Integration of process operations involves the coordinated management of operational tasks in a process plant. In the context of chemical process plants, these tasks can be categorised as data acquisition, regulatory control, data reconciliation, process monitoring, fault diagnosis, supervisory control, scheduling and planning. While each of these tasks is responsible for a particular function,...

In this paper we propose a process algebra named CCB (a Calculus of Countable Broadcasting Systems). We define an observational congruence relation in CCB after basic definitions of CCB, and give a sound and complete axiom system for the congruence relation of finite agents. CCB is developed for analyzing a multi-agent model with broadcast communication. The most important property of CCB is th...

Security is essential for e-health system as it provides highly sensitive distributed medical data and exchanged among the healthcare professionals, customers and providers over Internet. Internet is an open access system that allows anyone to participate and access the data. Hence, it is necessary to protect the data, service from the unauthorized visibility, use and also maintain a high degre...

The aim of this work is to deene a paradigm which supports the routing of demands across distinct network domains. The distributed nature of this problem (the network resources are spatially distributed and distinct domains can be heterogeneous environments) and the constraints imposed by the environment suggest the use of distributed problem solving methodologies and multi-agent technology. In...

Since consideration of individual customer’ demands is of increasing importance, enterprises are in need of more flexible production and participate in supply chains or virtual enterprises to complement one another. However, participating enterprises have to meet several requirements such as providing a specified product at a defined time to the customer reliably. Customers will switch to other...

Nowadays, one of the greatest challenges companies have to face is the change towards flexible and demand-driven production. More information has to be handled and a considerable speed-up of development and manufacturing processes is needed. However, the actual situation is characterized by strong borderlines between process planning, production control and scheduling systems, caused by extreme...