Development of the complexity measure for assembly line systems using entropy concept

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9037-9042

  He, Fei ^a   Rao, Yunqing ^a   Zhang, Chaoyong ^a   Shao, Xinyu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Assembly line; Complexity; Effectiveness of schedule; Entropy

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; ENTROPY;

ASSEMBLY LINE; ASSEMBLY LINE SYSTEMS; COMPLEXITY; COMPLEXITY MEASURES; DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY; EFFECTIVENESS OF SCHEDULE; PROCESS COMPLEXITY; STRUCTURE COMPLEXITY;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 52149114022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCICA.2008.4594358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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