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)
Editorial: Special issue on multi-agent and holonic systems in manufacturing
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
A multiagent-based control system applied to an educational shop floor
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Robustness analysis of holonic assembly/disassembly processes with Petri nets
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Developing cooperation mechanism for multi-agent systems with Petri nets
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
Robustness of deadlock control for a class of Petri nets with unreliable resources
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Although holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) are recognized as a paradigm to cope with the changes in manufacturing environment based on a flexible architecture, development of reconfiguration mechanism is required to realize the advantages of HMS. Finding a solution from scratch to deal with changes in HMS is not an appropriate approach as it may lead to chaos at the shop floor. The objective of this paper is to propose a viable design methodology to achieve effective reconfiguration in HMS based on the cooperation of holons. We formulate and study a holarchy reconfiguration problem and define an impact function to characterize the impact of resource failures on different holons in a holarchy. A collaborative reconfiguration algorithm based on the impact function is proposed to effectively reconfigure the systems to achieve minimal cost solutions.