Capability-based emerging organization of autonomous agents for flexible production control

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 247-259

  Timm, Ingo J ^a   Scholz, Thorsten ^a   Herzog, Otthein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capability management; Emergent capabilities; Flexible production control; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; MACHINE TOOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CAPABILITY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENT CAPABILITIES; FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION CONTROL; SYSTEM DESIGNER;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 33747168280     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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