Applications of agent-based systems in intelligent manufacturing: An updated review

A. Azevedo, C. Torscano, J.P. Sousa, An order planning system to support networked supply chains, in: Proc. of PRO-VE’02, 2002, pp. 237–244.

Babanov, 2003, Asking the right question: risk and expectation in multiagent contracting, AIEDAM, 17, 173, 10.1017/S0890060403173027

Babayan, 2004, Solving the n-job 3-stage flexible flowshop scheduling problem using an agent-based approach, International Journal of Production Research, 42, 777, 10.1080/00207540310001602946

A.D. Baker, Manufacturing control with a market-driven contract net, PhD Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA, 1991.

Baker, 1999, Agents and the Internet: Infrastructure for mass customization, IEEE Internet Computing, 3, 62, 10.1109/4236.793461

S. Barber, E. White, A. Goel, D. Han, J. Kim, H. Li, T.H. Liu, C.E. Martin, R. McKay, Sensible agent problem-solving simulation for manufacturing environments, in: Proc. of AI & Manufacturing Research Planning Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, 1998, pp. 1–9.

J. Barry, M. Aparicio, T. Durniak, P. Herman, J. Karuturi, C. Woods, C. Gilman, H. Lam, R. Ramnath, NIIIP-SMART: an investigation of distributed object approaches to support MES development and deployment in a virtual enterprise, in: Proc. of EDOC’98, La Jolla, CA, 1998, pp. 366–377.

H. Baumgaertel, U. John, Combining agent-based supply net simulation and constraint technology for highly efficient simulation of supply networks using APS systems, in: Proc. of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2003, pp. 1765–1773.

N.M. Berry, S. Kumura, Evaluating the design and development of Reagere, in: Working Notes of the ABM (Agent-Based Manufacturing) Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 5–13.

G. Biswas, S. Bagchi, A. Saad, Holonic planning and scheduling for assembly tasks, Technical Report, TR CIS-95-01, Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University, 1995.

B. Bjork, J. Wix, An introduction to STEP, Technical Report, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Wix McLelland Ltd., England, 1991.

Bremer, 1999, Global virtual business – a systematic approach for exploiting business opportunities in dynamic markets, IJAM, 1

R. Brennan, S. Balasubramanian, D.H. Norrie, Dynamic control architecture for advanced manufacturing systems, in: Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Advanced Manufacturing, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997, pp. 213–223.

Bruccoleri, 2003, Distributed intelligent control of exceptions in reconfigurable manufacturing systems, International Journal of Production Research, 41, 1393, 10.1080/1352816031000075170

S. Brückner, J. Wyns, P. Peeters, M. Kollingbaum, Designing agents for the manufacturing process control, in: Proc. of AI and Manufacturing Research Planning Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, 1998, pp. 40–46.

D. Brugali, G. Menga, S. Galarraga, Inter-company supply chains integration via mobile agents, in: Proc. of PROLAMAT’98, Trento, Italy, 1998, pp. 43–54.

J. Budenske, A. Ahamad, E. Chartier, Agent-based architecture for exchanging modeling data between applications, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 18–27.

Burke, 1994, The distributed asynchronous scheduler, 309

S. Bussmann, An agent-oriented architecture for holonic manufacturing control, in: Proc. of IMS1998, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1998, pp. 1–12.

S. Bussmann, K. Schild, An agent-based approach to the control of flexible production systems, in: Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Antibes-Juan les Pins, France, 2001, pp. 481–488.

Butler, 1992, ADDYMS: Architecture for distributed dynamic manufacturing scheduling, 199

Camarinha-Matos, 1999

Chan, 2004, Case-based modification for optimization agents: AGENT-OPT’, DSS, 36, 355

H.R. Choi, H.S. Kim, Y.J. Park, Multi-agent-based negotiation support system for order based manufacturers, in: Proc. of ICEC2003, vol. 5, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003, pp. 480–488.

