A Volatile Knowledge Approach to Improve the Autonomy of Holons: Application to a Flexible Job Shop Manufacturing System

It is well known now that MAS are particularly adapted to deal with distributed and dynamic environment. The management of business workflow, or data flow, flexible job shop manufacturing systems is typically a good application field for them. This kind of application requires flexibility to face wi...

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Published inIndustrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems pp. 84 - 95
Main Author Adam, Emmanuel
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2015
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Flexible job shop manufacturing systems
Multiagent system
Volatile knowledge
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Summary:It is well known now that MAS are particularly adapted to deal with distributed and dynamic environment. The management of business workflow, or data flow, flexible job shop manufacturing systems is typically a good application field for them. This kind of application requires flexibility to face with changes on the network. In the context of FMS, where products and resources entities can be seen as active, and subject to events, a volatile knowledge concept has been defined. We illustrate our proposition on an emulator of the flexible assembly cell in our university.
ISBN:3319228668
9783319228662
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-22867-9_8