Designing a reusable co-ordination module for co-operative industrial control applications

Designing a reusable co-ordination module for co-operative industrial control applications - Control Theory and Applications, IEE Proceedings-

Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) systems, in which multiple agents communicate and co-operate with one another to achieve their individual and collective goals, are a promising enabling technology for constructing large, realworld industrial control applications. To facilitate the development of such systems a number of generic DAI frameworks have been devised. These frameworks typical...

Scalability through Cultivation Designing IT Support for Co-ordination Work

The objective of this paper is to discuss how to enable the staff at an orderpackaging department to cope with a drastically increasing scale of operation. In order to do this we introduce the term scalability and based on co-ordination theory we formulate a case specific method for designing for an increasing scale of operation. We argue that it is the co-ordination work that is lacking not th...

Vertical Co-ordination in Transition Agriculture: a Hungarian Co-operative Case Study

The agriculture is traditional risky business, but in transition countries agricultural producers should face some additional difficulties. The agri-food chains are still suffering from underdeveloped market institutions creating severe barriers for price discovery and high transaction costs to co-ordinate market exchanges. Co-operatives are usually neglected as a possible governance structure ...

Parameter Control within a Co-operative Co-evolutionary Genetic Algorithm

Reconciling Co-operative Planning and Automated Co-ordination in Multiagent Systems

In the context of cooperative work, the coordination of activities is provided essentially by two opposite classes of approaches, based on the notion of situated action and planning. Actually, given the complexity and dynamism of current cooperative scenarios, the need of model supporting both the approaches has emerged. A similar situation can be recognised in multiagent system coordination, w...