Choi, 2004, An agent for selecting optimal order set in EC marketplace, DSS, 36, 371

Choi, 1997, Shop-floor scheduling at shipbuilding yards using the multiple intelligent agent system, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 8, 505, 10.1023/A:1018578820621

J.H. Christensen, P.J. Struger, D.H. Norrie, C. Schaeffer, Material handling requirements in holonic manufacturing systems, in: Proc. of International Symposium on Material Handling Research, Grand Rapids, MI, 1994.

Corsten, 2004, Opportunistic coordination of operations in job shop production, Technovation, 24, 219, 10.1016/S0166-4972(02)00074-3

R.S. Cost, T. Finin, Y. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam, An agent-based infrastructure for enterprise integration, in: Proc. of ASA/MA’99, Palm Springs, CA, 1999, pp. 219–233.

Cowling, 2004, Dynamic scheduling of steel casting and milling using multi-agents, PPC, 15, 178

Cutkosky, 1993, PACT: An experiment in integrating concurrent engineering systems, IEEE Computer, 26, 28, 10.1109/2.179153

Cutkosky, 1996, Madefast: Collaborative engineering over the Internet, Communication of the ACM, 39, 78, 10.1145/234215.234474

2003

Duffie, 1986, Non-hierarchical control of manufacturing systems, JMS, 5, 137

Duffie, 1994, Real-time distributed scheduling of heterarchical manufacturing systems, JMS, 13, 94

T. Finin, R. Fritzon, D. McKay, R. McEntire, KQML - A Language and protocol for knowledge and information exchange, Technical Report, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1993.

K. Fischer, The design of an intelligent manufacturing system, in: Proc. of CKBS’94, University of Keele, England, 1994, pp. 83–99.

K. Fischer, J.P. Muller, M. Pischel, D. Schier, A model for cooperative transportation scheduling, in: Proc. of ICMAS’95, San Francisco, CA, 1995, pp. 109–116.

G. Fleury, J.Y. Goujon, M. Gourgand, P. Lacomme, Multi-agent approach for manufacturing systems optimization, in: Proc. of PAAM’96, London, England, 1996, pp. 225–244.

S.P. Fonseca, M.L. Griss, R. Letsinger, Agent behavior architectures: a MAS framework comparison, in: Proc. of AAMAS2001, Bologna, Italy, 2001.

Fordyce, 1994, Logistics management system (LMS): integrating decision technologies for dispatch scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing, 473

M.S. Fox, J.F. Chionglo, M. Barbuceanu, The integrated supply chain management system, Internal Report, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, 1993.

D. Frey, T. Stockheim, P.-O. Woelk, R. Zimmermann, Integrated multi-agent-based supply chain management, in: Proc. of 2003 WET ICE, Linz, Austria, 2003, pp. 24–29.

Galland, 2003, MaMA-S: an introduction to a methodological approach for the simulation of distributed industrial systems, IJPE, 85, 11

M. Genesereth, R.E. Fikes, Knowledge Interchange Format, Version 3.0, Reference Manual, Technical Report Logic-92-1, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 1992.

Genesereth, 1994, Software agents, Communications of the ACM, 37, 48, 10.1145/176789.176794

D. Goldberg, V. Cicirello, M.B. Dias, Task allocation using a market-based planning mechanism, in: Proc. of AAMAS’03, vol. 2, Melbourne, Australia, 2003, pp. 996–997.

S.Y. Goldsmith, L.D. Interrante, An autonomous manufacturing collective for job shop scheduling, in: Proc. of AI & Manufacturing Research Planning Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, 1998, pp. 69–74.

P.M.D. Gray, S.M. Embury, K. Hui, A. Prce, An agent-based system for handling distributed design constraints, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 28–31.

Z. Guan, M. Lei, B. Wu, Y. Wu, S. Yang, Application of decentralized cooperative problem solving in dynamic flexible scheduling, in: Proc. of SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 1995, pp. 179–183.

A. Gupta, L. Whitman, K. Agarwal, Supply chain agent decision aid system (SCADAS), in: Proc. of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference, Arlington, VA, 2001, pp. 553–559.

Hasegawa, 1994, Holonic planning and scheduling architecture for manufacturing

Q. Hao, W. Shen, G. Stecca, L. Wang, Towards an Internet enabled cooperative manufacturing management framework, in: Proc. of PRO-VE’03, Lugano, Switzerland, 2003, pp. 191–200.

