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Book Multi Agent Based Beam Search for Real Time Production Scheduling and Control

Download or read book Multi Agent Based Beam Search for Real Time Production Scheduling and Control written by Shu Gang Kang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 real-world production planning and scheduling problems. Multi-agent Based Beam Search for Real-time Production Scheduling and Control introduces this method, together with its software implementation and industrial applications. This book connects academic research with industrial practice, and develops a practical solution to production planning and scheduling problems. To simplify implementation, a reusable software platform is developed to build the MABBS method into a generic computation engine. This engine is integrated with a script language, called the Embedded Extensible Application Script Language (EXASL), to provide a flexible and straightforward approach to representing complex real-world problems. Adopting an in-depth yet engaging and clear approach, and avoiding confusing or complicated mathematics and formulas, this book presents simple heuristics and a user-friendly software platform for system modelling. The supporting industrial case studies provide key information for students, lecturers, and industry practitioners alike. Multi-agent Based Beam Search for Real-time Production Scheduling and Control offers insights into the complex nature of and a practical total solution to production planning and scheduling, and inspires further research and practice in this promising research area.

Book Multi Agent Based Beam Search for Real Time Production Scheduling and Control

Download or read book Multi Agent Based Beam Search for Real Time Production Scheduling and Control written by Shu Gang Kang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 real-world production planning and scheduling problems. Multi-agent Based Beam Search for Real-time Production Scheduling and Control introduces this method, together with its software implementation and industrial applications. This book connects academic research with industrial practice, and develops a practical solution to production planning and scheduling problems. To simplify implementation, a reusable software platform is developed to build the MABBS method into a generic computation engine. This engine is integrated with a script language, called the Embedded Extensible Application Script Language (EXASL), to provide a flexible and straightforward approach to representing complex real-world problems. Adopting an in-depth yet engaging and clear approach, and avoiding confusing or complicated mathematics and formulas, this book presents simple heuristics and a user-friendly software platform for system modelling. The supporting industrial case studies provide key information for students, lecturers, and industry practitioners alike. Multi-agent Based Beam Search for Real-time Production Scheduling and Control offers insights into the complex nature of and a practical total solution to production planning and scheduling, and inspires further research and practice in this promising research area.

Book Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi Agent Systems

Download or read book Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi Agent Systems written by Vladimír Mařík and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015. The 19 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: surveys, conceptual design and validation, digital factories and manufacturing control systems, ARUM: adaptive production management, and smart grids, complex networks and big data.

Book Generic Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling

Download or read book Generic Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling written by Schirin Bär and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production control of flexible manufacturing systems is a relevant component that must go along with the requirements of being flexible in terms of new product variants, new machine skills and reaction to unforeseen events during runtime. This work focuses on developing a reactive job-shop scheduling system for flexible and re-configurable manufacturing systems. Reinforcement Learning approaches are therefore investigated for the concept of multiple agents that control products including transportation and resource allocation.

Book Multi Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling  Applications for System Improvement

Download or read book Multi Agent Systems for Healthcare Simulation and Modeling Applications for System Improvement written by Paranjape, Raman and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings used by medical professionals in the implementation of multi-agent systems"--Provided by publisher.

Book Multiagent System Technologies

Download or read book Multiagent System Technologies written by Michael Schillo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2003, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2003. The 18 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on engineering agent-based systems, systems and applications, models and architectures, the semantic Web and interoperability, and collaboration and negotiation.

Book Multi Agent Based Production Planning and Control

Download or read book Multi Agent Based Production Planning and Control written by Jie Zhang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroads of artificial intelligence, manufacturing engineering, operational research and industrial engineering and management, multi-agent based production planning and control is an intelligent and industrially crucial technology with increasing importance. This book provides a complete overview of multi-agent based methods for today’s competitive manufacturing environment, including the Job Shop Manufacturing and Re-entrant Manufacturing processes. In addition to the basic control and scheduling systems, the author also highlights advance research in numerical optimization methods and wireless sensor networks and their impact on intelligent production planning and control system operation. Enables students, researchers and engineers to understand the fundamentals and theories of multi-agent based production planning and control Written by an author with more than 20 years’ experience in studying and formulating a complete theoretical system in production planning technologies Fully illustrated throughout, the methods for production planning, scheduling and controlling are presented using experiments, numerical simulations and theoretical analysis Comprehensive and concise, Multi-Agent Based Production Planning and Control is aimed at the practicing engineer and graduate student in industrial engineering, operational research, and mechanical engineering. It is also a handy guide for advanced students in artificial intelligence and computer engineering.

Book Sustainability Through Innovation in Product Life Cycle Design

Download or read book Sustainability Through Innovation in Product Life Cycle Design written by Mitsutaka Matsumoto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of chapters based on selected papers presented at the EcoDesign2015 symposium (9th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing). The symposium, taking place in Tokyo in December 2015, has been leading the research and practices of eco-design of products and product-related services since it was first held in 1999. The proceedings of EcoDesign2011 were also published by Springer. Eco-design of products and product-related services (or product life cycle design) are indispensable to realize the circular economy and to increase resource efficiencies of our society. This book covers the state of the art of the research and the practices in eco-design, which are necessary in both developed and developing countries. The chapters of the book, all of which were peer-reviewed, have been contributed by authors from around the world, especially from East Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia. The features of the book include (1) coverage of the latest topics in the field, e.g., global eco-design management, data usage in eco-design, and social perspectives in eco-design; (2) an increased number of authors from Southeast Asian countries, with a greater emphasis on eco-design in emerging economies; (3) high-quality manuscripts, with the number of chapters less than half of that of the previous book.

