Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
An Architectural Framework for CKBS Applications
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Formalizing an Engineering Approach to Cooperating Knowledge-Based Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
A Database Perspective to a Cooperation Environment
CIA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents
An Open Architecture for Holonic Cooperation and Autonomy
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Temperature Equilibrium in Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
A Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Distributed System
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
AGENT WORK: a workflow system supporting rule-based workflow adaptation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Workflow management for enterprise transformation
Information-Knowledge-Systems Management - Work, Workflow, Information Systems and Enterprise Transformation
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In a Cooperating Knowledge Based System (CKBS) an agent is modelled as an autonomous and cooperative knowledge based system, capable of executing some tasks in the most effective way, using an engineering paradigm. The paper presents an abstract CKBS model, using Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) as an application domain. HMS is a major international project on agent-based manufacturing, where a holon is a unit of production and is a type of agent, cooperating with other agents in task sharing. This paper describes a highly distributed architecture of the model (designed to provide systems robustness and fault-tolerance) and the necessary computational model required to ensure the correct systems behaviour.