Simulating the generic job shop as a multi-agent system

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 5-33

  Zhou, R ^a   Lee, H P ^a,b   Nee, A Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

DES; discrete event system; job shop; MAS; multi agent system; sequential diagram; UML state chart

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; JOB SHOP SCHEDULING; MATERIALS HANDLING; OPTIMIZATION; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

CONTROL RULES; DYNAMIC EVENTS; DYNAMIC JOB SHOP SCHEDULING; JOB SHOP; MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS; RELATED ENTITIES; SEQUENTIAL DIAGRAM; STATE CHARTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84889814135     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2008.016357     Document Type: Article

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