Modeling evolutionary supervisors for multi-agent manufacturing control with discrete event formalism

SMCia 2001 - Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Mountain Workshop on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 99-104

  Maione, G ^a   Naso, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; MANUFACTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFT COMPUTING; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

DISCRETE EVENT CONTROLLERS; DISCRETE EVENT FORMALISMS; DISCRETE EVENTS; EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS; MANUFACTURING CONTROL; MANUFACTURING PLANT; NETWORK OF AGENTS; POOR PERFORMANCE;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

EID: 84952767102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMCIA.2001.936737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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