Evolutionary artificial neural network for selecting flexible manufacturing systems under disparate level-of-satisfaction of decision maker

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 131-140

  Bhattacharya, Arijit ^a   Abraham, Ajith ^b   Vasant, Pandian ^c   Grosan, Crina ^d  

^a Patent Office   (India)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^d BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Flexible manufacturing systems; Hybrid approach; Meta learning; Multi criteria decision making; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049061772     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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