Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Technical Cooperation that Transcends Cultural Differences
DIISM '93 Proceedings of the JSPE/IFIP TC5/WG5.3 Workshop on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing
A Formal Specification of dMARS
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Using agent teams to model enterprise behaviour
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Innovations in intelligent agent technology
A flexible plan step execution model for BDI agents
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Innovations in intelligent agent technology
On-line econometric modeling of the manufacturing system and process
MAMECTIS'09 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical methods, computational techniques and intelligent systems
Holonic multi-agent system model for fuzzy automatic speech / speaker recognition
KES-AMSTA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd KES International conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Assessment of the competitive management efficiency in the manufacturing processes
ICOSSSE '09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS international conference on System science and simulation in engineering
A goal-based approach to holonic manufacturing
HoloMAS'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Industrial applications of holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing
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Holonic systems are systems that are modelled in terms of components (holons) that have their own unique identity but are part of a larger whole. This larger whole is known as a holarchy. The manufacturing community has recognised the potential benefits of the holonic approach and it has attracted much interest over the past decade. This paper describes elements of a reference model for holonic manufacturing systems in which holons are characterised by the services that they provide and the services that they require other holons to perform on their behalf. In addition, individual holon behaviours are specified in terms of services, providing the ability for behaviours to be specified in a resource independent manner. We expect that this will result in the construction of systems that are easier to understand, extend and modify. An implementation of the model for the control of an industrial strength manufacturing system is described. An interesting feature of the manufacturing system is that the existing controllers are retained, thus demonstrating that holonic control can be implemented using conventional control hardware.