A pattern-based coordination and test framework for multi-agent simulation of production automation systems

CISIS 2010 - The 4th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 526-533

  Moser, Thomas ^a   Merdan, Munir ^b   Biffl, Stefan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coordination in multi agent systems; Coordination patterns; Production automation simulation

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY WORKSHOP; BUSINESS PROCESS; COORDINATION PATTERNS; CUSTOMER ORDERS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; MANUFACTURING AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; PRODUCT ASSEMBLY; PRODUCTION AUTOMATION; PRODUCTION GOALS; PRODUCTION STRATEGY; REAL-WORLD; ROBUST DELIVERY; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY; TEST FRAMEWORK;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COORDINATION REACTIONS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77952704555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISIS.2010.56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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