Distributed scheduling for reactive maintenance of complex systems

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

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 269-273

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed scheduling; Multiagent system; Reactive maintenance

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE BIDDING; REACTIVE MAINTENANCE;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 40949092064     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2007.913916     Document Type: Article

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