Rockwell automation's holonic and multiagent control systems compendium

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-30

  Vrba, Pavel ^a   Tichý, Pavel ^a   Mařík, Vladimír ^a,b   Hall, Kenwood H ^c   Staron, Raymond J ^c   Maturana, Francisco P ^c   Kadera, Petr ^a,b  

^a Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Holonic systems; Manufacturing; Material routing; Multiagent systems (MAS); Programmable logic controllers (PLC); Reconfigurable systems; Semantics; Simulation; Water waste water treatment

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROLLERS; MANUFACTURE; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AGENT-BASED MANUFACTURING; HOLONIC SYSTEM; MULTIAGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS (PLC); REAL TIME CONSTRAINTS; RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS; ROCKWELL AUTOMATIONS; SIMULATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955933424     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2010.2055852     Document Type: Review

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