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Dunbing Tang

Work place: College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

E-mail: d.tang@nuaa.edu.cn

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Research Interests: Engineering

Biography

Dunbing Tang was born in Xiantao, Hubei in 1972. He got his Ph.D degree in Nanjing University of science and technology. He is a professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. Prof. Tang has published more than 100 technical papers in the fields of CIM, Innovative Design for Product, Intelligent Manufacturing, and Agile Manufacturing. He is currently an expert of International Journal of Production Research, Concurrent Engineering--Research and Applications, Computers in Industry, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Journal of Engineering Design, and Computers & Industrial Engineering. His current research includes Innovative Design for Product, CAD&CAPP, modeling and optimizing in manufacturing system, self-organization and self-adaptation manufacturing system, distributed manufacturing systems, changeable manufacturing system, and bio-inspired manufacturing system.

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Optimization for manufacturing system based on Pheromone

By Lei Wang Dunbing Tang

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2011.03.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2011

A new optimization approach, called pheromone, which comes from the collective behavior of ant colonies for food foraging is proposed to optimize task allocation. These ants spread pheromone information and make global information available locally; thus, an ant agent only needs to observe its local environment in order to account for nonlocal concerns in its decisions. This approach has the capacity for task allocation model to automatically find efficient routing paths for processing orders and to reduce communication overhead, which exists in contract net protocol, in shop floor control system. An example confirms that a pheromone-based optimization approach has an excellent allocation performance in shop floor.

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