C.C. Hayes, MAPP: An agent organization for process planning, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 32–40.

Hewitt, 1979, Control structure as patterns of passing messages, 435

IEC Technical Committee, Function Blocks for Industrial-Process Management and Control Systems, Part-1: Architecture, IEC-TC65/WG6 Committee Draft, 1997.

Imberti, 2003, Manufacturing planner agents in network enterprises, IJATM, 3, 315, 10.1504/IJATM.2003.003810

L. Interrante, S. Glodsmith, Emergent agent-based scheduling of manufacturing systems, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 47–56.

Jagdev, 2001, Anatomy of enterprise collaboration, PPC, 12, 437

N.R. Jennings, J.M. Corera, I. Laresgoiti, Developing industrial multi-agent systems, in: Proc. of ICMAS’95, San Francisco, CA, 1995, pp. 423–430.

Jennings, 1998, Applications of intelligent agents, 3

Jeong, 2002, A distributed scheduling methodology for a two-machine flowshop using cooperative interaction via multiple coupling agents, JMS, 21, 126

K.N. Jha, A. Morris, E. Mytych, J. Spering, MADEsmart: Agents for design, analysis, and manufacturbility, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 57–63.

Jia, 2004, An adaptive and upgradable agent-based system for coordinated product development and manufacture, RCIM, 20, 79

Karageorgos, 2003, Agent-based optimisation of logistics and production planning, EAAI, 16, 335

Kim, 2003, A hybrid scheduling and control system architecture for warehouse management, IEEE TR&A, 19, 991

Koestler, 1967

S. Kornienko, O. Kornienko, P. Levi, Flexible manufacturing process planning based on the multi-agent technology, in: Proc. of 21st IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, 2003, pp. 156–161.

Kouiss, 1997, Using multi-agent architecture in FMS for dynamic scheduling, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 8, 41, 10.1023/A:1018540317470

Kuo, 2003, A document-driven agent-based approach for business process management, Information and Software Technology, 46, 373, 10.1016/j.infsof.2003.08.002

Lee, 2003, Multi-agent-based dynamic resource scheduling for distributed multiple projects using a market mechanism, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 14, 471, 10.1023/A:1025753309346

Lim, 2004, An integrated agent-based approach for responsive control of manufacturing resources, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 46, 221, 10.1016/j.cie.2003.12.006

Lin, 1992, Integrated shop floor control using autonomous agents, IIE Transactions: Design and Manufacturing, 24, 57, 10.1080/07408179208964224

J. Liu, K.P. Sycara, Distributed problem solving through coordination in a society of agents, in: Proc. of the 13th International Workshop on DAI, Seattle, WA, 1994.

J. Liu, K.P. Sycara, Exploiting problem structure for distributed constraint optimization, in: Proc. of ICMAS’95, San Francisco, CA, 1995, pp. 246–253.

Lo Nigro, 2003, Coordination policies to support decision making in distributed production planning, RCIM, 19, 521

Lockemann, 2003, Flexibility through multi-agent systems: solution or illusion?, 2932, 41

Lu, 2001, An agent-based production control framework for multiple-line collaborative manufacturing, International Journal of Production Research, 39, 2155, 10.1080/00207540110038478

M.T. Malkoun, E.A. Kendall, CLAIMS: Cooperative layered agents for integrating manufacturing systems, in: Proc. of PAAM’97, London, UK, 1997.

V. Marik, M. Pechoucek, Agent technology for virtual organization, In Proc. of PRO-VE’03, Lugano, Switzerland, 2003, pp. 243–252.

2003

Maturana, 1999, MetaMorph: an adaptive agent-based architecture for intelligent manufacturing, International Journal of Production Research, 37, 2159, 10.1080/002075499190699

McDonnell, 1999, A cascading auction protocol as a framework for integrating process planning and heterarchical shop floor control, IJFMS, 11, 37

B. McEleney, G.M.P. O’Hare, J. Sampson, An agent-based system for reducing changeover delays in a job-shop factory environment, in: Proc. of PAAM’98, London, UK, 1998, pp. 591–613.

