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Mark S. Fox
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 174
Citations - 8983
Mark S. Fox is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ontology (information science) & Enterprise modelling. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 167 publications receiving 8827 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark S. Fox include Carnegie Mellon University & University of Pittsburgh.
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ISIS—a knowledge‐based system for factory scheduling
Mark S. Fox,Stephen F. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: This paper describes ISIS, a scheduling system capable of incorporating all relevant constraints in the construction of job shop schedules, and examines both the representation of constraints within ISIS, and the manner in which these constraints are used in conducting a constraint-directed search for an acceptable schedule.
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Agent-Oriented Supply-Chain Management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate issues and presents solutions for the construction of an agent-oriented software architecture for the supply chain, which relies on the use of a building shell, providing generic, reusable, and guaranteed components and services for communicative-act-based communication, conversational coordination, role-based organization modeling, and others.
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Constraint-Directed Search: A Case Study of Job-Shop Scheduling
TL;DR: In this thesis, a system called ISIS is presented, which uses a constraint-directed search paradigm to solve the scheduling problem and provides a knowledge representation language for modeling organizations and their constraints.
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An Organizational View of Distributed Systems
TL;DR: By viewing distributed systems as analogous to human organizations, concepts and theories germane to the management science field of organization theory can be applied.