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AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Knowledge Management Handbook
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
A Concept for Bionic Manufacturing Systems Based on DNA-type Information
Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 / WG5.3 Eight International PROLAMAT Conference on Human Aspects in Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Automatic generation of control software in computer-integrated manufacturing
Automatic generation of control software in computer-integrated manufacturing
Self-reconfigurable software architecture: design and implementation
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Special issue: Computational intelligence and information technology applications to industrial engineering selected papers from the 33 rd ICC&IE
CPM: A collaborative process modeling for cooperative manufacturers
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Enterprise modeling of a project-oriented fractal company for SMEs networking
Computers in Industry
Self-evolution framework of manufacturing systems based on fractal organization
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Self-reconfigurable software architecture: Design and implementation
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A RFID Based Agile Manufacturing Planning and Control System
RSKT '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology
A multi-agent based agile manufacturing planning and control system
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Intentional agency framework based on cognitive concepts to realize adaptive system management
ICNC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part II
Modelling and simulation of dynamically integrated manufacturing systems
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
A closed-loop feedback simulation for RFID-based manufacturing planning and control system
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
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In order to respond to a rapidly changing manufacturing environment and market, manufacturing systems must be flexible, adaptable, and reusable. The fractal manufacturing system (FrMS) is one of the new manufacturing paradigms that address the need for these characteristics. The FrMS is comprised of a number of "basic components", each of which consists of five functional modules: (1) an observer, (2) an analyzer, (3) an organizer, (4) a resolver, and (5) a reporter. Each of these modules, using agent technology, autonomously cooperates and negotiates with others while processing its own jobs. The resulting architecture has a high degree of self-similarity, one of the main characteristics of a fractal. Despite the many conceptual advantages of the FrMS, it has not been successfully elaborated and implemented to date because of the difficulties involved in doing so. In this paper, the static functions and dynamic activities of each agent are modeled using the unified modeling language (UML). Then, relationships among agents, working mechanisms of each agent, and several fractal-specific characteristics (self-similarity, self-organization, and goal-orientation) are modeled using the UML. Then, a method for dealing with several types of information such as products, orders, and resources in the FrMS is presented. Finally, a preliminary prototype for the FrMS using AgletsTM is presented.