The increasing complexity of manufacturing systems as well as the overall demands for flexible and fault-tolerant control of production processes stimulates (among many others) two key emerging technologies that are already making an important breakthrough in the field of intelligent manufacturing, control, and diagnostics. These two paradigms are: • the holonic approach based on the event-driven control strategy, usually aimed at modular control systems that are directly physically linked with the manufacturing hardware equipment, and • the multi-agent approach developed in the area of distributed information processing. The research communities working in both these fields are approaching the problem of intelligent manufacturing from different viewpoints and, until recently, to a certain extent, in an independent way. We can however observe quite a clear convergence of these fields in the last few years: the communities have started to cooperate, joining efforts to solve the painful problems involved in achieving effective industrial practice. We can see convergence in the terminology, standards and methods being applied.
Author(s): William A. Gruver, Dilip B. Kotak, Edwin H. van Leeuwen, Douglas Norrie (auth.), Vladimír Mařík, Duncan McFarlane, Paul Valckenaers (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2744 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 328
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Industrial and Production Engineering; Production/Logistics; Business Information Systems
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Holonic Manufacturing Systems: Phase II....Pages 1-14
A Mechanism for Ensuring Safe Behaviors of Holonic Manufacturing Systems....Pages 15-24
A Real-Time Interface for Holonic Control Devices....Pages 25-34
Integration of Automation Resources in Holonic Manufacturing Applications....Pages 35-46
JAVA-Based Agent Platform Evaluation....Pages 47-58
An Approach to the Formal Specification of Holonic Control Systems....Pages 59-70
Holonic Multiagent Systems: A Foundation for the Organisation of Multiagent Systems....Pages 71-80
The Link between Autonomy and Organisation in Multiagent Systems....Pages 81-90
Fault-Tolerant Behaviour in Holonic Manufacturing Systems: A Simulation Study....Pages 91-99
Multiagent-Based Process Planning and Scheduling in Context of Supply Chains....Pages 100-109
Improving Multi-agent Based Scheduling by Neurodynamic Programming....Pages 110-123
Agent Architecture for Dynamic Job Routing in Holonic Environment Based on the Theory of Constraints....Pages 124-133
A Heterogeneous Multi-agent Modelling for Distributed Simulation of Supply Chains....Pages 134-145
Integration of Shop Floor Holons with Automated Business Processes....Pages 146-155
Proposal of Holonic Manufacturing Execution Systems Based on Web Service Technologies for Mexican SMEs....Pages 156-166
Secure FIPA Compliant Agent Architecture Draft....Pages 167-178
Agent Exchange – Virtual Trading Environment....Pages 179-188
Adding OWL Semantics to Ontologies Used in Multi-agent Systems for Manufacturing....Pages 189-200
Complex Data Integration Based on a Multi-agent System....Pages 201-212
A Multi-agent Architecture for Distributed Design....Pages 213-224
AgentAllocator: An Agent-Based Multi-criteria Decision Support System for Task Allocation....Pages 225-235
An Approach to Process Automation Based on Cooperating Subprocess Agents....Pages 236-245
Evaluating a Holonic Packing Cell....Pages 246-257
FABMAS: An Agent-Based System for Production Control of Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes....Pages 258-267
A Case Study for Modular Plant Control....Pages 268-279
Implementation of Mobile-Agent-Based Network Management Systems for National Broadband Experimental Networks in Taiwan....Pages 280-289
An Agent-Based Simulator for Electricity Markets: Seller, Buyer, and Trader Players....Pages 290-301
AgenTec – Concepts for Agent Technology in Automation....Pages 302-309
Cost-Based Dynamic Reconfiguration System for Evolving Holarchies....Pages 310-320
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