Current business trends, policy markets, production requirements, etc., have created the need for integrating Multi Agent Systems (MAS). In the agent-specialized literature, we have found very little work about MAS methodologies that allow us to build MAS which is made up of two or more MASs. We think that several difficult challenges for automated systems can be tackled by giving full meaning ...

Future manufacturing systems will be required to be agile, flexible, and fault-tolerant. Next generation manufacturing systems will be integrated networks of distributed resources simultaneously capable of combined knowledge processing and material processing. The objective of this research is to define a generic open architecture for such kind of distributed manufacturing systems, especially f...

Nowadays, industrials are seeking for models and methods that are not only able to provide efficient overall production performance, but also reactive facing a growing set of unpredicted events. One important research activity in that field focuses on holonic/multi-agent control systems that couple predictive/proactive and reactive mechanisms into agents/holons. Meanwhile, not enough attention ...

Nowadays, systems are becoming increasingly complex, mainly due to an exponential increase in the number of entities and their interconnections. Examples of these complex systems can be found in manufacturing, smart-grids, traffic control, logistics, economics and biology, among others. Due to this complexity, particularly in manufacturing, a lack of responsiveness in coping with demand for hig...

This paper is concerned with providing a clear business basis for the emerging research field of holonic manufacturing systems. The holonic approach is to develop highly flexible manufacturing operations from a set of readily reconfigurable building blocks, which are designed to integrate easily and collaborate dynamically with one another as production demand changes. The business basis is ass...

This work proposes a scheme for the formation of holonic agents in a multiagentsystem acting in a dynamic environment. This model captures cooperative holonic multiagent-systems in which each agent has incomplete, vague and erroneous information about the other agents and about its dynamic and uncertain world. Holons are temporarily formed to ful ll complex tasks, that a single agent cannot han...

The application of pattern recognition (PR) techniques, expert systems (ESs), artificial neural networks (ANNs), fuzzy systems (FSs) and nowadays hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in manufacturing can be regarded as consecutive elements of a process started two decades ago. On the one hand, the paper outlines the most important steps of this process and introduces some new results ...

The paper reports on first experiences with modern web-based technologies used in building the human-machine interfaces for the industrial automation applications. It mainly focuses on distributed and intelligent manufacturing control systems designed according to holonic, multi-agent, or service-oriented principles. We briefly introduce Google Web Toolkit, and HTML5, which are gaining increasi...

Very few industries can benefit more from maximizing supply chain efficiencies than the oil and gas companies. However, the behavior of such supply chains is too complex to be modeled analytically. Multi-agent systems show great similarity with respect to supply chains and provide the flexibility to model the complexities and dynamics of real world supply chains without excessive simplifying as...