A simulation test-bed to evaluate multi-agent control of manufacturing systems
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Industrial MAS for Planning and Control
Proceedings of the 9th ECCAI-ACAI/EASSS 2001, AEMAS 2001, HoloMAS 2001 on Multi-Agent-Systems and Applications II-Selected Revised Papers
Material Handling Problem: FIPA Compliant Agent Implementation
Proceedings of the 9th ECCAI-ACAI/EASSS 2001, AEMAS 2001, HoloMAS 2001 on Multi-Agent-Systems and Applications II-Selected Revised Papers
FIPA-OS Agent Platform for Small-Footprint Devices
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Evaluating the FIPA Standards and Its Role in Achieving Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Self-Organizing Manufacturing Control: An Industrial Application of Agent Technology
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Industrial Adoption of Agent-Based Technologies
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
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Agent-based technologies in production control systems could facilitate seamless reconfiguration and integration of mechatronic devices/modules into systems. Advances in embedded controllers which are continuously improving computational capabilities allow for software modularization and distribution of decisions. Agent platforms running on embedded controllers could hide the complexity of bootstrap and communication. Therefore, it is important to investigate the messaging performance of the agents whose main motivation is the resource allocation in manufacturing systems (i.e., conveyor system). The tests were implemented using the FIPA-compliant JADE-LEAP agent platform. Agent containers were distributed through networked embedded controllers, and agents were communicating using request and contract-net FIPA interaction protocols. The test scenarios are organized in intercontainer and intracontainer communications. The work shows the messaging performance for the different test scenarios using both interaction protocols.