ARCHON: a distributed artificial intelligence system for industrial application
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Agents for complex control systems
Automation, control and complexity
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
On the identification of agents in the design of production control systems
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
A multi-agent system architecture for coordination of just-in-time production and distribution
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
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
DEXA '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
An Agent-Based Approach to Monitoring and Control of District Heating Systems
IEA/AIE '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: developments in applied artificial intelligence
Design Patterns for the Development of Multi-Agent Systems
Revised Papers from the Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems: Methodologies and Applications
Information Agents Handling Semantic Data as an Extension to Process Monitoring Systems
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Multi-Agent System for Hierarchical Control with Self-organising Database
KES-AMSTA '07 Proceedings of the 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
PRIMA '08 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards a customized methodology to develop multi-agent systems
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
Information access and control operations in multi-agent system based process automation
HoloMAS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Intelligent agent based framework for manufacturing systems control
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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A more promising technology to integrate existing software systems and their functionalities and to add assistant systems for the shop floors is to be found in software agents. Concerning with the applications of agent technology to intelligent process automation systems, a flexible and extensible approach based on multi-agent system (MAS) and distributed planning technique to reach for increased flexibility and fault-tolerance in process monitoring and control operations is proposed. The monitoring operations are aimed at combining information from different sources depending on the monitoring tasks. The control operations are supervisory control tasks performing either in both sequential and iterative forms. The agent layer is used for monitoring the operations of the lower-level automation systems and reconfiguring its control logic. It operates as a distributed planning and plan execution system to increase the operational flexibility of the whole process automation systems. The software architecture and its functionalities and components for the implementation of the proposed approach are also presented. The design strategy and the discussion on the proposed approach are provided.