One of the key design issues of holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) is to effectively respond to resource failures based on the flexible holonic architecture. The objective of this paper is to propose a viable design methodology to implement reconfiguration mechanism in HMS. A reconfiguration mechanism is developed to accommodate changes based on collaboration of holons without leading to chaos...

The paper presents some considerations and a concept regarding on using of distributed intelligent agents in holonic control of adaptive manufacturing systems perspective. Unlike the classical manufacturing control systems, holonic manufacturing control systems provide a high agility and adaptability to the environment changes, and robustness against the occurrence of disturbances, bringing the...

The purpose of this paper is threefold: Firstly, demonstrate how intelligent agents and their cooperation can be applied to Telecommunications Network Management (TNM) via proposing a methodology for incorporating key agent types at switching nodes. Secondly, to illustrate the use of COAL, a notational language founded upon object-oriented programming constructs with declarative relational data...

Modeling and designing systems that require a high level of coordination, control and automation is a very difficult task. The problem is the lack of design processes able to cover all the features these systems present. This paper presents an extension of the ASPECS metamodel for supporting organizational and normative principles and it allows to define models not only from an holonic agent vi...

107.6 HMS ................................................................................107-7 107.7 Agent Platforms ............................................................107-9 Agent Development Tools Characteristics • FIPA Compliancy • Costs and Maintainability of the Source Code • Memory Requirements • Message Sending Speed • Agent Platforms Overview • Message-Sending Speed Benchmarks ...

In real-word manufacturing environments, finding the right job sequences and their associated schedules when resource, precedence, and timing constraints are imposed is a difficult task. For most practical problems classical scheduling easily leads to an exponential growth in the number of possible schedules. Moreover, a decision time period of hours or even minutes is too long. Good solutions ...

In this chapter the expression “holonic cyclic manufacturing systems” refers to complex assembly/disassembly systems or fork/join systems, kanban systems, and in general, to any discrete event system that transforms raw material and/or components into products. Such a system is said to be cyclic if it provides the same sequence of products indefinitely. This chapter considers the scheduling of ...