Semantic technologies: Latest advances in agent-based manufacturing control systems

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1483-1496

  Vrba, Pavel ^a   Radaković, Miloslav ^a,b   Obitko, Marek ^a,b   Mařik, Vladimír ^a,b  

^a Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

distributed intelligent control; manufacturing; multi agent systems; ontologies; reconfigurability; semantics

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED CONTROL; AGENT-BASED MANUFACTURING; DISCRETE MANUFACTURING; DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING; MATERIAL HANDLING; MULTI-AGENT; MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGIES; PRODUCTION PLANNING; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REASONING ABOUT KNOWLEDGE; RECONFIGURABILITY; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES;

CASE BASED REASONING; CONTROL THEORY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURE; MATERIALS HANDLING; ONTOLOGY; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; REMOTE CONTROL; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650624173     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2010.518746     Document Type: Article

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