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MAS methodology for HMS

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HoloMAS'05: Proceedings of the Second international conference on Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

Pages 39 - 49

https://doi.org/10.1007/11537847_4

Published: 22 August 2005 Publication History

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Developments in Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) have been reported in three main areas: architectures, algorithms, and methodologies for HMS. Despite the advancements obtained in the first two areas the methodologies for HMS have not received great attention. To date, many of the developments in HMS have been conducted in an almost “empirical way”, without design methodology. There is a definite need to have methodologies for HMS that can assist the system designer at every development steps. This methodology should also provide clear and unambiguous analysis and design guidelines. To this end, in this work we present a Multi Agent Methodology for HMS analysis and design.

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HoloMAS'05: Proceedings of the Second international conference on Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

August 2005

269 pages

ISBN:3540282378

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Vladimír Mařík
Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Robert Brennan
Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Michal Pěchouček
Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta

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