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Communications of the ACM
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AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Distributed problem solving and planning
Multiagent systems
Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Role of Acquaintance Models in Agent-Based Production Planning System
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control
Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control
Industrial Adoption of Agent-Based Technologies
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Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
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Computers in Industry
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CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
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This article presents and discusses the potential of agent technologies in the manufacturing domain. It reports on the authors' experiences in deploying an open, Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents-compliant agent-based solution in several industrial applications--namely, planning, simulation, and supply chain management. It primarily discuses and presents multiagent technologies' integration aspects. Besides the state-of-the-art review, the article provides a basic introduction to agent-based systems and lists requirements an application needs to be well suited to an agent-based solution. The articles' key contribution is its presentation of the ExPlanTech multiagent framework and technological architecture. The authors demonstrate the framework's general applicability through several use cases and in pivotal applications.