McGuire, 1993, SHADE: Technology for knowledge-based collaborative engineering, CEAR, 1

A. Mehra, M. Nissen, Intelligent supply chain agents using ADE, in: Proc. of AI & Manufacturing Research Planning Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, 1998, pp. 112–119.

T. Miyamoto, S. Kumagai, Multi criteria real-time scheduling for manufacturing systems by context-dependent agents, in: Proc. of the 41st SICE Annual Conference, Osaka, Japan, 2002, pp. 280–285.

Miyashita, 1998, CAMPS: A constraint-based architecture for multi-agent planning and scheduling, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 9, 147, 10.1023/A:1008867912869

L. Mönch, M. Stehli, R. Schulz, An agent-based architecture for solving dynamic resource allocation problems in manufacturing, in: Proc. of the 14th European Simulation Symposium, Dresden, Germany, 2002.

L. Mönch, M. Stehli, J. Zimmerman, FABMAS: An agent-based system for production control of semiconductor manufacturing processes, in: Proc. of HoloMAS 2003, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003.

S. Murthy, R. Akkiraju, J. Rachlin, F. Wu, Agent-based cooperative scheduling, in: Proc. of AAAI Workshop on Constrains and Agents, Providence, RI, 1997, pp. 112–117.

G.T. Nguyen, T.T. Dang, L. Hluchy, Z. Balogh, M. Laclavik, I. Budinska, Agent Platform Evaluation and Comparison, Technical Report for Pellucid 5FP IST-2001-34519, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2002.

NIST, Advanced Technology Program. Available from: <http://www.atp.nist.gov/>, 1998.

D. Ouelhadj, C. Hanachi, B. Bouzouia, Multi-agent system for dynamic scheduling and control in manufacturing cells, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 96–105.

P.S. Ow, S.F. Smith, A cooperative scheduling system, in: Proc. of the First International Conference on Expert Systems and the Leading Edge in Production Planning and Control, 1988, pp. 43–56.

Pan, 1991, An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration, IEEE TSMC, 21, 1391

C. Pancerella, A. Hazelton, R. Frost, An autonomous agent for on-machine acceptance of machined components, in: Proc. of SPIE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Philadelphia, PA, 1995.

T. Papaioannou, J. Edwards, Mobile agent technology enabling the virtual enterprise: A pattern for database query, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 106–116.

Y.J. Park, H.R. Choi, H.S. Kim, Automated negotiation for order transactions of injection mold manufacturer, in: Proc. of ICEC2003, vol. 5, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003, pp. 488–497.

Parunak, 1987, Manufacturing experience with the contract net, 285

H.V.D. Parunak, MASCOT: A virtual factory for research and development in manufacturing scheduling and control, Technical Memo 93-02, Industrial Technology Institute, 1993.

H.V.D. Parunak, Workshop Report: Implementing manufacturing agents, Sponsored by the SFA project of NCMS in conjunction with PAAM’96, NCMS, 1996.

H.V.D. Parunak, A. Baker, S. Clark, The AARIA agent architecture: From manufacturing requirements to agent-based system design, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 136–145.

S.D. Pathak, D.M. Dilts, Simulation of supply chain networks using complex adaptive system theory, in: Proc. of the IEEE Engineering Management Conference, vol. 2, 2002, pp. 655–660.

V. Patriti, K. Schaefer, M. Ramos, P. Charpentier, P. Martin, M. Veron, Multi-agent and manufacturing: a multilevel point of view, in: Proc. of CAPE’97, Detroit, MI, 1997.

M. Pechoucek, V. Marik, O. Stepankova, Coalition formation in manufacturing multi-agent systems, in: Proc. of DEXA2000, London, UK, 2000, pp. 241–246.

Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. Labrou, B. Chu, J. Long, W.J. Tolone, A. Boughannam, A multi-agent system for enterprise integration, in: Proc. of PAAM’98, London, UK, 1998, pp. 155–169.

