Usability of multi-agent based control systems in industrial automation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5696 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-36

  Terzic, Ivanka ^a   Zoitl, Alois ^a   Rooker, Martijn ^b   Strasser, Thomas ^b   Vrba, Pavel ^c   Mařík, Vladimir ^c,d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b PROFACTOR GMBH   (Austria)

^c Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

^d CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Automation; Diagnosis; Multi Agent Architecture; Usability; User Acceptance

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; FAST REACTION; HUMANINTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; MULTI-AGENT; MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURE; PRODUCTION DEMAND; RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS; UNPREDICTABLE CHANGES; USABILITY; USER ACCEPTANCE;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349459667     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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