Multi-Agent Based Beam Search for Real-Time Production Scheduling and Control Method, Software and Industrial Application /

• Main Authors: Kang, Shu Gang (Author), Choi, Shiu Hong (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Production management.; Computer simulation.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Operations Management.; Simulation and Modeling.

The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search (MABBS) method systematically integrates four major requirements of manufacturing production - representation capability, solution quality, computation efficiency, and implementation difficulty - within a unified framework to deal with the many challenges of complex...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introduction
• 2.Literature Review
• 3.Research Methodology
• 4.The Multi-Stage Multi-Level Decision-Making Model
• 5.Knowledge-Directed opportunistic Search
• 6. The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search Method
• 7. Modeling Complex Decision-Making Problems with the MABBS Methods
• 8.The MABBS Engine
• 9.Industrial Application of the MABBS Method
• 10.Summary and Directions for Future Research.