Purpose The performance of discrete items manufacturing systems (MS) is a primary
concern of industrial firms. However, the understanding of the interrelations between …

As the preferred underpinning technology of intelligent transportation systems (ITS),
vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been widely used to cope with various traffic …

This paper addresses the deadlock (DL)-free scheduling problem of flexible manufacturing
systems (FMS) characterized by resource sharing, limited buffer capacity, routing flexibility …

In a mining operation, significant differences between production targets in the planning
stage and actual production quantities are a common issue. These differences can be …

Several well-known international cooperation programs in the research field of air traffic
management, eg, SESAR and NextGen, aim to overcome the deficiencies of airspace …

This paper presents an application of deterministic and stochastic Petri nets (DSPN) to
evaluate the performance of subsea blowout preventer (BOP) system. The overall subsea …

Multi-agent system (MAS) models have been increasingly applied to the simulation of
complex phenomena in different areas, providing successful and credible results. However …

This paper focuses on the use of timed colored Petri nets (TCPN) to study emergency
vehicle (EV) preemption control problem. TCPN is adopted to establish an urban traffic …

As a new collaborative mining technology, the integration of mining-separating-backfilling
(IMSB) enables the coal industry to realize safe, efficient, and green mining of coal …

Given the fluctuations in demand, diversity in products, production flexibility requirements,
and tight customer due dates, obtaining optimal production schedules is considered a …