As the next-generation manufacturing system, intelligent manufacturing enables better
quality, higher productivity, lower cost, and increased manufacturing flexibility. The concept …

Agent technology has been recognized as a promising paradigm for next generation
manufacturing systems. Researchers have attempted to apply agent technology to …

The future Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to enable a new and wide range of
decentralized systems (from small-scale smart homes to large-scale smart cities) in which …

In most real-world environments, scheduling is an ongoing reactive process where the
presence of a variety of unexpected disruptions is usually inevitable, and continually forces …

Nowadays, systems are becoming increasingly complex, mainly due to an exponential
increase in the number of entities and their interconnections. Examples of these complex …

Many researchers have demonstrated that the organizational design employed by an agent
system can have a significant, quantitative effect on its performance characteristics. A range …

Personalized production has emerged as a result of the increasing customer demand for
more personalized products. Personalized production systems carry a greater amount of …

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 …

Industrial agents technology leverages the benefits of multiagent systems, distributed
computing, artificial intelligence techniques and semantics in the field of production, services …

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 …