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EOR
2007
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Bucket brigades with worker learning
The dynamics and throughput of a bucket brigade production system is studied when workersÕ speeds increase due to learning. It is shown that, if the rules of the bucket brigade s...
Dieter Armbruster, Esma Senturk Gel, Junko Murakam...
EOR
2006
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Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly networks
In a network of subassembly lines, balance becomes more difficult to achieve as it requires that all subassembly lines be synchronized to produce at the same rate. We show how to ...
John J. Bartholdi III, Donald D. Eisenstein, Yun F...
EOR
2006
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Bucket brigades revisited: Are they always effective?
Previous work on the dynamics of bucket brigades has focused on systems in which workers can be ordered with respect to their speeds and where this ordering does not change throug...
Dieter Armbruster, Esma Senturk Gel
GECCO
2005
Springer
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14 years 6 months ago
Exploring XCS in multiagent environments
This paper investigates the adaptability of XCS in four different multiagent environments. The environments are realized in a simplified soccer game, and they include (1) singlea...
Hiroyasu Inoue, Keiki Takadama, Katsunori Shimohar...