Industrial Agents explains how multi-agent systems improve collaborative networks to offer
dynamic service changes, customization, improved quality and reliability, and flexible …

Since 1960s, with the development of societal and related technologies, many advanced
manufacturing systems (AMSs) and modes have been put forward, and they have attracted …

Many industrial enterprises acquire disparate systems and applications over the years. The
need to integrate these different systems and applications is often prominent for satisfying …

Cloud computing and virtualization technology have revolutionized general-purpose
computing applications in the past decade. The cloud paradigm offers advantages through …

Power distribution networks with distributed generators (DGs) can exhibit complex
operational regimes which makes conventional management approaches no longer …

This article presents a hybrid wireless network integration scheme in cloud services-based
enterprise information systems (EISs). With the emerging hybrid wireless networks and …

In order to realize the manufacturing resource sharing and optimal allocation, many
advanced manufacturing modes and technologies have been proposed and researched, but …

Automated visual surveillance systems are attracting extensive interest due to public
security. In this paper, we attempt to mine semantic context information including object …

This paper presents the elaboration of a concept to develop and implement real-time
capable industrial automation software that increases the dependability of production …

The adoption of open-source operating systems for the execution of real-time applications is
gaining popularity, even in the networked control systems domain, due to cost and flexibility …