Inhalt: Neue Planungsanforderungen durch verteilte Produktion Aspekte mehrstufiger Planung Gestaltung von Optimierungsmodellen für Logistiknetze Forschungsfortschritt und Forschungspotenzial Im Zusammenhang mit dem Schlagwort "Supply Chain Management" (SCM) werden Logistiknetze unter...

A novel closed loop track based multi‐head robot has been developed to increase the material handing throughput. This robot allows waves of autonomous robot heads to move materials in to the working path by eliminating the traditional return path. Two distributed control architectures were...

Distributed systems usually contain objects with heterogeneous security requirements that pose important challenges for the underlying security mechanisms and especially in access control systems. Access control in distributed systems often relies on centralised security administration. Existing...