Value chain is identified as the generator of metabolic rift between nature and society. However, sustainable value can mitigate reverse this rift. In paper, firstly, a review main digital enablers Industry 4.0 current state cognitive manufacturing carried out. Secondly, Cyber-Physical Systems are conceived from holonic paradigm, an organizational enabler for whole enablers. Thirdly, bijective ...

Holonic control is generally used in reconfigurable manufacturing systems since the modularity of holonic control holds the promise of easier reconfiguration, reduction in complexity and cost, along with increased maintainability and reliability. As an alternative to the commonly used agent-based approach, this paper presents an Erlang-based holon internal architecture and implementation method...

Production systems must be reconfigurable and endowed with methods and tools allowing an automatic recovery of expected and unexpected errors. In this domain, error recovery in production systems is always an open problem. Multiagent systems seem to be adapted for representing this kind of problem in an attempt to arrive at a reconfigurable, adaptive, and “intelligent” manufacturing systems. Th...

This chapter introduces an agent-oriented software process for engineering complex systems called ASPECS. ASPECS is based on a holonic organizational metamodel and provides a step-by-step guide from requirements to code, allowing the modeling of a system with different levels of details using a set of refinement methods. This chapter introduces the ASPECS process using the documentation templat...

A power distribution system (PDS) of the future will have homes with smart meters to monitor energy consumption, on-site grid-connected solar or wind generation, battery storage, and plug-in vehicles. The feeders will have advanced power electronic switching devices to control the system, sensors at strategic locations to measure flow of real and reactive power, voltage and current. The current...

Nowadays, software systems are more and more frequently designed in order to realize complex dynamical behavior for solving complicated problems. Holonic Multi Agent Systems (HMAS) is spreading for the development of such systems since they allow to manage system requirements in terms of behaviors and organizational patterns. Traditional software engineering metrics are not useful for measuring...

Composition of processes for virtual enterprises is a significant issue. Although the flexible architecture provided by holonic manufacturing system (HMS) paves the way for adaptive composition of virtual enterprise processes, it also poses challenges in planning processes for virtual enterprises. The challenges are due, in part, to the loosely coupled structure of holons and also to the comple...

Numerous works aim to design agents and multi-agent systems architectures in order to enable cooperation and coordination between agents. Most of them use organizational structures or societies metaphor to define the MAS architecture. It seems improbable that a rigid unscalable organization could handle a real world problem, so it is interesting to provide agents with abilities to self-organize...

Airport Baggage Handling is a field of automation systems that is currently dependent on centralised control systems and conventional automation programming techniques. In this and other areas of manufacturing and materials handling, these legacy automation technologies are increasingly limiting for the growing demand for systems that are reconfigurable, fault tolerant and easy to maintain. IEC...