Integrating communicative action, conversations and decision theory to coordinate agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Applications of intelligent agents
Agent technology
Resource Allocation in Distributed Factory Scheduling
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling Using Intelligent Agents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
An IMS Test Case - Global Manufacturing
APMS '93 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.7 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems
An Open Architecture for Holonic Cooperation and Autonomy
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Handbook on Enterprise Architecture
Handbook on Enterprise Architecture
CIM-still the solution for manufacturing industry
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Industrial application integration using the unification approach to agent-enabled semantic SOA
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A web-based multi-agent system for distributed digital manufacturing
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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
Multi-agent-based supply chain management: a case study of requisites
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Dynamic change handling for inter-organisational workflows in open virtual eMarketplaces
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
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
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Today's global competitions are forcing enterprises to rely on integrated manufacturing systems to satisfy constantly changing market requirements. Whereas Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) often feel difficult to compete with large organisations due to having insufficient resources. By integrating resources of many partners, the SMEs can form global integrated manufacturing systems in the form of Virtual CIM (VCIM) and thus achieve a competitive edge. VCIM is a concept towards integrating globally distributed manufacturing resources across enterprise boundaries. In order to implement VCIM, this research project develops an agent-based architecture to support the integration and scheduling of distributed manufacturing resources. This architecture accommodates all agents for VCIM with a three-layered structure and permits new agents to be connected with the existing structure through the Internet when and where necessary. In this architecture, many Facilitator agents coordinate activities of manufacturing resources in a parallel manner. Meanwhile, the Facilitator agents achieve proposal messages through agent negotiation based on distributed resources' real time information and use a backward network algorithm for shortest-path to perform optimisation for resource allocation. With these approaches, an optimised production schedule has the lowest cost as the primary criteria and the shortest production time as the secondary criteria while satisfying customer required due date/time and delivering destination.