HOLONIC ARCHITECTURE FOR A MULTIAGENT-BASED SIMULATION TOOL

Nancy Ruiz, Adriana Giret, Vicente Botti

2007

Abstract

In the last few years Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) have been used to improve some areas such as control systems of manufacturing systems, monitoring and diagnosis systems, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing architectures. This paper presents an application of the holonic approach together with the Multi-agent Systems (MAS) to develop a Simulation Tool for manufacturing systems. The architecture for this tool is related to functionalities that support the Manufacturing Model created by the User. This proposal allows the User to take advantage of these two approaches to simulate a manufacturing environment according to the manufacturing requirements.

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Ruiz N., Giret A. and Botti V. (2007). HOLONIC ARCHITECTURE FOR A MULTIAGENT-BASED SIMULATION TOOL . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-89-4, pages 395-398. DOI: 10.5220/0002360603950398


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Nancy Ruiz and Adriana Giret and Vicente Botti},
title={HOLONIC ARCHITECTURE FOR A MULTIAGENT-BASED SIMULATION TOOL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={395-398},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002360603950398},
isbn={978-972-8865-89-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - HOLONIC ARCHITECTURE FOR A MULTIAGENT-BASED SIMULATION TOOL
SN - 978-972-8865-89-4
AU - Ruiz N.
AU - Giret A.
AU - Botti V.
PY - 2007
SP - 395
EP - 398
DO - 10.5220/0002360603950398