An agent-based service-oriented integration architecture for collaborative intelligent manufacturing

  • Authors:

  • Weiming Shen;Qi Hao;Shuying Wang;Yinsheng Li;Hamada Ghenniwa

  • Affiliations:

  • Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada, 800 Collip Circle, London, Ont., Canada N6G 4X8;Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada, 800 Collip Circle, London, Ont., Canada N6G 4X8;Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada, 800 Collip Circle, London, Ont., Canada N6G 4X8;Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada, 800 Collip Circle, London, Ont., Canada N6G 4X8 and Software School, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 PR China;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada. N6A 5B9

  • Venue:
  • Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The rapidly changing needs and opportunities of today's global market require unprecedented levels of interoperability to integrate diverse information systems to share knowledge and collaborate among organizations. The combination of Web services and software agents provides a promising computing paradigm for efficient service selection and integration of inter-organizational business processes. This paper proposes an agent-based service-oriented integration architecture to leverage manufacturing scheduling services on a network of virtual enterprises. A unique property of this approach is that the scheduling process of an order is orchestrated on the Internet through the negotiation among agent-based Web services. A software prototype system has been implemented for inter-enterprise manufacturing resource sharing. It demonstrates how the proposed service-oriented integration architecture can be used to establish a collaborative environment that provides dynamic resource scheduling services.