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Pheromone based emergent shop floor control system for flexible flow shops

Patrick Peeters, +6 more
- pp 173-182
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A development approach for agent-based shop floor control systems is presented, that uses co-ordination concepts as observable in insect colonies to introduce better response to unanticipated disturbance situations and better handling of ‘reconfiguration’ in production environments.
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The article was published on 1999-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 74 citations till now.

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Auto ID systems and intelligent manufacturing control

Duncan McFarlane, +4 more
- 01 Jun 2003 - 
TL;DR: The way in which both conventional control methods and so-called distributed, intelligent control methods can be enhanced by the availability of accurate, timely information about an item is examined.
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Ant colony intelligence in multi-agent dynamic manufacturing scheduling

W. Xiang, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2008 - 
TL;DR: Simulation results show that, for most of the performance measures, a MAS integrated with well-designed ant-inspired coordination performs well compared to a MAS using dispatching rules.
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Emergent synthesis methodologies for manufacturing

Kanji Ueda, +4 more
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
TL;DR: This paper offers a concise overview of new manufacturing methodologies that are based on emergent synthesis by reviewing about 300 papers according to the problem classification and in terms of three phases of concept formation, theory and application.
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Dynamic flexible job shop scheduling with alternative process plans: an agent-based approach

Amir Rajabinasab, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a pheromone-based approach is proposed for coordination among agents in a flexible job shop problem considering dynamic events such as stochastic job arrivals, uncertain processing times, and unexpected machine breakdowns.
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Autonomous control of production networks using a pheromone approach

Dieter Armbruster, +5 more
- 15 Apr 2006 - 
TL;DR: To manage dynamic networks according to low work-in-progress and short throughput times, an autonomous control approach is proposed that means a decentralized routing of the autonomous parts themselves.
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Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents

Marco Dorigo, +2 more
TL;DR: It is shown how the ant system (AS) can be applied to other optimization problems like the asymmetric traveling salesman, the quadratic assignment and the job-shop scheduling, and the salient characteristics-global data structure revision, distributed communication and probabilistic transitions of the AS.
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Multiagent Systems : A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Gerhard Weiss
TL;DR: This is the first comprehensive introduction to multiagent systems and contemporary distributed artificial intelligence and will be a useful reference not only for computer scientists and engineers, but for social scientists and management and organization scientists as well.
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The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic

Marco Dorigo, +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter contains sections titled: Combinatorial Optimization, The ACO Metaheuristic, How Do I Apply ACO?
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AntNet: distributed stigmergetic control for communications networks

Gianni A. Di Caro, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1998 - 
TL;DR: AntNet is a distributed, mobile agents based Monte Carlo system that was inspired by recent work on the ant colony metaphor for solving optimization problems, and showed superior performance under all the experimental conditions with respect to its competitors.
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New Ideas In Optimization

David Corne, +6 more
TL;DR: The techniques treated in this text represent research as elucidated by the leaders in the field and are applied to real problems, such as hilllclimbing, simulated annealing, and tabu search.