Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control
Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control
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E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
E Pluribus Unum: Polyagent and Delegate MAS Architectures
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VIII
Intelligent products: Agere versus Essere
Computers in Industry
Multi-agent coordination and control system for multi-vehicle agricultural operations
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
PROSA and delegate MAS in robotics
HoloMAS'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Industrial applications of holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing
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BDI-based agent architectures have proven their usefulness in building MASs for complex systems - their explicit attention for coping with dynamic environments is one obvious explanation for this. One large and quite interesting family of MAS applications is characterized (1) by their large scale in terms of number of agents and physical distribution, (2) by their very dynamic nature and (3) by their complex functional and non-functional requirements. This family includes a.o. manufacturing control, traffic control and web service coordination. In this paper, we present an innovative approach to BDI agents which alleviates agent complexity through "delegate MASs". Delegate MASs consist of light-weight agents, which are issued either by resources for building and maintaining information on the environment, or by task agents in order to explore the options on behalf of the agents and to coordinate their intentions.