TY - GEN
T1 - Service-oriented agents for collaborative industrial automation and production systems
AU - Mendes, J. Marco
AU - Leitão, Paulo
AU - Restivo, Francisco
AU - Colombo, Armando W.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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 also discusses the required engineering aspects of these systems, from the internal anatomy to the interaction patterns. Parameters of flexibility, reconfiguration, autonomy and reduced development efforts were considered and they should be the trademark of SoMAS. Aiming to illustrate the proposed approach, an example of service-oriented automation agents is given.
AB - 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 also discusses the required engineering aspects of these systems, from the internal anatomy to the interaction patterns. Parameters of flexibility, reconfiguration, autonomy and reduced development efforts were considered and they should be the trademark of SoMAS. Aiming to illustrate the proposed approach, an example of service-oriented automation agents is given.
KW - Industrial automation
KW - Multi-agent systems
KW - Service-oriented architectures
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349318219&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349318219
SN - 364203666X
SN - 9783642036668
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 13
EP - 24
BT - Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2009
Y2 - 31 August 2009 through 2 September 2009
ER -
