Past, present, and future of industrial agent applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2360-2372

  Leitão, Paulo ^a   Mařík, Vladimír ^b   Vrba, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Holonic systems; industrial agents; multiagent systems (MAS); production planning; real time control; semantic technologies manufacturing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DISTRIBUTED STRUCTURES; HOLONIC SYSTEM; INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR; PRODUCTION PLANNING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; REAL TIME CONTROL; SEMANTICS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84886643332     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2012.2222034     Document Type: Article

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