In the recent evolution of production control systems, the emergence of decentralized systems capable of dealing with the rapid changes in the production environment better than the traditional centralized architectures has been one of the most significant developments. The agent-based and holonic paradigms symbolize this approach, and ADACOR holonic control architecture is a successful example...

Coalitions between military and non-government organisations to manage operations other than war (OOTW), e.g. earthquake evacuations or food distribution to refugees require sophisticated knowledge management, decentralised control, and the ability to conduct flexible negotiations. Holonic systems are a research topic well suited to these requirements as they treat each organisation as an auton...

The intelligent agents' research team of the Department of System theory and Design (DSTD) lead by prof. Janis Grundspenkis and assistant prof. Egons Lavendelis is working in the rapidly developing branch of artificial intelligence systems – intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The theoretical research includes the following directions. Agent interaction protocols for different purposes,...

Some results of an on-going research on Holonic Manufacturing Systems are presented. This field refers a collection of methods and techniques seeking to enhance the performance of the manufacturing systems control. The considered approach is derived from a holonic reference model, namely PROSA architecture. Certain additional elements are proposed for the respective method, especially regarding...

This paper presents an agent-based mediator-centric architecture for holonic manufacturing systems, which integrates an enterprise's activities such as design, planning, scheduling, simulation, execution and marketing services with its partners' activities into a distributed intelligent open environment.

Developments in Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) have been reported in three main areas: architectures, algorithms, and methodologies for HMS. Despite the advancements obtained in the first two areas the methodologies for HMS have not received great attention. To date, many of the developments in HMS have been conducted in an almost “empirical way”, without design methodology. There is a def...

For decades now, manufacturing systems have grown in size and complexity. Between new consumption habits hypercompetitive markets, started a race towards the industry of future. Still, many technological societal issues are paving their way: connectivity, resilience human integration being among most critical ones. The idea this paper is to bring framework help answering these by bringing syste...

janus is a new multiagent platform that was specifically designed to deal with the implementation and deployment of holonic and multiagent systems. It is based on an organisational approach and its key focus is that it supports the implementation of the concepts of role and organisation as first-class entities. This consideration has a significant impact on agent implementation and allows an ag...

agent technology is an emerging and promising research area in software technology, which increasingly contributes to the development of value-added information systems for large healthcare organizations due to its capability to automatically modify themselves in response to changes in their operating environment. multi agent system (mas) approach is the construction of a complex system as a se...

janus is a new multiagent platform that was specifically designed to deal with the implementation and deployment of holonic and multiagent systems. It is based on an organizational approach and its key focus is that it supports the implementation of the concepts of role and organization as first-class entities. This consideration has a significant impact on agent implementation and allows an ag...