Title: Holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: Congresses, Expert systems (Computer science), Computer integrated manufacturing system, Manufacturing processes, Automation, Système multi-agents, Automatisation, Computer integrated manufacturing systems, Procédé de fabrication, Fabrication, Congrès, Systèmes experts (Informatique), Productique, Système expert, Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Computer aided design, Industrial engineering, Business logistics, Management information systems
LC classification: TS155.63 .I59 2003, TS155.63 .I59 2003