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MANSCI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Implications of Renegotiation for Optimal Contract Flexibility and Investment
After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply c...
Erica L. Plambeck, Terry A. Taylor
GECCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Multi-objective memetic approach for flexible process sequencing problems
This paper describes a multi-objective memetic approach for solving multi-objective flexible process sequencing problems in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). FMS can be des...
Jian-Hong Chen, Jian-Hung Chen
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Agent-based control for decentralised demand side management in the smart grid
Central to the vision of the smart grid is the deployment of smart meters that will allow autonomous software agents, representing the consumers, to optimise their use of devices ...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Al...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Agent-community based peer-to-peer information retrieval: an evaluation
The Agent-Community-based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (ACP2P) method uses agent communities to manage and look up information of interest to users. An agent works as a dele...
Tsunenori Mine, Akihiro Kogo, Makoto Amamiya
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Avoiding unsafe states in manufacturing systems based on polynomial digraph algorithms
Abstract − A deadlock-free unsafe (DFU) state of Resource Allocation System (RAS) is deadlock-free but inevitable to enter a deadlock state. Previous research revealed that in ma...
Yin Wang, Zhiming Wu