Short communication: flow as distributed lines within the landscape

Dependable Distributed Automation Systems within an Open Communication Infrastructure

Distributed Shared Objects as a Communication Paradigm

Current paradigms for interprocess communication are not sufficient to describe the exchange of information at an adequate level of abstraction. They are either too low-level, or their implementations cannot meet performance requirements. As an alternative, we propose distributed shared objects as a unifying concept. These objects offer user-defined operations on shared state, but allow for eff...

Team communication and coordination as distributed cognition

In this paper we argue that it is necessary to study the communicative and coordinative practices in order to understand how the successful team operation of dynamic systems is constituted. We present a fourfold criticism of the view where communication is treated as the transmission of information and where coordination is regarded as the transfer of commands between individuals. Instead we ad...

The Finite Horizon Economic Lot Scheduling in Flexible Flow Lines

This paper addresses the common cycle multi-product lot-scheduling problem in flexible flow lines (FFL) where the product demands are deterministic and constant over a finite planning horizon. Objective is minimizing the sum of setup costs, work-in-process and final products inventory holding costs per time unite while satisfying the demands without backlogging. This problem consists of a combi...

Culture As The Bedrock of Tourism's Multidiscipanary Landscape of Knowledge