Multi-Agent-Based Production Planning And Control

A unique view of intelligent production management and technologies for today’s competitive manufacturing environment

• Focuses on the planning and scheduling of production systems for Job Shop Manufacturing and Re-entrant Manufacturing
• Highlights the advanced research works in the field of industrial engineering and management, such as numerical optimization methods and wireless sensor networks
• 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 this area, it is the result of her study and formulation of a complete theoretical system in these technologies
• Fully illustrated throughout, the methods for production planning, scheduling and controlling are presented using experiments, numerical simulations and theoretical analysis

Professor Jie Zhang, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. ?Professor Zhang achieved her PhD in 1997 from the School of Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China and in 2008-2009 she was Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of five books in Chinese and over 100 peer-reviewed journal and transaction full papers in English and Chinese. She holds regular lectures at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in computer integrated manufacturing systems, enterprise resource planning, E-operation management systems for future manufacturing, the foundations for manufacturing design, and manufacturing systems and information technologies. Since 2010 she has been Executive Director of the Production System Council, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society of Manufacturing Engineering.