Flexible Manufacturing Control with PLC, CNC, and Software-Agents
ISADS '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Service-oriented device communications using the devices profile for web services
MPAC '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing
An agent-based service-oriented integration architecture for collaborative intelligent manufacturing
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Service-Oriented Architectures for Embedded Systems Using Devices Profile for Web Services
AINAW '07 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops - Volume 01
Industrial application integration using the unification approach to agent-enabled semantic SOA
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Service Composition in Holonic Multiagent Systems: Model-Driven Choreography and Orchestration
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
An e-Engineering framework based on service-oriented architecture and agent technologies
Computers in Industry
SOA in reconfigurable supply chains: A research roadmap
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems
HoloMAS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
SOCRADES: a web service based shop floor integration infrastructure
IOT'08 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on The internet of things
IT and the mass customization of services: the challenge of implementation
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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New trends in the automation industry indicate that manufacturing companies can improve their response to the constantly changing market demands for customized products by adopting the design principles from the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in their control and automation systems. With this goal in mind, the EU FP6 IST project Service-Oriented Cross-layer infRAstructure for Distributed smart Embedded devices (SOCRADES), researched the creation of manufacturing systems with distributed control architectures, where Web Services (WS)s are pushed all the way down to the device level. The results of this research allowed us to expose the functionality of production equipment by means of WSs and use them according to the SOA principles; however, it was found that it is necessary to count with a mechanism for ensuring smart and dynamic composition of these WSs on the factory floor. It is presumed that agent-based technology has the potential of providing the required level of intelligence, if it can be properly combined with WSs on manufacturing systems. This article describes the specification of a WS-enabled Decision Support System (DSS) integrated by a set of software agents. The agent-based system presented here is capable of supporting the dynamic composition and orchestration of WSs exposed by control devices on discrete manufacturing systems. In addition to the DSS specification, this paper also introduces a physical scenario which was used to test the proposed system. The developments and results presented here were also done within the framework of the SOCRADES project.