Evaluating a holonic packing cell

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2744, Issue , 2003, Pages 246-257

  Fletcher, Martyn ^a   McFarlane, Duncan ^b   Thorne, Alan ^b   Jarvis, Dennis ^a   Lucas, Andrew ^a  

^a Agent Oriented Software Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURE; SUPPLY CHAINS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PACKING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; EMANUFACTURING; HOLONIC SYSTEM; HOLONICS; MASS CUSTOMISATION; MULTI AGENT; SHOP FLOOR;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

HOLONIC PACKING CELL; HOLONIC SYSTEMS; MASS-CUSTOMIZATION; SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 7044238431     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45185-3_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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