Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Borangiu, Theodor (Editor), Thomas, André (Editor), Trentesaux, Damien (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 402
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Manufacturing industries.; Machines.; Tools.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools.

Service orientation is emerging nowadays at multiple organizational levels in enterprise business, and it leverages technology in response to the growing need for greater business integration, flexibility and agility of manufacturing enterprises. This book gathers contributions from scientists, rese...

Table of Contents:

• From the content: Service-Oriented Approach for Holonic Manufacturing Control and Beyond
• Service Oriented Control Framework for a Holonic System Characterized by a Guided Flow of Entities
• The Augmentation Concept: How to Make a Product "Active" During its Life Cycle
• Engineering Hierarchical Complex Systems: An Agent-based Approach. The Case of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• HAPBA - a Holonic Adaptive Plan-Based Architecture
• Integrating Intelligent Robot Services in Holonic Manufacturing
• Key Factors for Information Dissemination on Communicating Products and Fixed Databases
• A Load Balancing Algorithm for Multi-Agent Systems.