Service-oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

J. Marco Mendes (Author) FEUP; Paulo Leitão (Author) FEUP; Francisco Restivo (Author) FEUP; Armando W. Colombo (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 5696

Pages: 13-24

ISBN: 978-3-642-03666-8

Publisher: Springer

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Abstract (EN): Service-oriented Multi-Agent Systems (SoMAS) is an approach to combine the fundamental characteristics of service-oriented and multi-agent methods into a new platform for industrial automation. Several research works already targeted the connection of these technologies, presenting different perspectives in how and why to join them. This research focuses on available efforts and solutions in the area of SoMAS and explains the idea behind the service-oriented agents in industrial automation. A SoMAS system is mainly composed by shared resources in form of services and their providing/requesting agents. The paper discusses also the required engineering aspects of these systems, from the internal anatomy to the interaction patterns. Aiming to illustrate the approach, an example of service-oriented automation agents is given. Parameters of flexibility, reconfiguration, autonomy and reduced development efforts were considered and in the end they should be the trademark of SoMAS.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific