Holonic-based control system for automated material handling systems

In real-word manufacturing environments, finding the right job sequences and their associated schedules when resource, precedence, and timing constraints are imposed is a difficult task. For most practical problems classical scheduling easily leads to an exponential growth in the number of possible...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Babiceanu, Radu Florin
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28326
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07182005-173421/