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In this work we discuss production planning in electronics assembly---and, in particular, in PCB assembly. Our intention is to identify the typical problems arising from production planning and to give a survey of the solution methods suggested in the literature. In addition to this theoretical

Work reported herein was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation,

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Simultaneous determination of the optimal process mean and cutting speed for a manufacturing process M. A. AL-FAWZAN and A. M. A. AL-AHMARI

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Agent based system is a collection of autonomous computational elements, independent programs (hereafter we will refer to these elements as agents) that perform collective behaviour in order to meet either their individual goals (self-interested agents) or a in-community shared goal (collaborative agents) [7], [5]. They exchange information and knowledge in order to achieve desired instance of collaboration. Multi-agent decision making is not only processing information from various sources of diverse nature. Multi-agent systems allow its agents to act proactively: any agent is able to try to persuade the rest of the community members to adopt the agent's local goal as their joint motivation and implement it. Either hierarchical, heterarchical or partially structured communities of agents perform joint decision making by means of communication, collaboration, negotiation, and responsibility delegation that are based on agents' individual rationality and social intelligen...

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