A multi-agent system to support heuristic-based dynamic manufacturing rescheduling

Intelligent Decision Technologies

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 197-211

  Zhang, Luping ^a   Wong, T N ^a   Fung, R Y K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

heuristics; Integrated process planning and scheduling; multi agent system; rescheduling

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS; DYNAMIC PROCESS PLANNING; HEURISTICS; INTEGRATED PROCESS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; INTEGRATION OF PROCESS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS; PROCESS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; RESCHEDULING;

FLOORS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MANUFACTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

PROCESS PLANNING;

EID: 84880218421     PISSN: 18724981     EISSN: 18758843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IDT-130163     Document Type: Article

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