TY - BOOK ID - 7913638 TI - Autonomous cooperation and control in logistics : contributions and limitations : theoretical and practical perspectivse AU - Hulsmann, Michael. AU - Scholz-Reiter, B. AU - Windt, Katja. PY - 2011 SN - 3642432581 3642194680 3642194699 1299337147 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Business -- Innovation. KW - Business logistics -- Automation. KW - Business logistics -- Management. KW - Business logistics KW - Production management KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Management KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Business & Economics KW - Civil Engineering KW - Management Styles & Communication KW - Industrial & Management Engineering KW - Automation KW - Business logistics. KW - Production management. KW - Manufacturing management KW - Supply chain management KW - Engineering. KW - Management. KW - Industrial management. KW - Control engineering. KW - Robotics. KW - Automation. KW - Engineering economics. KW - Engineering economy. KW - Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. KW - Robotics and Automation. KW - Operations Management. KW - Control. KW - Innovation/Technology Management. KW - Industrial management KW - Logistics KW - Control and Systems Theory. KW - Administration KW - Industrial relations KW - Organization KW - Economy, Engineering KW - Engineering economics KW - Industrial engineering KW - Business administration KW - Business enterprises KW - Business management KW - Corporate management KW - Corporations KW - Industrial administration KW - Management, Industrial KW - Rationalization of industry KW - Scientific management KW - Business KW - Industrial organization KW - Control engineering KW - Control equipment KW - Control theory KW - Engineering instruments KW - Programmable controllers KW - Automatic factories KW - Automatic production KW - Computer control KW - Engineering cybernetics KW - Factories KW - Mechanization KW - Assembly-line methods KW - Automatic control KW - Automatic machinery KW - CAD/CAM systems KW - Robotics KW - Machine theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7913638 AB - Many new technologies – like RFID, GPS, and sensor networks – that dominate innovative developments in logistics are based on the idea of autonomous cooperation and control. This self-organisational concept describes „...processes of decentralized decision-making in heterarchical structures. It presumes interacting elements in non-deterministic systems, which possess the capability and possibility to render decisions. The objective of autonomous cooperation and control is the achievement of increased robustness and positive emergence of the total system due to distributed and flexible coping with dynamics and complexity“ (Hülsmann & Windt, 2007). In order to underlie these technology-driven developments with a fundamental theoretical foundation this edited volume asks for contributions and limitations of applying the principles of autonomous cooperation and control to logistics processes and systems. It intends to identify, describe, and explain – in the context of production and distribution logistics – the effects on performance and robustness, the enablers and impediments for the feasibility, the essential cause-effect-relations, etc. of concepts, methods, technologies, and routines of autonomous cooperation and control in logistics. Therefore, the analyses collected in this edited volume aim to develop a framework for finding the optimal degree as well as the upper and lower boundaries of autonomous cooperation and control of logistics processes from the different perspectives of production technology, electronics and communication engineering, informatics and mathematics, as well as management sciences and economics. ER -