Ahstract-Multi-agent systems paradigm is a suitable approach to implement distributed manufacturing systems addressing the emergent requirements of flexibility, robustness and responsiveness. In such systems, an ontology is a crucial piece to provide a common understanding on the vocabulary used by the intelligent, distributed agents during the exchange of shared knowledge. This paper describes the design of an ontology to define the structure of the knowledge that is used within a multi-agent system integrating process and quality control in production lines for home appliances, which is being developed within the EU FP7 GRACE (inteGration of pRocess and quAlity Control using multi-agEnt technology) project. The ontology schema is validated by instantiating for a case study derived from a washing machines production line.
While in Paper REF , authors report on the design of ontology within a multi-agent system integrating process and quality control for washing machine production lines.
GRACE ontology inteGrating pRocess and quAlity Control
IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
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