L ^a   Fung, R Y K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Integrated process planning and scheduling; Multi agent system; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROCESS CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

INTEGRATED PROCESS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; MACHINE AGENTS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM; NEGOTIATION; SHOPFLOOR;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744827670     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.09.073     Document Type: Article

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