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The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search (MABBS) method systematically integrates four major requirements of manufacturing production - representation capability, solution quality, computation efficiency, and implementation difficulty - within a unified framework to deal with the many challenges of complex real-world production planning and scheduling problems. Multi-agent Based Beam Search for Real-time Production Scheduling and Control introduces this method, together with its software implementation and industrial applications.  This book connects academic research with industrial practice, and develops a practical solution to production planning and scheduling problems. To simplify implementation, a reusable software platform is developed to build the MABBS method into a generic computation engine.  This engine is integrated with a script language, called the Embedded Extensible Application Script Language (EXASL), to provide a flexible and straightforward approach to representing complex real-world problems. Adopting an in-depth yet engaging and clear approach, and avoiding confusing or complicated mathematics and formulas, this book presents simple heuristics and a user-friendly software platform for system modelling. The supporting industrial case studies provide key information for students, lecturers, and industry practitioners alike. Multi-agent Based Beam Search for Real-time Production Scheduling and Control offers insights into the complex nature of and a practical total solution to production planning and scheduling, and inspires further research and practice in this promising research area.

Computational intelligence. --- Electronics -- Data processing. --- Evolutionary computation. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Civil Engineering --- Production scheduling. --- Job scheduling (Production control) --- Job-shop scheduling --- Project scheduling (Production control) --- Scheduling (Management) --- Engineering. --- Production management. --- Computer simulation. --- Engineering economics. --- Engineering economy. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Operations Management. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Production control --- Scheduling --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Industrial engineering