Design choices for agent-based control of AGVs in the dough making process

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 983-999

  Mes, Martijn ^a   van der Heijden, Matthieu ^a   van Hillegersberg, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analysis and design; Intelligent manufacturing; Methodologies; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

BAKERIES; DECISION MAKING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES; DOUGH MAKING; INDUSTRIAL BAKERY; INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 38649095945     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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