Dynamic workforce allocation in a constrained flow shop with multi-agent system

Computers in Industry

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 967-975

  Savino, Matteo M ^a   Brun, Alessandro ^b   Mazza, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b Politecnico di Milano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic resource allocation; Multi agent system; Simulation; Workforce management

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PERSONNEL; SCHEDULING;

CENTRALIZED SCHEDULING; CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; ELECTROMECHANICAL COMPONENTS; SIMULATION; WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84901785206     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2014.02.016     Document Type: Article

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