Publications

[Journals | Conferences | Workshop notes]

Journals

Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1999), A Distributed Architecture and Negotiation Protocol for Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems. Computers in Industry - special issue on Life Cycle Approaches to Production Systems: Management, Control and Supervision, vol. 38 n.º 2, pp.103-113, March 1999. Elsevier. ISSN 0166-3615.

Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1998), A Dynamic Scheduling Holon for Manufacturing Orders. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing - special issue on Agent-based Manufacturing, vol. 9 n.º 2, pp. 107-112, April 1998. Chapman & Hall. ISSN 0956-5515.

Conferences

Paulo Sousa, Carlos Ramos, and José Neves (1999), Manufacturing Entities with Incomplete Information. Proceedings of the 2^nd International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS-Europe'99), pp. 185-193. Leuven, Belgium, 22-24 September 1999. (zipped PS - 265Kb; slides - 72Kb)

Paulo Sousa, Carlos Ramos and José Neves (1999), Contracting Tasks Between Autonomous Resources – An application to dynamic scheduling of manufacturing orders. Proceedings of The Practical Application of Agents and Multi-Agents Technologies (PAAM’99), pp. 345-362. London, UK, 19-21 April 1999. (zipped PS - 286Kb; slides - 106Kb)

Nuno Silva, Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1998), Proposal for a Dynamic Scheduling Architecture and Algorithm using an Holonic Approach. IFAC - Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 98. Gramado, RS, Brasil, 10-12 November 1998.

Nuno Silva, Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1998), A Holonic Manufacturing System Implementation. Proceedings of the Advanced Summer Institute (ASI'98). Bremen, Germany, 14-17 June 1998.

Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1998), Scheduling Using Negotiation Between Resources and Tasks. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS-Europe’98), pp. 479-490. Lausanne, Switzerland, 15-17 April 1998.

Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1997), A Distributed Architecture and Negotiation Protocol for Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems. Proceedings of the Advanced Summer Institute (ASI’97). Budapest, Hungary, 14-18 July 1997.

Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1997), A Dynamic Scheduling Holon for Manufacturing Orders. Proceedings of the Intelligent Manufacturing Processes & Systems (IMP&S’97), pp. 542-547. Budapest, Hungary, 10-13 June 1997.

Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1997), Proposal of a Scheduling Holon for Manufacturing. Proceedings of The Practical Application of Agents and Multi-Agents Technologies (PAAM’97), pp. 255-268. London, UK, 21-23 April 1997.

Workshops Notes

Paulo Sousa and Carlos Ramos (1998), A Negotiation-Based Scheduler for Manufacturing Systems. Working notes of the workshop on Agent Based Manufacturing at the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents’98); Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, 9-13 May 1998.

Carlos Ramos and Paulo Sousa (1996), Scheduling Orders in Manufacturing using a Holonic Approach. Proceedings of the European Workshop on Agent-Oriented Systems in Manufacturing, pp. 80-85. Berlin, Germany, 26-27 September 1996.