Resource allocation systems (RASs) belong to a kind of discrete event system commonly
seen in the industry. In such systems, available resources are allocated to concurrently …

Deadlocks are a rather undesirable situation in a highly automated flexible manufacturing
system. Their occurrences often deteriorate the utilization of resources and may lead to …

Deadlock problems in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) have received more and more
attention in the last two decades. Petri nets are one of the more promising mathematical …

Deadlock prevention plays an important role in the modeling and control of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS). This paper presents a novel and computationally efficient …

Because of residency time constraints and activity time variation of cluster tools, it is very
difficult to operate such integrated semiconductor manufacturing equipment. This paper …

This paper proposes an iterative synthesis approach to Petri net (PN)-based deadlock
prevention policy for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Given the PN model (PNM) of an …

Automatic Web Service composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet in
Service Oriented Architecture. The need for interservice compatibility analysis and indirect …

In many flexible assembly systems, base components are transported with pallets; parts to
be mounted onto the base ones are transported by trays with no pallets. When an assembly …

With the interaction of discrete-event and continuous processes, the short-term scheduling
problem of crude oil operations is essentially combinatorial. Thus, it is preferred to develop …

Deadlocks are an undesirable situation in automated flexible manufacturing systems (FMS).
Their occurrences often deteriorate the utilization of resources and may lead to catastrophic …