Applications of intelligent agents
Agent technology
Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
A Machinery Control System using Mobile Agents
ISADS '99 Proceedings of the The Fourth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
The AARIA agent architecture: From manufacturing requirements to agent-based system design
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
An agent-oriented mobile payment system secured using a biometrics approach
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
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Recently, environments surrounding the manufacturing systems are changing very rapidly. Flexibility is one of the key features in future manufacturing systems. The traditional hierarchical systems used in manufacturing systems has difficulty satisfying this demand since they deal poorly with unexpected situations. To achieve flexibility in manufacturing systems, the concept of an autonomous decentralized system is useful. We introduce agents that work autonomously in the system to build an autonomous decentralized manufacturing system. This paper describes the concept and software architecture of the agent-based manufacturing control system we propose. The system introduces dispatching mechanism for execution control level in the manufacturing systems. We also explain a prototype system actually developed for Shape Deposition Manufacturing Laboratory in Carnegie Mellon University. Some improvement is proposed from the problems we found during the development of the prototype system.