Intelligent-agent based approach for assembly automation

SMCia/08 - Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Soft Computing on Industrial Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-19

  Merdan, Munir ^a   Koppensteiner, Gottfried ^a   Zoitl, Alois ^a   Hegny, Ingo ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION; ASSEMBLY PROCESS; ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE-WIDE INTEGRATION; EXECUTION PROCESS; MULTIAGENT FRAMEWORK; NEGOTIATION MECHANISM; SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY; TASK ALLOCATION;

ASSEMBLY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SOFT COMPUTING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349277329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMCIA.2008.5045928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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