Holonic manufacturing scheduling: architecture, cooperation mechanism and implementation
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
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)
Developing cooperation mechanism for multi-agent systems with Petri nets
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Dynamic composition of holonic processes to satisfy timing constraints with minimal costs
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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
Analysis of contract net in multi-agent systems
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
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Holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) can be modeled as multi-agent systems to which contract net protocol can be effectively and robustly applied. However, the lack of analysis capability of contract nets makes it difficult to avoid undesirable states such as deadlocks in HMS. This paper presents a framework to model and control HMS based on fusion of Petri net and multi-agent system theory. The main results include: (1) a multi-agent model and a collaboration process to form commitment graphs in HMS based on contract net protocol, (2) a procedure to convert commitment graph to collaborative Petri net (CPN), and (3) feasible conditions and collaborative algorithms to award contracts in HMS based on CPNs.