Decision making is a complex process, particularly when it is carried out by multidisciplinary team. Methods based on the analytical hierarchy process have been widely employed because they provide solid mathematical ...

To compete in the current interconnected world, manufacturing companies shall explore varied forms of collaboration in order to maintain the creation of valueadded goods and services. The extended enterprise is one of the ...

Implementation of a supervised learning technique in a multi-agent system for building production orders

We describe the synthesis of an optimal control law and its implementation using objectoriented programming in the Java language. Our aim is to optimize the performance of a batch dryer system, which presents several ...

In this article the author presents JFK, which stands for Java Fuzzy Kit. JFK is an Application Programming Interface (API) that complies with both, a general structure of a fuzzy rule base and the necessary processing to ...

The authors describe the implementation of a multi-agent system, whose goal is to enhance production planning i.e. to improve the construction of production orders. This task has been carried out traditionally by the module ...

The authors present a Multi-Agent System for constructing and releasing production orders. In a manufacturing enterprise, the generation of production orders consists in a set of coordinated tasks among departments. This ...

Automated Hydroponic Greenhouses represent novel food production systems which include modules for supervising the cultivated soil, packaging plans, as well as prevention, diagnosis and control of pests and diseases. In ...