Agent-Based Manufacturing : Advances in the Holonic Approach /
Low-volume high-variety products like personalized cars or customized engines will be the key issues for manufacturing in the 21st century. The necessary control technology is based on the concept of holons, which are the units of production and behave as autonomous and cooperative agents, providing...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2003.
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| Series: | Advanced information processing.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Starters: (1) Introduction. (2) From Fractals to Bionics to Holonics. (3) From FMS to HMS
- Part II. Systems Architecture: (4) HMS/FB Architecture and Its Implementation. (5) FIPA Standards and Holonic Manufacturing. (6) Towards a Formalized HMS Model
- Part III. Systems Operation: (7) A Computational Model for HMS. (8) An HMS Operational Model. (9) Holonic Diagnostics for an Automotive Assembly Line
- Part IV. Application Environments and Issues: (10) HMS Development and Implementation Environment. (11) Transport Agents Specification and Development. (12) A Holonic Shot Blasting System. (13) Holonic Manufacturing Control: Rationale, Developments, and Open Issues.