Real time distributed shop floor scheduling using an agent-based service-oriented architecture

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2433-2452

  Wang, Chun ^a   Ghenniwa, Hamada ^a   Shen, Weiming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent based service oriented integration; Distributed control structure; Dynamic distributed scheduling algorithms; Shop floor scheduling

Indexed keywords

GRID COMPUTING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; WEB SERVICES;

AGENT BASED SERVICE ORIENTED INTEGRATION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SHOP FLOOR SCHEDULING;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 40849098593     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540701738052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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