Collaborative plan exchange: Significant reinforcement for contract net based distributed manufacturing systems

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1042-1050

  Gao, Qinglu ^a   Luo, Xin ^b   Wu, Bo ^b   Yang, Shuzi ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Collaborative plan exchange; Contract net protocol; Distributed manufacturing system; Performance optimization; System robustness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COLLABORATIVE PLAN EXCHANGE; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM ROBUSTNESS;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

EID: 44449086428     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-007-1047-3     Document Type: Article

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