1. Guest editorial

   • MengChu Zhou
   • Yushun Fan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 3

2. Tolerance evaluation of flexible manufacturing architectures

   • Pascal Berruet
   • Abdoul Karim Arman Toguyeni
   • Etienne Craye

   OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 484

3. Incremental modeling and verification of flexible manufacturing systems

   • Jiacun Wang
   • Yi Deng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 485 - 502

4. Interactive modeling and simulation of virtual manufacturing assemblies: An agent-based approach*

   • S. Ramaswamy
   • Yi Yan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 518

5. An approach to partner selection in agile manufacturing

   • NaiQi Wu
   • Ning Mao
   • YanMing Qian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 519 - 529

6. Scheduling cluster tools in wafer fabrication using candidate list and simulated annealing

   • Seong Jin Yim
   • Doo Yong Lee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 531 - 540

7. Petri net dynamics-based scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems with assembly

   • Mu Der Jeng
   • Chung Shi Lin
   • Yi Sheng Huang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 541 - 555

8. Modeling and control of workstation level information flow in FMS using modified Petri nets

   • Pingtao Yan
   • Mengchu Zhou
   • Zuren Feng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 557 - 568

9. A comparative performance analysis of deadlock avoidance control algorithms for FMS

   • Luca Ferrarini
   • Luigi Piroddi
   • Stefano Allegri

   OriginalPaper Pages: 569 - 585

10. Enterprise wide application integration platform for CIMS implementation

    • Yushun Fan
    • Wei Shi
    • Cheng Wu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 601