This paper presents a literature review on the architectures of complex multi-agent systems. Firstly, the concept of general architectures and three orientations of systems architectures, i.e., information flow oriented, control oriented and role oriented ones, are presented. Secondly, a literature review is presented upon the architectures of complex multi-agent systems in terms of control ori...

This paper reports on the design and realization of an agent-oriented control system dedicated for material flow systems. The implementation is based on DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model). Regarding the increasing availability, performance and acceptance of distributed object-oriented systems as well as the growing number of agent-oriented software it is natural to adapt and use the capa...

Aspect-oriented approaches have commonly advocated separation of concerns. Some approaches have applied this separation in a symmetric fashion, like Hyper/J, whereas some others have relied on asymmetric separation, like AspectJ. The difference in the approaches is that the different concerns play a symmetric role in the former, whereas the latter explicitly includes a conventional implementati...

The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an approach to provide flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process management. This modular approach to defining business flows as technology independent services has gained unanimous popularity among end-users and technology vendors alike. Although there is a significant amount of ongoing ...

The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an approach to provide flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process management. This modular approach to defining business flows as technology independent services has gained unanimous popularity among end-users and technology vendors alike. Although there is a significant amount of research...

This paper presents a Petri net-based method for deadlock control in flexible assembly systems (FAS). Instead of a process-oriented modeling method, a resource-oriented Petri net modeling method is used. A new control policy is thus formulated and proved to outperform the existing one in the literature. The deadlock problem in FAS is often more difficult since deadlock can arise from improper b...

Aspect mining tries to identify crosscutting concerns in the code of existing systems and thus supports their adaption to an aspect-oriented design. A semi-automatic static aspect mining approach is described, where the program’s control flow graphs are investigated for recurring execution patterns based on different constraints, such as the requirement that the patterns have to exist in differ...

We described the information transfer and communication activities of nurse coordinators (NCO), who lead patient flow management in a major trauma center. A field study was conducted to identify information sources and information tools used, leading purposes of communication, and the information types NCOs need for patient flow management. In addition to verbal communication, NCOs frequently u...