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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing: First International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2003, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-3, 2003. Proceedings

By Vladimir Mařík , William A. Gruver , Dilip B. Kotak , Edwin H. van Leeuwen , Douglas Norrie (auth.) , Duncan McFarlane , Paul Valckenaers (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2003
ISBN
3540407510, 9783540407515
DOI
10.1007/b11833
Open Library ID
OL18204916M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5633278 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2744 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
1
Pages
328\333
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); ComputerCAE) and Design; Industrial and Production Enginee

Description

The increasing complexity of manufacturing systems as well as the overall demands for flexible and fault-tolerant control of production processes stimulates (among many others) two key emerging technologies that are already making an important breakthrough in the field of intelligent manufacturing, control, and diagnostics. These two paradigms are: • the holonic approach based on the event-driven control strategy, usually aimed at modular control systems that are directly physically linked with the manufacturing hardware equipment, and • the multi-agent approach developed in the area of distributed information processing. The research communities working in both these fields are approaching the problem of intelligent manufacturing from different viewpoints and, until recently, to a certain extent, in an independent way. We can however observe quite a clear convergence of these fields in the last few years: the communities have started to cooperate, joining efforts to solve the painful problems involved in achieving effective industrial practice. We can see convergence in the terminology, standards and methods being applied.

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