Agent-based approach to mass-oriented production planning: Case study

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 386-395

  Pěchouček, Michal ^a   Rehák, Martin ^a   Charvát, Petr ^b   Vlček, Tomáš ^a,b   Kolář, Michal ^c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CertiCon   (Czech Republic)

^c CR sro   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Multiagent systems; Production planning

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PLANNING;

MULTIAGENT PLANNING TECHNIQUES; PRODUCTION PLANNING;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247205205     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2006.889537     Document Type: Article

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