Holons & Agents: Recent Developments and Mutual Impacts
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DEXA '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
A Holonic Component-Based Approach to Reconfigurable Manufacturing Control Architecture
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Rockwell automation agents for manufacturing
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Using radio frequency identification in agent-based control systems for industrial applications
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Methods to Observe the Clustering of Agents Within a Multi-Agent System
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Agent-based distributed manufacturing control: A state-of-the-art survey
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Using radio frequency identification in agent-based manufacturing control systems
HoloMAS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
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Many modern manufacturing systems are highly automated and are now requiring decentralised 'smart' architectures to control hardware and manage the flow of materials/knowledge, in order to provide responsiveness. This responsiveness is needed to satisfy an ever increasing consumer need for goods that satisfy their unique requirements and are delivered to market both quickly and economically. A key route to achieve this mass-customisation with distributed control is to apply the holonic enterprise paradigm, and one manufacturing process that exhibits a high potential for responsiveness is packaging. Therefore this paper presents some of the main features of such an enterprise - the Holonic Packing Cell demonstrator being built at Cambridge University's Institute for Manufacturing. It must be emphasised that this cell is constructed from state-of-the-art industrial strength facilities to demonstrate a spectrum of responsive manufacturing ideas - it is not built from Lego bricks.