Design of reconfiguration mechanism for holonic manufacturing systems based on formal models

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1187-1199

  Hsieh, Fu Shiung ^a  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contract net; Holonic manufacturing systems; Multi agent systems; Petri nets; Reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

AGENT PLATFORM; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; CONTRACT NETS; DESIGN ISSUES; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; FORMAL MODEL; HOLARCHY; HOLONIC ARCHITECTURE; HOLONIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY; MINIMAL COST; RECONFIGURATION; RECONFIGURATION MECHANISMS; SHOP FLOOR; SIMULATION SYSTEMS;

DESIGN; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; PETRI NETS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77957879698     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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