A real-time decision-making of maintenance using fuzzy agent

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2691-2698

  Lu, Kun Yung ^a   Sy, Chun Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agent system; Decision making; Fuzzy logic; Maintenance; Real time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; DECISION MAKING; MAINTENANCE; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

AGENT SYSTEMS; HISTORICAL PRODUCTION; MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENTS; PROCESS CONTROL COMPUTERS; PRODUCTION CONTROL DECISIONS; REAL TIME; REAL TIME DECISION-MAKING; REAL-TIME INFORMATION;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 56749176201     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.087     Document Type: Article

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