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

Cyber-physical systems have encountered a huge success in the past decade in several
scientific communities, and specifically in production topics. The main attraction of the …

In nowadays production, fluctuations in demand, shortening product life-cycles, and highly
configurable products require an adaptive and robust control approach to maintain …

The current market's demand for customization and responsiveness is a major challenge for
producing intelligent, adaptive manufacturing systems. The Multi-Agent System (MAS) …

Increasing product variety, shorter product life cycles, and unknown future demands for each
product type are key challenges of manufacturing companies. This paper describes the …

In today's rapidly changing production landscape with increasingly complex manufacturing
processes and shortening product life cycles, a company's competitiveness depends on its …

Development of future industry has become an active research area in the recent years. A
structured national workgroup, called IMS2, has emerged in France over the last decade …

This paper provides a methodology to assess the optimal multi-agent architecture for
collaborative prognostics in modern fleets of assets. The use of multi-agent systems has …

Globalization, changes in the working environment, higher quality requirements, rapid
technical mutation, and changes in production paradigms all provide difficulties to …

Most of scheduling methods consider a deterministic environment for which the data of the
problem are known. Nevertheless, in reality, several kinds of uncertainties should be …