Coalitions of manufacturing components for shop floor agility - the CoBASA architecture

Jose Barata, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2003, vol. 2, issue 1, 50-77

Abstract: In this article, an agent-based architecture in which cooperation is regulated by contracts is proposed as a flexible approach to dynamic shop floor re-engineering. It describes the dynamic and flexible cooperation of manufacturing agents, representing manufacturing resources and how they can be created from a generic agent template. Agents' behaviour and contract types and structure are discussed. The first experimental results are also introduced.

Keywords: virtual organisation; contracts; agile manufacturing; multiagent systems; virtual enterprise. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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