The Componentbased Design Method for Agentbased MultiAGV System The agentbased multiAGV system is envisioned to be highly flexible and adaptable for the evolving requirement of industrial automation. However, the current design method of the automation software remains monolithic and is still based on the centralized control mechanism, which makes the system engineers struggle with the complexity of the development process under the distributed system requirements. This paper applies componentbased design method and the embedded agent architecture for multiAGV system to reduce the agent design effort and improve the flexibility of the design process, and proposes a taskoriented component granularity partitioning method. A multiAGV system in laboratory level test scenario verifies the easyandflexibleusing of this investigation.

Deployment of Industrial Agents in a Smart Parking System In recent years, the intense urbanization, and consequently the traffic congestion, has been a major concern of large cities. In this context, the development of smart parkings is a suitable solution to deal with this problem. However, the complexity and requirements imposed by such largescale systems are an obstacle to its easy implementation. In this sense, it is fundamental to adopt emergent ICT and Artificial Intelligence technologies that are capable to address the imposed requirements. MultiAgent Systems (MAS) is a suitable approach to face this challenge by providing modularity, flexibility, reconfigurability and fast response to condition change based on its decentralized nature. The use of such agentbased solutions to control physical assets, create novel systems entitled CyberPhysical Systems (CPS) where the interconnection between the cyber and the physical parts is a crucial issue. This paper focuses the interface between the software agents of a smart parking system with the physical control devices of the parking spots. For this purpose, different interface practices were implemented and tested, considering different interaction schemes and technologies. These alternative interface practices were analyzed taking into consideration the response time, scalability and reusability parameters.