Towards Agent-Based Smart Factories: A Subject-Oriented Modeling Approach

• Published in: 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT) Vol. 3; pp. 83 - 86
• Main Authors: Kannengiesser, Udo, Muller, Harald
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.11.2013
• Subjects: Agent-based manufacturing; Business; Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS); Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) Ontology; Machining; Ontologies; Production facilities; Real-time systems; Sensors; Smart Factories; Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM)

This paper proposes subject-oriented modeling as an enabling technology for agent systems to be used in Smart Factories. This modeling approach is consistent with the agent-oriented view of processes as emerging from the interactions and local behaviors of autonomous entities (or "subjects"...