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Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing (HoloMAS 2009)

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Service-oriented Multi-Agent Systems (SoMAS) is an approach to combine the fundamental characteristics of service-oriented and multi-agent methods into a new platform for industrial automation. Several research works already targeted the connection of these technologies, presenting different perspectives in how and why to join them. This research focuses on available efforts and solutions in the area of SoMAS and explains the idea behind the service-oriented agents in industrial automation. A SoMAS system is mainly composed by shared resources in form of services and their providing/requesting agents. The paper also discusses the required engineering aspects of these systems, from the internal anatomy to the interaction patterns. Parameters of flexibility, reconfiguration, autonomy and reduced development efforts were considered and they should be the trademark of SoMAS. Aiming to illustrate the proposed approach, an example of service-oriented automation agents is given.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    J. Marco Mendes & Francisco Restivo

  2. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Quinta Sta Apolónia, Apartado 134, 5301-857, Bragança, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

  3. Schneider Electric Automation GmbH, Steinheimer Str. 117, D-63500, Seligenstadt, Germany

    Armando W. Colombo

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  1. Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, 16627 Praha 6, Czech Republic and Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague, Pekařská 10a/695,, 15500, Prague 5,, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

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Mendes, J.M., Leitão, P., Restivo, F., Colombo, A.W. (2009). Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems. In: Mařík, V., Strasser, T., Zoitl, A. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_2

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