Artificial intelligence: a new synthesis
Artificial intelligence: a new synthesis
Holonic manufacturing scheduling: architecture, cooperation mechanism and implementation
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance (APICS Series on Resource Management)
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Model and control holonic manufacturing systems based on fusion of contract nets and Petri nets
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Analysis of contract net in multi-agent systems
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Developing cooperation mechanism for multi-agent systems with Petri nets
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Workflow Planning in Holonic Manufacturing Systems with Extended Contract Net Protocol
IEA/AIE '09 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: Next-Generation Applied Intelligence
PROSIS: An isoarchic structure for HMS control
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Dynamic composition of holonic processes to satisfy timing constraints with minimal costs
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Brief paper: Collaborative reconfiguration mechanism for holonic manufacturing systems
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Semi-heterarchical Allocation and Routing Processes in FMS Control: A Stigmergic Approach
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
The product quality control method for extended enterprises based on holonic
IITA'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intelligent information technology application
Design of reconfiguration mechanism for holonic manufacturing systems based on formal models
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Collaborative composition of processes in holonic manufacturing systems
Computers in Industry
Context-aware workflow management based on formal knowledge representation models
ICCCI'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part II
Collaborative workflow management in holonic multi-agent systems
KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Pull control for job shop: holonic manufacturing system approach using multicriteria decision-making
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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Holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) is based on the notion of holon, an autonomous, cooperative and intelligent entity to provide a econfigurable, flexible and decentralized manufacturing environment to respond to changing needs and opportunities. A set of holons that cooperate to achieve a goal forms a holarchy. How to design a mechanism to form a holarchy to achieve a goal while minimizing the overall cost is a challenge. The objectives of this paper are to propose models and develop collaborative algorithms to guide the holons to form a holarchy to coherently move toward the desired goal state ultimately. We adopt contract net protocol (CNP) to model mutual selection of holons in forming a holarchy. We formulate a holarchy optimization problem to minimize the cost subject to the feasibility constraints. To analyze the feasibility of a holarchy, a Petri net (PN) model is proposed. As classical PN models do not take into account the cost involved in firing transitions, we augment the PN model with cost functions in the problem formulation. Due to the distributed architecture of HMS, the internal structure of each potential holarchy that acts as bidder in CNP is not available to the manager. A key issue is to determine the feasibility of a holarchy without constructing the whole PN model of the given hierarchy. We study the feasible conditions for a holarchy and propose a collaborative algorithm to analyze the feasibility and award contracts to holons without constructing the whole model of a holarchy.