A highly distributed intelligent multi-agent architecture for industrial automation

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2691, Issue , 2003, Pages 522-532

  Maturana, Francisco P ^a   Tichý, Pavel ^b   Šlechta, Petr ^b   Staron, Raymond J ^a   Descenzp, Fred M ^a   Hall, Kenwood ^a  

^a ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (United States)

^b Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CONTROL SYSTEM CONFIGURATION; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; RESEARCH PROJECTS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT MULTI-AGENT; PHYSICAL DEVICES; PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES; SHIPBOARD SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; US NAVY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 8344280272     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45023-8_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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