Software agents in industry: A customized framework in theory and praxis

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-156

  Theiss, Sebastian ^a   Vasyutynskyy, Volodymyr ^a   Kabitzsch, Klaus ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent system design; Agent system performance; Hardware in the loop emulation; Software agents

Indexed keywords

AGENT PLATFORM; AGENT SYSTEM DESIGN; AGENT SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; AUTOMATION APPLICATIONS; AUTOMATION CONTROL SYSTEM; AUTOMATION DOMAIN; DATA COLLECTION; DESIGN EFFORT; DISTRIBUTED AGENTS; FAULT DIAGNOSIS; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP EMULATION; REAL-TIME PROPERTIES; RESOURCE USAGE; RUNTIME;

AUTOMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 67349260153     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2009.2017739     Document Type: Article

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