Agent technology has been considered as an important approach for develo** distributed
intelligent manufacturing systems. A number of researchers have attempted to apply agent …

Agent technology has been recognized as a promising paradigm for next generation
manufacturing systems. Researchers have attempted to apply agent technology to …

In most real-world environments, scheduling is an ongoing reactive process where the
presence of a variety of unexpected disruptions is usually inevitable, and continually forces …

Agent based models (ABM) have been recently applied to solve optimization problems
whose domains present several inter-related components in a distributed and …

Manufacturing process planning is the process of selecting and sequencing manufacturing
processes such that they achieve one or more goals and satisfy a set of domain constraints …

This paper reviews the available literature on the application of information and
communication technologies (ICT), more specifically, Web and agent technologies in …

This paper offers a review of the development and use of multi-agent modelling techniques
and simulations in the context of manufacturing systems and supply chain management …

In a production environment, scheduling decides job and machine allocations and the
operation sequence. In a job shop production system, the wide variety of jobs, complex …

Due to the dynamic fluctuation of customer demands in the global market, manufacturing
enterprises are facing difficulties in rapidly responding to market changes. The aim of this …

In the competitive and dynamic global market, manufacturing enterprises will require
responsive manufacturing systems that are capable of responding rapidly to dynamic …