: Today, industry is confronted with a fast changing market. Customers demand a high-quality, low price and tailored product. This requires flexible manufacturing systems. At K.U. ...
Paul Verstraete, Paul Valckenaers, Bart Saint Germ...
An experimental study shows the feasibility of service-oriented architectures for industrial automation and control systems even with respect to lower, real-time dependent control...
Andre Pohl, Heiko Krumm, Felix Holland, Franz-Jose...
Strong competition on the global automotive market is forcing car manufacturers rethink their strategic approach to manufacturing. In order to be competitive, companies need to man...
The Flexible Job Shop problem is a generalization of the classical job shop scheduling problem in which for every operation there is a group of machines that can process it. The p...
Klaus Jansen, Monaldo Mastrolilli, Roberto Solis-O...
Abstract Monitoring the runtime behaviour of a distributed agent system for debugging or demonstration purposes provides a challenge to agent system developers. As a lot of the com...