In real-world scheduling problems, several kinds of hard-to-predict risk must be considered.
Scheduling under uncertainty allows these kinds of risks to be taken into account. This paper …

In environments of constant development, the production system is going more complex,
focusing on new tendencies about continuous improvement for technologies in …

Manufacturing systems, and specifically Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), face the
challenge of accomplish global optimal performance and reactiveness at dynamic …

Discrete-event control systems have the opportunity to resolve significant challenges of
modern society. In particular, these represent a fundamental solution to manage and control …

Nowadays, industries cope with a wide range of situations and/or perturbations that
endanger the manufacturing productivity. Traditionally, manufacturing control systems are …

In last decades, new manufacturing requirements have introduced new approaches for
distributed control and automation, some of them introducing concepts as self-organization …

Pour rester performants et compétitifs, les systèmes de production doivent être capables de
s' adapter pour faire face aux changements tels que l'évolution de la demande des clients. Il …

In environments of constant development, the production system is going more complex,
focusing on new tendencies about continuous improvement for technologies in …

In this work is proposed and development an agents based coordination and control
strategy for automated production systems composed of collaborative (heterogeneous) …

Manufacturing systems must be able to continuously adapt their characteristics to cope with
the different changes that occur along their life, in order to remain efficient and competitive …