Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) form a large and important part of the logistic transport
systems in today's industry. They are used on a large scale, especially in Europe, for over a …

Abstract Fuzzy Petri nets (FPNs) are a potential modeling technique for knowledge
representation and reasoning of rule-based expert systems. To date, many studies have …

Resource failures may happen in automated manufacturing systems (AMSs) because of
different reasons in the real world, making most existing deadlock control policies …

Age replacement models are fundamental to maintenance theory. This paper summarizes
our new perspectives and hods in age replacement models: First, we optimize the expected …

This work studies the scheduling problem of a single-arm multicluster tool with a linear
topology and process-bound bottleneck individual tool. The objective is to find a one-wafer …

This work proposes a novel structure in Petri nets, namely data inhibitor arcs, and their
application to the optimal supervisory control of Petri nets. A data inhibitor arc is an arc from …

Supervisory control is usually considered as an external control mechanism to a system by
controlling the occurrences of its controllable events. There exist Petri net models whose …

This paper deals with deadlock problems in Petri nets by adding a set of recovery
transitions. Different from traditional deadlock control methods by deploying control places …

This work focuses on multi-objective scheduling problems of automated manufacturing
systems. Such an automated manufacturing system has limited resources and flexibility of …

The aim of the paper is to present a practical solution to a particular real-life problem of
discrete flow control in a manufacturing system. For this purpose a fuzzy Multi-Criteria …