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 …

The changes of market, the shift of manufacturing paradigm, the evolution of devices, and
the emergence of new technologies, require and drive manufacturing to be flexible …

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) open up new perspectives for the design, development,
implementation, and operation of manufacturing systems and will enable a paradigm shift in …

The paper addresses a conceptual framework for collaborative product design and related
manufacturing system development, operations and maintenance. The framework consists …

Cyber-physical production systems are transforming traditional, hierarchical control
structures into distributed ones in which the elements offer and consume services with a …

In this work, a survey is made of the analysis of the resource selection process. We
approach the process also from the point of view of conventional enterprises but with …

An adaptive control concept for supply chains is presented. Its background is a complex
supply chain scenario originating from the machine building domain with a focus primarily …

Cette thèse rappelle les fondements du pilotage des systèmes logistiques et montre l'intérêt
de la mise en place d'un SCP (Systèmes Contrôlés par le produit). L'intégration de tels …

A novel hybrid two-stage method of facility layout planning, based on self-organized
clustering, is presented. In the first stage, a self-organizing map (SOM) is applied in order to …

The increasing market fluctuations and customized products demand have dramatically
changed the focus of industry towards organizational sustainability and supply chain agility …