Industrial experiences, trends and future requirements on agent-based intelligent automation

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 2978-2983

  Schoop, Ronald ^a   Colombo, Armando W ^b   Suessmann, Boris ^b   Neubert, Ralf ^b  

^a SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC   (France)

^b Schneider Automation GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION; DISTRIBUTED INDUSTRIAL CONTROL; KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; PHYSICAL AGENT; TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INITIATIVES;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0036962024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2002.1182870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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