Injecting Service-Orientation into Multi-Agent Systems in Industrial Automation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2010

Authors

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

Conference proceedings International

Title: Artifical Intelligence and Soft Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6114, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

Pages: 313-320

Scientific classification

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

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Information technology ; Technological sciences > Technology > Production technology

Other information

Abstract (EN): Service-oriented architecture and multi-agent systems are used in the research of novel control systems for industrial automation. This work presents the advance of service-orientation into multi-agent system in industrial automation. An overview of the concept of service-oriented agent is done and also the enhancements that services can bring to multi-agent systems. The documented topics of this work are based on the experiments and projects of the authors in the domain of distributed and component based automation systems. The outcome shows that there are many benefits, namely the aspects of knowledge representation, communication, plug & play, interactions, beside others. These contribute to the vision of future automation systems, where flexibility and customization are strong arguments.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific