Using mobile agents to improve the alignment between manufacturing and its IT support systems

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-57

  Papaioannou, T ^a   Edwards, J ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

MOBILE AGENT SECURITY; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0033617064     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00082-7     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Aglets: http://www.xxx.ibm.co.jp/aglets
2. Ball et al., Enterprise Enablement for Java Applications, white paper, XDB Systems, 1997 .
3. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, V. Marik, Intelligent Systems for Manufacuring, Multi-Agent Systems and Virtual Organizations, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998, ISBN 0-412-84670-5
4. D. Chess, C. Harrison, A. Kershenbaum, Mobile agents: Are they a good idea?, in: J. Vitek, C. Tschudin, (Eds.), Mobile Object Systems, Towards One Programmable Internet, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 1222, Springer, Berlin, 1997, ISBN-3-540-62852-5.
5. P.E. Clements, I.A. Coutts, J.M. Edwards, A model based approach to enterprise wide information support, in: J.B.M. Goossenaerts, F. Kimura, J.C. Wortman (Eds.), Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997, ISBN 0-412-78800-4.
6. P.E. Clements, T. Papaiannou, J.M. Edwards, Aglets: Enabling the virtual enterprise, in: Wright, Rudolph, Hanna, Gillingwater and Burns (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Managing Enterprises - Stakeholders, Engineering, Logistics and Achievement, ME-SELA '97, Mechanical Engineering Publications, Loughborough University, July 1997, pp. 425-432, ISBN 1-86058-066-1.
7. Concordia: http://www.meitca.com/hsl/projects/concordia
8. I. Coutts, J. Edwards, Support for component based systems: Can contemporary technology cope?, in: L.M. Camarinha-Matos et al. (Eds.), Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998, pp. 279-288, ISBN 0-412-84670-5.
9. T. Finin, Y. Labrou, J. Mayfield, KQML as An Agent Communication Language, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1997, to appear (Available at http://www.csee.umbc.edu/kqml/papers/ )
10. S. Franklin, A. Graesser, Is it an agent, or just a program?: A taxonomy for autonomous agents, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, 1996, Published as Intelligent Agents III, Springer, Berlin, 1997, pp. 21-35.
11. J. Gosling, B. Joy, G. Steele, The Java Language Specification, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63455-1
12. R. Gray, Agent Tcl: A Flexible and Secure Mobile-agent System, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, June 1997.
13. G. Hamilton, R. Cattell, F. Maydene, JDBC Database Access with Java, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997, ISBN 0-201-30995-5.
14. M.O. Hofmann, A. McGovern, K.R. Whitebread, Mobile agents on the digital battlefield, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM, New York, 1998, pp. 219-225.
15. JDBC Web Site at http://www.javasoft.com/jdbc
16. K. Neuenhofen, M. Thompson, A secure marketplace for mobile java agents, in: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM, New York, 1998, pp. 212-218.
17. Odyssey: http://www.genmagic.com/technology/odyssey.html
18. T. Papaioannou, J. Edwards, Mobile agent technology in support of sales order processing in the virtual enterprise, in: L.M. Camarinha-Matos et al. (Eds.), Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrechet, 1998, ISBN 0-412-84670-5, pp. 23-32.
19. D. Rus, R. Gray, D. Kotz, Transportable information agents, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 9 (1997) 215-238.
20. System Software Associates Inc., BPCS Client/Server Distributed Object Computing Architecture, White Paper, 1995.
21. D. Tsichritzis, Objectworld, Office Automation, Springer, Berlin, 1985.
22. J.E. White, Telescript Technology: The Foundation for the Electronic Marketplace, White Paper, General Magic, Inc., USA, 1994.
23. D.T. Wright, N.D. Burns, Impact of globalisation on organisational structure and performance, in: Proceedings of the Organisational Management Division, International Association of Management 14th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2-6 August 1996, pp. 58-63.
24. Voyager: http://www.objectsspace.com/Voyager