— There is a need to replace existing mechanical and electromechanical systems with new ones, where functionality will be mainly implemented by software. The traditional approach...
In this paper we discuss the separation between attributes on functionality and on structure following an approach based on Model Driven Engineering (MDE). We adopt a methodologic...
Modern trends in manufacturing demand more flexible and adaptive handling of production order execution. Due to its distributed nature, agent-based systems become a suitable solut...
In factory automation, production line scheduling entails a number of competing issues. Finding optimal configurations often requires use of local search techniques. Local search l...
The dater equalities constitute a well-known tool which allows the description of Timed Event Graphs in the field of (max, +) algebra. This paper gives an equivalent model in the...
Abdelhak Guezzi, Philippe Declerck, Jean-Louis Boi...