On the identification of agents in the design of production control systems
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
Messy Systems - The Target for Multi Agent Based Simulation
MABS '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation-Revised and Additional Papers
Application of multi-agent planning to the assignment problem
Computers in Industry
Towards a paradigm change in computer science and software engineering: a synthesis
The Knowledge Engineering Review
No Pervasive Computing without Intelligent Systems
BT Technology Journal
A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Proactive Supply-Chain Event Management with Agent Technology
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Intelligent systems in the automotive industry: applications and trends
Knowledge and Information Systems
Self-organization in manufacturing operations
Communications of the ACM
Robust coordination to sustain throughput of an unstable agent network
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Messaging performance of FIPA interaction protocols in networked embedded controllers
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - Embedded System Design in Intelligent Industrial Automation
Distributed Director Facilitator in a Multiagent Platform for Networked Embedded Controllers
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
RA '07 Proceedings of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications
Signs of a revolution in computer science and software engineering
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Industrial application of agent systems: lessons learned and future challenges
MATES'09 Proceedings of the 7th German conference on Multiagent system technologies
Intelligent information agents
Executable specifications of resource-bounded agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Time-synchronizing control of self-organizing shop floors for networked manufacturing
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Programming groups of rational agents
CLIMA IV'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Agent-Based simulation for testing control software of high bay warehouses
MATES'05 Proceedings of the Third German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
Egalitarian allocations of indivisible resources: theory and computation
CIA'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cooperative Information Agents
Natural Computing: an international journal
Cyber-physical systems: imminent challenges
Proceedings of the 17th Monterey conference on Large-Scale Complex IT Systems: development, operation and management
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We present an auction-based approach to manufacturing control. Workpieces auction off their current task, while machines bid for tasks. When awarding a machine, a workpiece takes into account not only the machine's current work in process, but also the outgoing flow of material. If a machine's outgoing stream is blocked, eventually the machine will not accept a new workpiece, thus blocking its input stream as well. As a result, a capacity bottleneck is automatically propagated in the opposite direction of the material flow. A unique feature of this mechanism is that it does not presuppose any specific material flow; the current capacity bottleneck is always propagated in the opposite direction of the actual flow, no matter what this flow looks like.This paper includes a detailed analysis of the mechanism, including a formal proof of its freedom of deadlocks. DaimlerChrysler evaluated the new control approach as a bypass to an existing manufacturing line. A suite of performance tests demonstrated the industrial feasibility and the benefits of the approach.