Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
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)
Agent-based distributed manufacturing control: A state-of-the-art survey
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Dynamic composition of holonic processes to satisfy timing constraints with minimal costs
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Brief paper: Collaborative reconfiguration mechanism for holonic manufacturing systems
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
ADACOR: A holonic architecture for agile and adaptive manufacturing control
Computers in Industry
Collaborative composition of processes in holonic manufacturing systems
Computers in Industry
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
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One of the key design issues of holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) is to effectively respond to resource failures based on the flexible holonic architecture. The objective of this paper is to propose a viable design methodology to implement reconfiguration mechanism in HMS. A reconfiguration mechanism is developed to accommodate changes based on collaboration of holons without leading to chaos at the shop floor. To deal with resource failures in HMS, an impact function is defined to characterize the impact of resource failures on different holons in a holarchy. A collaborative reconfiguration mechanism based on an impact function is proposed to effectively reconfigure the systems to achieve minimal cost solutions. The design and implementation methodology combines contract net protocol for negotiation of holons, Petri net for the representation of individual product holons and resource holons and FIPA-compliant agent platform for publication/discovery of holons. A simulation system is developed to verify the proposed reconfiguration mechanism.