Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance

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ISBN: 9781574443363 | 1574443364
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Copyright: 10/28/2004

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Traditional manufacturing systems rely upon centralized, hierarchical systems that are not responsive enough to the increasing demand for mass customization. Decentralized, or heterarchical, management systems using autonomous agents promise to nullify the limitations of previous solutions.Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance offers a survey of both the literature and the practical applications of this technology. Using a realistic example of a fictitious firm throughout, the book indicates when agent-based systems are appropriate, enumerates techniques to decompose a problem into entities that can be modeled as agents, provides a step-by-step guide to implementation, and offers hints for using simulation to design the system. The authors pay particular attention to object-oriented techniques and to the selection of appropriate tools and inter-agent communication standards, with specific reference to JADE middleware and FIPA framework.Practical, applicative, and thoroughly modern, this text provides all the tools necessary for implementing an extremely flexible, robust, adaptive, and fault-tolerant manufacturing system. This is the perfect reference for AI researchers, industrial manufacturing engineers, operations researchers, and plant managers who wish to develop the most efficient manufacturing systems available.

1 Agent Technology in Modern Production Systems

(22)

Introduction

(5)

Agents and Multiagent Systems

(5)

From Agent Technology to Manufacturing Practice

(7)

Book Motivations and Purposes

(1)

References

(4)

2 Issues in Designing Agent-Based Manufacturing Systems

(38)

Introduction

(7)

Agent System Engineering

(11)

Problem-Oriented MAS Design

(2)

Architecture-Oriented MAS Design

(3)

Process-Oriented MAS Design

(3)

So, Which MAS Design?

(1)

Issues in Designing Agent-Based Manufacturing Systems at PS-Bikes

(15)

A Short Description of PS-Bikes

(4)

Does PS-Bikes Need Agents?

(1)

From Problems to Agents at PS-Bikes

(21)

Two Planning Problems at PS-Bikes

(9)

A Control Problem at PS-Bikes Southern Plant

(1)

Scheduling Execution at the New PS-Bikes Northern Plant

(1)

Conclusions

(1)

References

(4)

3 Agents for Planning, Scheduling, and Control

(58)

Introduction

(1)

Focusing on Planning, Scheduling, and Control Activities in Manufacturing

(3)

Planning, Scheduling, and Control in Manufacturing from an Integrated Perspective

(2)

Basic Concepts in Production Planning

(6)

The Planning Decisions

(1)

The Information Needed by Planning

(3)

The Planning Objectives

(1)

Some Classic Models for Production Planning

(2)

Basic Concepts in Production Scheduling

(10)

The Problem of Computational Complexity

(2)

Basic Terminology and Concepts for Manufacturing Scheduling

(7)

Feasibility-Based Characterization of Scheduling Problems

(3)

Performance-Based Characterization of Scheduling Problems

(2)

Some Remarks about Classic Solution Approaches

(1)

Basic Concepts in Production Control

(7)

The Manufacture of Discrete Parts and Assembly Processes

(3)

Batch and Continuous Processes

(1)

Integration of Control Processes

(2)

Agent-Based Applications in Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling

(9)

Planning and Scheduling MAS Approaches Based on an Auction Process

(1)

Planning and Scheduling MAS Approaches Based on a Cooperation Process

(1)

Planning and Scheduling MAS Approaches Based on Hierarchical Decomposition Process

(1)

Remarks on the MAS Approaches to Planning and Scheduling

(2)

Agent-Based Applications for Scheduling and Control in Manufacturing

(3)

Planning, Scheduling, and Control In PS-Bikes

102

(10)

Toward the New Northern PS-Bikes Plant Integration

103

(1)

MAS Model for Planning and Scheduling in the New PS-Bikes Plant

103

(8)

Scheduling and Control in the New PS-Bikes Plant

111

(1)

Conclusions

112

(2)

References

114

(5)

4 Agent-Based Simulation

119

(34)

Manuel Gentile, Massimo Paolucci, and Roberto Sacile

Introduction

119

(1)

Modeling and Simulating in Manufacturing

120

(6)

Multiagent-Based Simulation

126

(9)

Agent-Based Simulation in Social Sciences

127

(2)

When Can MABS Be Applied? Some Considerations and Conclusions

129

(3)

Presence of Autonomous Entities

130

(1)

Analysis of Distributed Architectures and Control Policies

131

(1)

Modeling and Implementation Issues for MABSs

132

(3)

Platforms to Support Multiagent-Based Simulation Development

135

(3)

Swarm

135

(1)

RePast

136

(1)

MAST

137

(1)

An Application of MABS in PS-Bikes

138

(10)

MABS System for Tuning MAS Scheduling Parameters

140

(4)

Executing the MABS-Based Tuning System: Some Results and Conclusions

144

(4)

Conclusions

148

(1)

References

149

(4)

5 Agent System Implementation

153

(40)

Massimo Cossentino and Luca Sabatucci

Introduction

153

(13)

The FIPA Abstract Architecture

154

(1)

Architecture Overview

155

(1)

Infrastructures for Agent Interactions

155

(1)

Agent Social Relationships

156

(8)

Modeling the Communication Semantic with an Ontology

157

(3)

Message Content and Message Content Language

160

(2)

Agent Interaction Protocols

162

(2)

JADE: an Implementation Platform

164

(2)

A Case Study: Designing the PS-Bikes System

166

(1)

PS-Bikes Case Study: Initial Description of System Requirements

166

(1)

Designing the Solution with PASSI

167

(20)

The PASSI Methodology

168

(1)

The System Requirements Model

169

(2)

The Agent Society Model

171

(6)

The Agent Implementation Model

177

(6)

The Code Model

183

(2)

The Deployment Model

185

(1)

Agent and Society Test

186

(1)

Agent Implementation

187

(4)

References

191

(2)

6 Past Successes

193

(40)

Introduction

193

(1)

Two Outstanding Supply Chain-Oriented MAS Applications in Manufacturing

194

(9)

The Metamorph II Project

195

(4)

The AARIA Project

199

(4)

Successful MAS Applications in Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling

203

(13)

Auction-Based Models

203

(7)

Cooperation-Based Models

210

(4)

Hierarchical Models

214

(2)

Successful MAS Applications in Manufacturing Scheduling and Control

216

(10)

Practical Working Industrial Applications

226

(1)

Conclusions

227

(2)

References

229

(4)

7 Future Challenges

233

(28)

Introduction

233

(3)

Next Generation e-Manufacturing Solutions

236

(2)

What Must Be Refined in Agent-Based Manufacturing

238

(6)

Standards

241

(1)

Integration with Current Methodologies/Technologies: the Need of a la Carte Solutions

242

(1)

Bidding vs. Executing: the Role of Simulation

243

(1)

Costs and Time

244

(1)

What Has Yet to Be Done in Agent-Based Manufacturing

244

(7)

Negotiation Mechanisms and Protocols

245

(2)

Integrating Planning, Scheduling, and Control

247

(1)

Integrating Agent-Based and Traditional Approaches

248

(1)

Combining Individual Solving and Coordination-Negotiation

249

(1)

Benchmarks

250

(1)

Theoretical Investigation of Methodology

250

(1)

PS-Bikes and Its Challenging "Agentification" Process to Achieve Agility

251

(1)

Conclusions

252

(6)

References

258

(3)

Index

261

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