Book Artificial Intelligence Abstracts

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book CAD CAM Abstracts

Download or read book CAD CAM Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Computer   Control Abstracts

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Book Advanced Machine Learning Approaches in Cancer Prognosis

Download or read book Advanced Machine Learning Approaches in Cancer Prognosis written by Janmenjoy Nayak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a variety of advanced machine learning approaches covering the areas of neural networks, fuzzy logic, and hybrid intelligent systems for the determination and diagnosis of cancer. Moreover, the tactical solutions of machine learning have proved its vast range of significance and, provided novel solutions in the medical field for the diagnosis of disease. This book also explores the distinct deep learning approaches that are capable of yielding more accurate outcomes for the diagnosis of cancer. In addition to providing an overview of the emerging machine and deep learning approaches, it also enlightens an insight on how to evaluate the efficiency and appropriateness of such techniques and analysis of cancer data used in the cancer diagnosis. Therefore, this book focuses on the recent advancements in the machine learning and deep learning approaches used in the diagnosis of different types of cancer along with their research challenges and future directions for the targeted audience including scientists, experts, Ph.D. students, postdocs, and anyone interested in the subjects discussed.

Book Government Reports Announcements   Index

Download or read book Government Reports Announcements Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Government reports annual index

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Book Genetic Programming for Production Scheduling

Download or read book Genetic Programming for Production Scheduling written by Fangfang Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to an evolutionary learning approach, specifically genetic programming (GP), for production scheduling. The book is divided into six parts. In Part I, it provides an introduction to production scheduling, existing solution methods, and the GP approach to production scheduling. Characteristics of production environments, problem formulations, an abstract GP framework for production scheduling, and evaluation criteria are also presented. Part II shows various ways that GP can be employed to solve static production scheduling problems and their connections with conventional operation research methods. In turn, Part III shows how to design GP algorithms for dynamic production scheduling problems and describes advanced techniques for enhancing GP’s performance, including feature selection, surrogate modeling, and specialized genetic operators. In Part IV, the book addresses how to use heuristics to deal with multiple, potentially conflicting objectives in production scheduling problems, and presents an advanced multi-objective approach with cooperative coevolution techniques or multi-tree representations. Part V demonstrates how to use multitask learning techniques in the hyper-heuristics space for production scheduling. It also shows how surrogate techniques and assisted task selection strategies can benefit multitask learning with GP for learning heuristics in the context of production scheduling. Part VI rounds out the text with an outlook on the future. Given its scope, the book benefits scientists, engineers, researchers, practitioners, postgraduates, and undergraduates in the areas of machine learning, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, operations research, and industrial engineering.

Book Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS

Download or read book Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS written by Nicolas Remy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stanford Geostatistical Modeling Software (SGeMS) is an open-source computer package for solving problems involving spatially related variables. It provides geostatistics practitioners with a user-friendly interface, an interactive 3-D visualization, and a wide selection of algorithms. This practical book provides a step-by-step guide to using SGeMS algorithms. It explains the underlying theory, demonstrates their implementation, discusses their potential limitations, and helps the user make an informed decision about the choice of one algorithm over another. Users can complete complex tasks using the embedded scripting language, and new algorithms can be developed and integrated through the SGeMS plug-in mechanism. SGeMS was the first software to provide algorithms for multiple-point statistics, and the book presents a discussion of the corresponding theory and applications. Incorporating the full SGeMS software (now available from www.cambridge.org/9781107403246), this book is a useful user-guide for Earth Science graduates and researchers, as well as practitioners of environmental mining and petroleum engineering.

Book Ant Colony Optimization

Download or read book Ant Colony Optimization written by Marco Dorigo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-06-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the rapidly growing field of ant colony optimization that describes theoretical findings, the major algorithms, and current applications. The complex social behaviors of ants have been much studied by science, and computer scientists are now finding that these behavior patterns can provide models for solving difficult combinatorial optimization problems. The attempt to develop algorithms inspired by one aspect of ant behavior, the ability to find what computer scientists would call shortest paths, has become the field of ant colony optimization (ACO), the most successful and widely recognized algorithmic technique based on ant behavior. This book presents an overview of this rapidly growing field, from its theoretical inception to practical applications, including descriptions of many available ACO algorithms and their uses. The book first describes the translation of observed ant behavior into working optimization algorithms. The ant colony metaheuristic is then introduced and viewed in the general context of combinatorial optimization. This is followed by a detailed description and guide to all major ACO algorithms and a report on current theoretical findings. The book surveys ACO applications now in use, including routing, assignment, scheduling, subset, machine learning, and bioinformatics problems. AntNet, an ACO algorithm designed for the network routing problem, is described in detail. The authors conclude by summarizing the progress in the field and outlining future research directions. Each chapter ends with bibliographic material, bullet points setting out important ideas covered in the chapter, and exercises. Ant Colony Optimization will be of interest to academic and industry researchers, graduate students, and practitioners who wish to learn how to implement ACO algorithms.