Towards an Infrastructure for Internet Enabled Collaborative Agent Systems
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چکیده
This paper presents some results of our recent research work towards an infrastructure for Internet enabled collaborative agent systems (particularly complex industrial collaborative agent systems). Although the infrastructure and the related agent system architecture, basic communication and cooperation services, components, prototypes, mechanisms and toolkits are proposed and developed for Internet enabled collaborative agent systems in all kinds of application areas, they are primarily targeted for implementing Internet enabled complex supply chain networks (or virtual enterprises) and distributed intelligent manufacturing systems. The general collaborative agent system architecture with the basic communication and cooperation services, domain independent components, prototypes and mechanisms are described. A case study of implementing a simplified supply chain is presented.
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