C. Petrie, M. Cutkosky, T. Webster, A. Conru, H. Park, Next-Link: An experiment in coordination of distributed agents. Position paper for the AID-94 Workshop on Conflict Resolution, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1994.

Rabelo, 1999, Multi-agent-based agile scheduling, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 27, 15, 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00080-3

Rabelo, 2003, Interoperating standards in multi-agent agile manufacturing scheduling systems, IJCAT, 18, 146, 10.1504/IJCAT.2003.002134

Rehak, 2004, Agent system application in high-volume production management

A. Riha, M. Pechoucek, H. Krautwurmova, P. Charvat, A. Koumpis, Adoption of an agent-based production planning technology in the manufacturing industry, in: Proc. of DEXA2001, Munich, Germany, 2001, pp. 640–646.

A. Saad, G. Biswas, K. Kawamura, M.E. Johnson, A. Salama, Evaluation of contract net-based heterarchical scheduling for flexible manufacturing systems, in: Proc. of Intelligent Manufacturing Workshop at IJCAI’95, Montreal, QC, 1995, pp. 310–321.

R. Sacile, M. Paolucci, A. Boccalatte, The MAKE-IT: Manufacturing agents in a knowledge-based environment driven by internet technologies, in: Proc. of the 2000 Academia/Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges, Buffalo, NY, 2000, pp. 281–291.

N. Sadeh, M.S. Fox, CORTES: An exploration into micro-opportunistic job-shop scheduling, in: Proc. of Workshop on Manufacturing Production Scheduling at IJCAI-89, Detroit, MI, 1989.

Sadeh, 2003, Agent-based e-supply chain decision support, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 33, 225, 10.1207/S15327744JOCE133&4_05

T. Sandholm, V. Lesser, Advantages of a leveled commitment contracting protocol, in: Proc. of AAAI-96, Portland, OR, 1996, pp. 126–133.

E. Scalabrin, Conception et Réalisation d’environnement de développement de systèmes d’agents cognitifs, PhD Thesis, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, 1996.

M.J. Shaw, A.B. Whinston, Distributed planning in cellular flexible manufacturing systems, Technical Report, Management Information Research Center, Purdue University, 1983.

Shaw, 1988, Dynamic scheduling in cellular manufacturing systems: a framework for networked decision making, JMS, 7, 83

Shen, 1996, An experimental multi-agent environment for engineering design, IJCIS, 5, 131

Shen, 1999, Agent-based systems for intelligent manufacturing: a state-of-the-art survey, KAIS, 1, 129

Shen, 2001

Shen, 2001, Dynamic manufacturing scheduling using both functional and resource related agents, ICAE, 8, 17, 10.3233/ICA-2001-8102

Shen, 2000, MetaMorph II: an agent-based architecture for distributed intelligent design and manufacturing, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 11, 237, 10.1023/A:1008915208259

Shen, 2000, Enhancing the performance of an agent-based manufacturing system through learning and forecasting, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 11, 365, 10.1023/A:1008926202597

Shen, 2002, Distributed manufacturing scheduling using intelligent agents, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 17, 88, 10.1109/5254.988492

Shen, 2002, Implementation of genetic algorithms in agent-based manufacturing scheduling systems, ICAE, 9, 207, 10.3233/ICA-2002-9302

W. Shen, L. Wang, Q. Hao, Agent-based integration of manufacturing process planning and scheduling: a review, in: Proc. of FAIM2004, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 2004.

Smith, 1980, The contract net protocol: high-level communication and control in a distributed problem solver, IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-29, 1104, 10.1109/TC.1980.1675516

Sousa, 1997, A dynamic scheduling holon for manufacturing orders, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 9, 107, 10.1023/A:1008807726981

Sousa, 1999, A distributed architecture and negotiation protocol for scheduling in manufacturing systems, Computers in Industry, 38, 103, 10.1016/S0166-3615(98)00112-2

F. Sprumont, J.P. Muller, AMACOIA: A multi-agent system for designing flexible assembly lines, in: Proc. of PAAM’96, London, UK, 1996, pp. 573–585.

