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Flexible manufacturing system structural control and the Neighborhood Policy, part 1. Correctness and scalability

MARK LAWLEY Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Alabama, Box 870288, Tuscaloosa, AL, S5487-0288, USAView further author information
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SPYROS REVELIOTIS School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0205, USA
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PLACID FERREIRA Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 361 Computer and Systems Research Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
Pages 877-887 | Received 01 Sep 1995, Accepted 01 Sep 1996, Published online: 31 May 2007

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