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Multi-agent based beam search for real-time production scheduling and control : method, software and industrial application /

The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search (MABBS) method systematically integrates four major requirements of manufacturing production - representation capability, solution quality, computation efficiency, and implementation difficulty - within a unified framework to deal with the many challenges of complex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kang, Shu Gang
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Choi, Shiu Hong
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Springer, [2013]
Subjects:
Production scheduling.
Multiagent systems > Industrial applications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Technology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Literature Review
  • 3.Research Methodology
  • 4.The Multi-Stage Multi-Level Decision-Making Model
  • 5.Knowledge-Directed opportunistic Search
  • 6. The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search Method
  • 7. Modeling Complex Decision-Making Problems with the MABBS Methods
  • 8.The MABBS Engine
  • 9.Industrial Application of the MABBS Method
  • 10.Summary and Directions for Future Research.