Intelligent Distributed Production Control
For researchers in intelligent manufacturing, this editorial provides a curated overview of current work and future directions in distributed production control.
This editorial introduces a special issue on intelligent distributed production control, summarizing selected high-quality papers from the INCOM'2009 symposium and discussing state-of-the-art and future research directions.
This editorial introduces the special issue of the Springer journal, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, on intelligent distributed production control. This special issue contains selected papers presented at the 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing - INCOM'2009 (Bakhtadze and Dolgui, 2009). The papers in this special issue were selected because of their high quality and their specific way of addressing the variety of issues dealing with intelligent distributed production control. Previous global discussions about the state of the art in intelligent distributed production control are provided, as well as exploratory guidelines for future research in this area.