agents, in a multi agent system, communicate with each other through the process of exchanging messages which is called dialogue. multi agent organization is generally used to optimize agents’ communications. holonic organization demonstrates a self-similar recursive and hierarchical structure in which each holon may include some other holons. in a holonic system, lateral communication occurs b...

Holonic multi-agent systems (HOMAS) have their own properties that make them distinct from general multi-agent systems (MAS). They are neither like competitive multi-agent systems nor cooperative, and they have features from both of these categories. There are many circumstances that holonic agents need to negotiate. Agents involved in negotiations try to maximize their utility as well as their...

An open issue in self-organisation is how to control the emergence of behaviour. This issue is also of interest for engineering holonic multi-agent systems as any level of a holarchy is dependant of the emergent behaviours of its sub-levels. In order to tackle this specific feature of holonic multi-agent systems, the capacity concept which abstracts a know-how from its concrete realisation is i...

This paper proposes fuzzy entropy minimization as an emergent property of holonic structures. When applied in the context of multi-agent systems this emergent property leads to automatic clustering of the agents into holonic organizations. When modeling enterprises as software agents the property turns into an inherent characteristic of holonic virtual organizations that enables clustering the ...

Research on Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) is undergoing a huge amount of interest and developments. In spite of the great amount of effort devoted to architectures and algorithms for holonic control of manufacturing systems there are little work about design methodologies. In this work we present a multi agent methodology for analysis and design of HMS, it is based on an abstract agent de...

Agents, in a multi agent system, communicate with each other through the process of exchanging messages which is called dialogue. Multi agent organization is generally used to optimize agents’ communications. Holonic organization demonstrates a self-similar recursive and hierarchical structure in which each holon may include some other holons. In a holonic system, lateral communication occurs b...

Interaction networks are essential parts of every multi-agent systems. Being explicitly defined or implicitly present in a system, these structures define and limit the ways the agents should interact with their peers, and hence helps managing the coordination problems in large-scaled systems. It is widely accepted that the structure of an interaction network plays a significant role in the per...

Holonic manufacturing systems requires a robust and effective mechanism to reorganize available resources to cope with uncertainties to achieve the production goal. This paper combines the contract net protocol and Petri net to adaptively synthesize Petri net to control holonic manufacturing systems. The main results include: (1)a multi-agent model for holonic manufacturing systems based on con...

For many DAI researchers, autonomy is a vital definitional prerequisite for an agent. We argue that a strict commitment o this view is too rigorous and insufficient in complex and large-scale systems and propose the holonic agent paradigm, where the degree of autonomy in an agent society is dynamically adjusted to the problem at hand. A holonic agent is an agent which is composed of subagents, ...

Research on Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) is undergoing a huge amount of interest and developments. In spite of the great amount of effort devoted to architectures and algorithms for holonic control of manufacturing systems there are little work about design methodologies. In this work we present a multi agent approach for analysis of HMS, it is based on an abstract agent definition and t...