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
ADACOR: a holonic architecture for agile and adaptive manufacturing control
Computers in Industry
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Holarchy formation and optimization in holonic manufacturing systems with contract net
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
A holonic approach to dynamic manufacturing scheduling
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
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)
Distributed control of production systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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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The flexible architecture provided by holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) poses challenges in planning and control of production processes. The challenges are due, in part, to the loosely coupled structure of holons and also to the complex interactions among holons. Development of new methodologies is required to optimize the holonic processes in HMS to achieve the objectives. In this paper, we concentrate on the development of method for the composition of holonic processes. We consider the holonic processes composition (HPC) problem to synthesize processes with minimal costs while meeting the timing constraints in HMS. We formulate this problem based on a hybrid model in which contract net protocol is adopted as the negotiation protocol and timed Petri net is used to analyze the timing and resource constraints. To specify the costs of operations, we augment the timed Petri net with a cost function. We formulate an optimization problem to minimize the cost while meeting the timing constraints based on the Petri net models. A solution to HPC can be represented by a collaborative Petri net. Our methodologies include a condition to check whether the timing constraints can be met, a condition for the existence of an optimal solution to the HPC problem and a multi-layer contract net protocol to find the minimal cost solution.