Industrial agents emerging applications of software agents in industry

This book explains how multi-agent systems improve collaborative networks to offer dynamic service changes, customization, improved quality and reliability, and flexible infrastructure. You will learn how these platforms can offer distributed intelligent management and control functions with communi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Leitão, Paulo (Editor), Karnouskos, Stamatis (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands Elsevier 2015
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  • pt. I. Industrial agents : concepts and definitions
  • Software agent systems
  • Industrial agents
  • The design, deployment, and assessment of industrial agent systems
  • pt. II. Industrial agents : related concepts and technologies
  • Industrial agents in the era of service-oriented architectures and cloud-based industrial infrastructures
  • Distributed real-time automation and control : reactive control layer for industrial agents
  • Industrial agents cybersecurity
  • Virtual enterprises based on multiagent systems
  • An assessment of the potentials and challenges in future approaches for automation software
  • Agent-based control of production systems
  • and its architectural challenges
  • Identification and implementation of agents for factory automation exploiting mechatronical concepts for production system structuring
  • pt. III. Industrial agent applications
  • Cloud based agent framework for the industrial automation sector
  • Multi-agent systems for real-time adaptive resource management
  • Large-scale network and service management with WANTS
  • Cross-domain energy savings by means of unified energy agents
  • A multi-agent system coordination approach for resilient self-healing operations in multiple microgrids
  • Multi-agent system for integrating quality and process control in a home appliance production line
  • Industrial agents for the fast deployment of evolvable assembly systems
  • Automation agents for controlling the physical components of a transportation system
  • Intelligent factory agents with predictive analytics for asset management
  • A biomimetic approach to distributed maintenance management based on a multi-agent system
  • Programming of multiagent applications with JIAC
  • pt. IV. A survey on factors that impact industrial agent acceptance
  • A survey on factors that impact industrial agent acceptance