Injecting service-orientation into multi-agent systems in industrial automation

Authors:
J. Marco Mendes;Francisco Restivo;Paulo Leitão;Armando W. Colombo
Affiliations:
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal;Schneider Electric Automation GmbH, Seligenstadt, Germany
Venue:
ICAISC'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artifical intelligence and soft computing: Part II
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Service-oriented architecture and multi-agent systems are used in the research of novel control systems for industrial automation. This work presents the advance of service-orientation into multi-agent system in industrial automation. An overview of the concept of service-oriented agent is done and also the enhancements that services can bring to multi-agent systems. The documented topics of this work are based on the experiments and projects of the authors in the domain of distributed and component based automation systems. The outcome shows that there are many benefits, namely the aspects of knowledge representation, communication, plug & play, interactions, beside others. These contribute to the vision of future automation systems, where flexibility and customization are strong arguments.