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Abstract: The production process of steelmaking continuous casting (SCC) is a typical heterogeneous distributed manufacturing system. The scheduling problem in heterogeneous distributed manufacturing ...

Abstract: In the smart home environment, users develop a variety of automation rules to meet their needs in different scenarios. These rules can automatically trigger the operation of smart devices ...