Agent Base Approach for Intelligent Distributtion Control Systems

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements are forcing major changes in the production styles, planning, services, configuration of manufacturing organizations and many other areas. Agents and multi-agent systems are becoming a new way to analyze, design and implement complex (software) systems, specifically, when the design problem is distributed in nature, the development of a solution may benefit from an agent-based approach. Recently, agent technology has been considered as an important approach for developing industrial distributed systems. Distributed Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems offer modular, flexible, scalable and generals able algorithms and systems solutions for information retrieval, extraction, fusion, and data-driven knowledge discovery using heterogeneous, distributed data and knowledge sources in information rich, open environments. Such systems consist of multiple interacting intelligent software agents.