Surana, 2005, Supply-chain networks: a complex adaptive systems perspective, International Journal of Production Research, 43, 4235, 10.1080/00207540500142274

J.M. Swaminathan, S.F. Smith, N.M. Sadeh, A multi-agent framework for supply chain dynamics, in: Proc. of AI & Manufacturing Research Planning Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, 1996.

Sycara, 1991, Resource allocation in distributed factory scheduling, IEEE Expert, 6, 29, 10.1109/64.73815

Trappey, 2004, Mobile agent technology and application for online global logistic services, Industrial Management and Data Systems, 104, 169, 10.1108/02635570410522143

Tseng, 1997, A collaborative control system for mass customization manufacturing, Annals CIRP, 46, 373, 10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60846-4

Ulieru, 2002, The holonic enterprise – a model for internet-enabled global supply chain and workflow management, IJIMS, 13, 538

Usher, 2003, Negotiation-based routing in job shops via collaborative agents, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 14, 485, 10.1023/A:1025705426184

L.B. Valencia, G. Rabadi, A multi-agent approach for the job shop scheduling problem with earliness and tardiness, in: Proc. of 2003 IEEE SMC 2003, Washington DC, USA, vol. 2, 2003, pp. 1217–1222.

M. Van Breukelen, A.K. Ahluwalia, B. Netten, J. Hamers, J. Rogier, A. Ricci, Available and Applicable Agent Technologies, Technical Report for Privacy Incorporated Software Agent (PISA), TNO TPD /Finsa, 2001.

Van Leeuwen, 1997, Intelligent manufacturing: holons and holarchies, Manufacturing Engineer, 76, 86, 10.1049/me:19970203

Wallace, 2003, Sequential resource allocation utilizing agents, International Journal of Production Research, 41, 2481, 10.1080/0020754031000088165

C. Wang, W. Shen, H. Ghenniwa, An adaptive negotiation framework for agent-based dynamic manufacturing scheduling, in: Proc. of 2003 IEEE SMC 2003, vol. 2, Washington DC, USA, 2003, pp. 1211–1216.

L. Wang, S. Balasubramanian, D.H. Norrie, Agent-based intelligent control system design for real-time distributed manufacturing environments, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 152–159.

Wang, 2003, Research on CAPP/scheduling integration multi-agent system model and implementation, CJME, 16, 348, 10.3901/CJME.2003.04.348

Wang, 2003, A multi-agent and distributed ruler based approach to production scheduling of agile manufacturing systems, IJCIM, 16, 81

Wooldridge, 1995, Intelligent agents: Theory and practice, Knowledge Engineering Review, 10, 115, 10.1017/S0269888900008122

Wu, 2003, Multi-agent technology in scheduling of semi-conductor production line, Chinese Journal of CIMS, 9, 641

S. Wu, D.B. Kotak, Agent-based collaborative project management system for distributed manufacturing, in: Proc. of IEEE SMC 2003, vol. 2, Washington DC, USA, 2003, pp. 1233–1238.

Wunderli, 1996, Multi-database agents for CIM systems, IJCIM, 9, 293

J. Wyns, Reference Architecture for Holonic Manufacturing Systems – The Key to Support Evolution and Reconfiguration, PhD Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999.

Y. Yan, T. Kuphal, J. Bode, Application of multi-agent systems in project management, in: Working Notes of the ABM Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, 1998, pp. 160–171.

Yen, 2003, Internet scheduling environment with market driven agents, IEEE TSMC-A, 34, 281

Yu, 2001, Development of the order fulfillment process in the foundry fab by applying distributed multi-agents on a generic message-passing platform, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 6, 387, 10.1109/3516.974852

Yu, 2003, A multi-agent-based E-maintenance system with case-based reasoning decision support, EAAI, 16, 321

F. Zhang, E. Santos Jr., P.B. Luh, Mobile multi-agent-based scheduling and coordination of maintenance network, in: Proc. of PDPTA’2003, Las Vegas, NV, 2003, pp. 279–285.

H.D. Zhou, Design and evaluations of a co-learning multi-agent system to collaborative supply chain management, in: Proc. of the 34 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington DC, USA, 2003, pp. 163–174.