Design, implementation and evaluation of a hybrid approach for software agents in automation

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ulewicz, Sebastian ^a   Schutz, Daniel ^a   Vogel Heuser, Birgit ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PRODUCTIONS; COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; CONTROL STRUCTURE; INTERACTING SOFTWARES; MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); PATH-FINDING ALGORITHMS; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE;

FACTORY AUTOMATION; FAULT TOLERANCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 84876381030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2012.6489766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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