Smart Agents in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1086-1101

  Leitão, Paulo ^a,b   Karnouskos, Stamatis ^c   Ribeiro, Luis ^d   Lee, Jay ^e   Strasser, Thomas ^f   Colombo, Armando W ^g,h  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES EMDEN LEER   (Germany)

^h SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; cyber physical systems (CPSs); internet of things; multiagent systems (MASs); serviceoriented architectures

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERNET OF THINGS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; COMMON GROUND; COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT; CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (CPSS); INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (MASS); NETWORK STRUCTURES; SMART AGENTS;

CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84977992593     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2016.2521931     Document Type: Article

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