Agent technology has been considered as an important approach for developing distributed
intelligent manufacturing systems. A number of researchers have attempted to apply agent …

Agent technology has been recognized as a promising paradigm for next generation
manufacturing systems. Researchers have attempted to apply agent technology to …

Michael L. Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 1 Scheduling Michael L.
Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 2 Scheduling Page 3 Michael L …

In most real-world environments, scheduling is an ongoing reactive process where the
presence of a variety of unexpected disruptions is usually inevitable, and continually forces …

The emerging paradigm of agent-based computation has revolutionized the building of
intelligent and decentralized systems. The new technologies met well the requirements in all …

Mass customization aims to deliver products and services that best meet individual
customers' needs with near mass production efficiency (Tseng et al. 1996). In this paradigm …

Agent based models (ABM) have been recently applied to solve optimization problems
whose domains present several inter-related components in a distributed and …

Manufacturing process planning is the process of selecting and sequencing manufacturing
processes such that they achieve one or more goals and satisfy a set of domain constraints …

While there have been several control architectures proposed, a framework that identifies
the relationships between such architectures has been missing. The purpose of this paper is …

Technological developments along with the emergence of Industry 4.0 allow for new
approaches to solve industrial problems, such as the Job-shop Scheduling Problem (JSP) …