@inproceedings{GrumThimRolingetal.2023, author = {Grum, Marcus and Thim, Christof and Roling, Wiebke and Sch{\"u}ffler, Arnulf and Kluge, Annette and Gronau, Norbert}, title = {AI case-based reasoning for artificial neural networks}, series = {Artificial intelligence and industrial applications}, volume = {771}, booktitle = {Artificial intelligence and industrial applications}, editor = {Masrour, Tawfik and El Hassani, Ibtissam and Barka, Noureddine}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-031-43523-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-43524-9_2}, pages = {17 -- 35}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Faced with the triad of time-cost-quality, the realization of production tasks under economic conditions is not trivial. Since the number of Artificial-Intelligence-(AI)-based applications in business processes is increasing more and more nowadays, the efficient design of AI cases for production processes as well as their target-oriented improvement is essential, so that production outcomes satisfy high quality criteria and economic requirements. Both challenge production management and data scientists, aiming to assign ideal manifestations of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to a certain task. Faced with new attempts of ANN-based production process improvements [8], this paper continues research about the optimal creation, provision and utilization of ANNs. Moreover, it presents a mechanism for AI case-based reasoning for ANNs. Experiments clarify continuously improving ANN knowledge bases by this mechanism empirically. Its proof-of-concept is demonstrated by the example of four production simulation scenarios, which cover the most relevant use cases and will be the basis for examining AI cases on a quantitative level.}, language = {en} } @misc{PanzerBenderGronau2022, author = {Panzer, Marcel and Bender, Benedict and Gronau, Norbert}, title = {Neural agent-based production planning and control}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, issn = {1867-5808}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-60477}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-604777}, pages = {26}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Nowadays, production planning and control must cope with mass customization, increased fluctuations in demand, and high competition pressures. Despite prevailing market risks, planning accuracy and increased adaptability in the event of disruptions or failures must be ensured, while simultaneously optimizing key process indicators. To manage that complex task, neural networks that can process large quantities of high-dimensional data in real time have been widely adopted in recent years. Although these are already extensively deployed in production systems, a systematic review of applications and implemented agent embeddings and architectures has not yet been conducted. The main contribution of this paper is to provide researchers and practitioners with an overview of applications and applied embeddings and to motivate further research in neural agent-based production. Findings indicate that neural agents are not only deployed in diverse applications, but are also increasingly implemented in multi-agent environments or in combination with conventional methods — leveraging performances compared to benchmarks and reducing dependence on human experience. This not only implies a more sophisticated focus on distributed production resources, but also broadening the perspective from a local to a global scale. Nevertheless, future research must further increase scalability and reproducibility to guarantee a simplified transfer of results to reality.}, language = {en} } @article{PanzerBenderGronau2022, author = {Panzer, Marcel and Bender, Benedict and Gronau, Norbert}, title = {Neural agent-based production planning and control}, series = {Journal of Manufacturing Systems}, volume = {65}, journal = {Journal of Manufacturing Systems}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0278-6125}, doi = {10.1016/j.jmsy.2022.10.019}, pages = {743 -- 766}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Nowadays, production planning and control must cope with mass customization, increased fluctuations in demand, and high competition pressures. Despite prevailing market risks, planning accuracy and increased adaptability in the event of disruptions or failures must be ensured, while simultaneously optimizing key process indicators. To manage that complex task, neural networks that can process large quantities of high-dimensional data in real time have been widely adopted in recent years. Although these are already extensively deployed in production systems, a systematic review of applications and implemented agent embeddings and architectures has not yet been conducted. The main contribution of this paper is to provide researchers and practitioners with an overview of applications and applied embeddings and to motivate further research in neural agent-based production. Findings indicate that neural agents are not only deployed in diverse applications, but are also increasingly implemented in multi-agent environments or in combination with conventional methods — leveraging performances compared to benchmarks and reducing dependence on human experience. This not only implies a more sophisticated focus on distributed production resources, but also broadening the perspective from a local to a global scale. Nevertheless, future research must further increase scalability and reproducibility to guarantee a simplified transfer of results to reality.}, language = {en} }