Simulation of workflow scheduling strategies using the MAST test management system

2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1172-1177

  Merdan, Munir ^a   Moser, Thomas ^a   Wahyudin, Dindin ^a   Biffl, Stefan ^a   Vrba, Pavel ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Rockwell Automation   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Automated simulation; MAST; Scheduling strategies

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISPATCHING RULES; DYNAMIC WORKFLOW; LOCAL SCHEDULING; MANUFACTURING AGENTS; MAST; MULTI-AGENT NEGOTIATIONS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RESOURCE AGENTS; RUNS TESTS; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES; TEST MANAGEMENTS; WORKFLOW SCHEDULING; WORKFLOW SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER VISION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL LABORATORIES; MANAGEMENT; ROBOTICS; TESTING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 64549090575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2008.4795687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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