Bidding-based process planning and scheduling in a multi-agent system
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A multi-agent approach to process planning and fabrication in distributed manufacturing
ICC&IE Selected papers from the 22nd ICC&IE conference on Computers & industrial engineering
AgentGateway: a communication tool for multi-agent systems
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Internet computing
A Multi-Agent Based Negotiation Support System for Distributed Transmission Cost Allocation
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
A generic architecture for adaptive agents based on reinforcement learning
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Special issue: Bio-inspired systems (BIS)
On the design of intelligent robotic agents for assembly
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Special issue: Intelligent embedded agents
Agent-based computational modeling of the stock price-volume relation
Information Sciences: an International Journal - Special issue: Computational intelligence in economics and finance
Analysis on the performance of mobile agents for query retrieval
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
Workflow management and resource discovery for an intelligent grid
Parallel Computing - Heterogeneous computing
Editorial: Computationally intelligent agents in economics and finance
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Using cooperative mobile agents to monitor distributed and dynamic environments
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
An agent-based approach for predictions based on multi-dimensional complex data
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Editorial: Soft computing meets agents
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Agent-based architecture for designing hybrid control systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A genetic fuzzy agent using ontology model for meeting scheduling system
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Optimal fuzzy control system using the cross-entropy method. A case study of a drilling process
Information Sciences: an International Journal
ANGLE: An autonomous, normative and guidable agent with changing knowledge
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Searching for overlapping coalitions in multiple virtual organizations
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Autonomous malicious activity inspector - AMAI
NLDB'10 Proceedings of the Natural language processing and information systems, and 15th international conference on Applications of natural language to information systems
Autonomic tracing of production processes with mobile and agent-based computing
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Self-organizing state aggregation for architecture design of Q-learning
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Applications of agent-based models for optimization problems: A literature review
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Induced states in a decision tree constructed by Q-learning
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Categorization of malicious behaviors using ontology-based cognitive agents
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Policy sharing between multiple mobile robots using decision trees
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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In the recent years, the competition of shortening the development cycle of new products is more and more fierce. Given the shortcomings of traditional scheduling algorithm in Intelligent Manufacturing, the architecture of multi-agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing System is put forward, which represents the basic processing entity. The architecture is based on the methodology of multi-agent systems (MAS) in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI). The multi-agent system has some common characteristics, such as distribution, autonomy, interaction and openness, which are helpful to transform the traditional architecture into a distributed and cooperative architecture in an Intelligent Manufacturing System. To develop a multi-agent-based scheduling system for Intelligent Manufacturing, it is necessary to build various functional agents for all the resources and an agent manager to improve the scheduling agility. In this paper, the proposed architecture consists of various autonomous agents that are capable of communicating with each other and making decisions based on their knowledge. The architecture of Intelligent Manufacturing, the scheduling optimization algorithm, the negotiation processes and protocols among the agents are described in detail. A prototype system is built and validated in an illustrative example, which demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed approach. The experiments prove that the implementation of multi-agent technology in Intelligent Manufacturing System makes the operations much more flexible, economical and energy-efficient.