Manufacturing has faced significant changes during the last years, namely the move from a
local economy towards a global and competitive economy, with markets demanding for …

Agent technology has been considered as an important approach for developing distributed
intelligent manufacturing systems. A number of researchers have attempted to apply agent …

In the last decades significant changes in the manufacturing environment have been
noticed: moving from a local economy towards a global economy, with markets asking for …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

The ability of production companies to rapidly develop and deploy effective and efficient
control systems is critical for success in the consumer-driven environment of contemporary …

Natural self-organising systems function without central control and operate based on
contextual local interactions. The particularity of self-organised systems is their capacity to …

Efforts at the intersection of technology and pedagogy converge upon four pivotal axes that
collectively delineate the future educational landscape. These axes, namely mobility …

The future of the manufacturing sector in the world will be determined by how it meets the
challenges of the 21st century. Two paradigms promise to meet these challenges, multi …

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements are forcing major changes
in the production styles and configuration of manufacturing organizations. Traditional …

Nowadays fully integrated enterprises are being replaced by business networks in which
each participant provides others with specialized services. As a result, the Service Oriented …