Emergent short-term forecasting through ant colony engineering in coordination and control systems

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 261-278

  Valckenaers, Paul ^a   Hadeli, ^a   Saint Germain, Bart ^a   Verstraete, Paul ^a   Van Brussel, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coordination; Emergent forecasting; Manufacturing control; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FORECASTING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COORDINATION; EMERGENT FORECASTING; MANUFACTURING CONTROL; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 33747170366     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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