Communication between agents is possible only when agents understand ontologies used in exchanged messages. Since we cannot hope that one universally accepted ontology would be ever created, approaches allowing using different ontologies by different ...

One of advantages for software agent is their ability to serve as proxies for trade and bartering. This has led to the analysis and development of negotiation mechanism for general resource allocation problem. We consider agent-mediated Pareto optimal ...

An agent architecture is described with high-level process management applications in mind. The agent is “information-based” in that it is designed to operate with real-time information streams. The information that it receives may be of questionable ...

Multiagent systems (MAS) provide a useful approach to distributed problem solving whereby the growing complexity of robust and scalable systems increases the requirements on efficient structures and organisations. A promising approach to organisation of ...

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 ...

MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) and HMS (Holonic Manufacturing Systems) are enabling the vision of the Plug & Play Factory and paving the way for future autonomous production systems. Previous research activities and pilot implementations reported the FIPA (...

There are two main contributions of the work reported in the paper. First, a new model of software agents is proposed that are polymorphic and highly mobile. The former feature of agents results from the existence of potentially many agent versions. The ...

This paper goes back to the origins of the Holonic Systems concept, a wording coined by Arthur Köstler [1] but actually based on fundamental insights from Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon [2]. Simon's theme is limited rationality and its implications ...

Within this paper we describe a simulation environment for the underwater surveillance and propose architecture of control part of autonomous robot capable of efficient operation in such environment. Besides this the algorithms for decentralized ...

We consider the scheduling issues for The London Underground (LU), which spans the entire city, and is a vast network of inter-related railway lines. By its very nature, it is a dynamic, complex and unpredictable environment; operating or being ...

The radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology for automatic identification and localization of items, particularly in supply chain. Unlike bar code technology that detects the optical signals reflected from bar code labels, RFID uses radio ...

An approach to combine information access and control operations in a process automation system extended with multi-agent system technology is presented in this paper. According to this approach a multi-agent system supervises an ordinary process ...

In the last years, several manufacturing control architectures using emergent paradigms and technologies, such as multi-agent and holonic manufacturing systems, have been proposed to address the challenge of developing control systems capable of ...

Classical control systems are based on feedback techniques and models that generally cannot manage computational complexity, nonlinearity and uncertainty. Moreover, classical control cannot adapt well to the variability of the processes under control in ...

Currently industrial automation systems are built using a hierarchical top-down approach, yielding tightly coupled and low flexibility systems. Holonic and intelligent agent-based industrial control systems have the potential to be much more highly ...