Agent technology has been considered as an important approach for develo** distributed
intelligent manufacturing systems. A number of researchers have attempted to apply agent …

Manufacturing process planning is the process of selecting and sequencing manufacturing
processes such that they achieve one or more goals and satisfy a set of domain constraints …

In the last decades significant changes in the manufacturing environment have been
noticed: moving from a local economy towards a global economy, with markets asking for …

This paper surveys the literature in the holonic manufacturing systems area in an attempt to
bring together the key issues in the development and applications of holonic systems. A brief …

Existing modeling frameworks for manufacturing system control can be classified into
hierarchical, heterarchical, and hybrid control frameworks. The main drawbacks of existing …

This article presents the design, implementation and application of Mobile‐C, an IEEE
Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) compliant agent platform for mobile C/C++ …

Agent technology derived from Distributed Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being
considered for next generation computer-integrated manufacturing systems, to satisfy new …

Like societies of humans, there is a need for agents in a multi-agent system to rely on one
another, enlist the support of peers in order to solve complex tasks. Agents will be able to …

Despite the large volume of publications devoted to neural networks, fuzzy logic, and
evolutionary programming, few address the applications of computational intelligence in …

We propose a recursive multi-resolution collaborative architecture (MRCA), based on multi-
agent coordination mechanisms as a solid foundation for the development of web-centric …