Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering - Special issue: intelligent manufacturing systems
The industrial virtual enterprise
Communications of the ACM
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
Virtual enterprise — Information system and networking solution
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Co-ordination in Multi-Agent Systems
Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence, Concepts and Applications
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
The Virtual Enterprise Concept
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
A web-based manufacturing service system for rapid product development
Computers in Industry
Agent-based model for managing composite product information
Computers in Industry
Enterprise modeling of a project-oriented fractal company for SMEs networking
Computers in Industry
On-line econometric modeling of the manufacturing system and process
MAMECTIS'09 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical methods, computational techniques and intelligent systems
Agent-based model for managing composite product information
Computers in Industry
Holonic multi-agent system model for fuzzy automatic speech / speaker recognition
KES-AMSTA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd KES International conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Assessment of the competitive management efficiency in the manufacturing processes
ICOSSSE '09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS international conference on System science and simulation in engineering
Agent learning in autonomic manufacturing execution systems for enterprise networking
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Holonic manufacturing is a highly distributed control paradigm based on a kind of autonomous and cooperative entity called "holon". It can both guarantee performance stability, predictability and global optimization of hierarchical control, and provide flexibility and adaptability of heterarchical control. A virtual enterprise (VE) is a temporary coalition of distributed, autonomous and cooperative member enterprises (MEs) and its organizational architecture has typical features of holonic systems. In this paper, we present some studies on the application of the holonic manufacturing paradigm to virtual enterprise control. A holonic framework for virtual enterprises is first proposed and control mechanisms of virtual enterprises under this framework are then discussed. Virtual enterprise control considered in this paper can provide flexibility and adaptability of heterarchical control, reacting to changes and disturbances agilely. It also preserves stability of hierarchical control, having the ability to guarantee stability, predictability and global optimization of the system performance.