Holons & Agents: Recent Developments and Mutual Impacts

摘要: This position paper briefly gathers together the recent trends in related aras of holonic systems and multi-agent with main goal to present Holonic Manufacturing Systems area MAS community. The vision a Factory is very near being realized, draws number its concepts from world systems. That why many similarities can be identified between these two areas, opportunities exist for crossover research results. IEC 61499 standard real-time function-block oriented control was completed recently. It has been recognized by manufacturing system community that this able help solving low-level tasks only. is, where time horizon decisions made holons (e.g. concerning stopping physical movement robots, or executing safety-critical tasks) range microseconds seconds. Yet does not address all topics needed construct an intelligent agile factory. significantly avoid current deadlocks HMS research. In terms mutual impacts, are based on pragmatic requirements, so they offer wealth attractive deploying agent-based ideas into real industrial settings. And vice versa, application agents domains, connected production, should motivate (until now) concentrated just information agents.