Repurposing production operations during COVID-19 pandemic by integrating Industry 4.0 and reconfigurable manufacturing practices: an emerging economy …

R Pansare, G Yadav - Operations Management Research, 2022 - Springer
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on manufacturing industries and
supply chains. Manufacturing industries are struggling to repurpose their production …

An architecture to facilitate the integration of human workers in Industry 4.0 environments

DE Sparrow, K Kruger, AH Basson - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
While Industry 4.0 research has predominantly focussed on the connection of machines and
digital systems and solutions, it is important to consider the role of human workers within the …

A critical review of the use of holonic paradigm in traffic and transportation systems

IH Tchappi, S Galland, VC Kamla, JC Kamgang… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper presents a critical review of the use of holonic paradigm in order to model and
simulate traffic and transportation systems. After an introduction presenting the principles of …

A review of multi-agent systems used in industrial applications

S Răileanu, T Borangiu - International Workshop on Service Orientation in …, 2022 - Springer
The purpose of this review is to present the different facets of multi-agent systems (MAS) with
an accent on their two main areas: MAS for developing decentralized systems and MAS for …

Design and implementation of agent-based robotic system for agile manufacturing: A case study of ARIAC 2021

G Wan, X Dong, Q Dong, Y He, P Zeng - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2022 - Elsevier
We share our experience and lessons learned from participating in the Agile Robotics for
Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC), 2021. We won 1st place in the finals and …

Quality assessment of the contact center while implementation the IP IVR system by using teletraffic theory

K Chezhimbayeva, M Konyrova… - … -European Journal of …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
The paper considers the form of taking into account the specialization of information needs.
An analysis of the work of modern call centers has been carried out. The authors noted the …

[HTML][HTML] A holonic approach to clinical pathway data analysis

H Erwee, AH Basson, K Kruger - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Healthcare faces challenges due to the advancements of Industry 4.0 as large
volumes of data are generated within healthcare facilities that, combined with the complex …

Mobile Education Agents: A New Paradigm for Personalized Learning

G Tkach, N Kerimbayev, V Jotsov… - 2024 IEEE 12th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article discusses the basic principles of developing and using mobile agents, which are
software components that can move between network nodes to perform various tasks …

A holonic human cyber-physical system in healthcare

TW Defty - 2022 - scholar.sun.ac.za
The fourth industrial revolution (I4. 0) aims to enhance operational performance and
promote interconnectivity between system components. Labour-intensive industries which …

Comparison of Erlang/OTP and JADE implementations for standby redundancy in a holonic controller

GT Hawkridge, AH Basson, K Kruger - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a comparison between two standby redundancy implementations within
the context of a holonic controller for a manufacturing cell: using the Erlang/OTP …