Multi-agent coordination and control using stigmergy

This paper describes and discusses a novel design and a prototype implementation for manufacturing control systems, aimed at handling changes and disturban...

Hadeli，P Valckenaers，M Kollingbaum，... - 《Computers in Industry》

Multi-agent Coordination and Control Using Stigmergy Applied to Manufacturing Control

In order to cope with today's dynamic environment, the described manufacturing control system is designed as a self-organising multi-agent system. The desi...

P Valckenaers，HV Brussel，M Kollingbaum，... - Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Emergent forecasting using a stigmergy approach in manufacturing coordination and control

This paper presents the design of new manufacturing coordination and control systems based on multi-agent technology. This design aims to cope with a dynamic environment characteristic for manufacturing systems nowadays. One important fe...

K Hadeli，P Valckenaers，BS Germain，... - Engineering Self-organising Systems

A benchmarking service for the manufacturing control research community

This paper presents the development—by the IMS Network of Excellence (cf. http://www. ims-noe.org)—of a web-based benchmarking service for manufacturing ...

P Valckenaers，S Cavalieri，BS Germain，... - 《Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing》

A Case Study for Modular Plant Control

This paper reports on an engineering approach to address the growing need for managing highly modular plants. An implemented agent-based manufacturing controller, inspired by ant social behavior, is p

CB Zamfirescu，P Valckenaers，K Hadeli，... - International Conference on Holonic & Multi-agent Systems for Manufacturing

A benchmarking service for the manufacturing control research community

The scheduling phase is an important production activity. For scheduling problem, many approaches and techniques have been proposed and it is evident the n...

Valckenaers，S Germain，Verstraete，... - Ifac Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing

QUALITY SYSTEM FOR PRODUCTION SOFTWARE (QSPS): AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PRODUCTION SOFTWARE

A quality system for production software should be part of the quality management system of an organization and can be expressed as objectives in the form ...

CV Kifor，N Tudor，LM Baral - 《International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering》

Self-organising in Multi-agent Coordination and Control using Stigmergy

In order to cope with today's dynamic environment, the described manufacturing control system is designed as a self-organising multi-agent system. The design of this novel system implements the PROSA reference architecture [1]. Coordina...

K Hadeli，P Valckenaers，CB Zamfirescu，... - Mutli-agents Systems & Applications

E Pluribus Unum: Polyagent and Delegate MAS Architectures

For the past few years, our research groups have independently been developing systems in which a multi-agent system (typically of lightweight agents) prov...

HVD Parunak，S Brueckner，D Weyns，... - Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Self-organising in multi-agent coordination and control using stigmergy

In order to cope with today's dynamic environment, the described manufacturing control system is designed as a self-organising multi-agent system. The desi...

K Hadeli，P Valckenaers，CB Zamfirescu，... - International Workshop on Engineering Self-organising Applications