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- bookJune 2016
Trends in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, the PAAMS Collection
- Fernando de la Prieta,
- Mara J. Escalona,
- Rafael Corchuelo,
- Philippe Mathieu,
- Zita Vale,
- Andrew T. Campbell,
- Silvia Rossi,
- Emmanuel Adam,
- Mara D. Jimnez-Lpez,
- Elena M. Navarro,
- Mara N. Moreno
PAAMS, the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is an evolution of the International Workshop on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS is an international yearly tribune to ...
- research-articleJanuary 2016
Analyzing multi-agent approaches for the design of advanced interactive and collaborative systems
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE), Volume 8, Issue 3Pages 325–346https://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-160380The purpose of this paper is to determine a set of requirements and proposals for the design of a collaborative interactive system working under distributed tangible environments. A wide range of human-machine, human-human and human-environment ...
- ArticleSeptember 2015
A Volatile Knowledge Approach to Improve the Autonomy of Holons: Application to a Flexible Job Shop Manufacturing System
HoloMAS 2015: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems - Volume 9266Pages 84–95https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22867-9_8It is well known now that MAS are particularly adapted to deal with distributed and dynamic environment. The management of business workflow, or data flow, flexible job shop manufacturing systems is typically a good application field for them. This kind ...
- ArticleSeptember 2015
Behavioural Validation of the ADACOR2 Self-organized Holonic Multi-agent Manufacturing System
HoloMAS 2015: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems - Volume 9266Pages 59–70https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22867-9_6Global economy is driving manufacturing companies into a paradigm revolution. Highly customizable products at lower prices and with higher quality are among the most imposed influence factors. To respond properly to these external and internal ...
- research-articleMay 2015
A model for managing interactions between tangible and virtual agents on an RFID interactive tabletop
Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), Volume 81, Issue 3Pages 585–598https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2014.11.011Interactive tables are more frequently being suggested to support collaborative and co-localized applications. They can be tactile, tangible or mixed. New sensory entries enable users to manipulate different types of tangible objects. The purpose of ...
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- research-articleJanuary 2015
Dynamic self-organization in holonic multi-agent manufacturing systems
Computers in Industry (CIIN), Volume 66, Issue CPages 99–111https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2014.10.011Holonic multi-agent system evolution of the well-known ADACOR architecture.Behavioural and structural self-organization proposed.Nervousness control mechanism.Results show an improvement of the previous version of ADACOR. Nowadays, systems are becoming ...
- bookJune 2014
Trends in Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection
- Javier Bajo Perez,
- Juan M. Corchado,
- Philippe Mathieu,
- Andrew Campbell,
- Alfonso Ortega,
- Emmanuel Adam,
- Elena M. Navarro,
- Sebastian Ahrndt,
- Mara N. Moreno,
- Vicente Julin
PAAMS, the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is an evolution of the International Workshop on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS is an international yearly tribune to ...
- demonstrationMay 2014
Switching between levels of decision making in MAS organisation: application to flexible assembly cells
AAMAS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systemsPages 1673–1674This paper presents a bi-level multiagent organisation where decision-making are taken in an optimal way at the upper level of the MAS, and in a reactive way, at the lower level. We proposed ORCA (Architecture for an Optimized and Reactive Control) ...
- articleApril 2014
Reactive and energy-aware scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems using potential fields
Computers in Industry (CIIN), Volume 65, Issue 3Pages 434–448https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2013.11.008This paper presents a reactive scheduling approach for flexible manufacturing systems, which integrates the overall energy consumption of the production. This work is justified by the growing needs of manufacturers for energy-aware control, due to new ...
- ArticleOctober 2013
Self-Organized Holonic Multi-agent Manufacturing System: The Behavioural Perspective
SMC '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and CyberneticsPages 3829–3834https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2013.654New manufacturing control architectures rely on the decentralization of the system entities to handle in a more effective way the current constraints imposed to the highly dynamic manufacturing world. Despite of their benefits, these architectures miss ...
- ArticleAugust 2013
Structural Self-organized Holonic Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems
HoloMAS 2013: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems - Volume 8062Pages 59–70https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40090-2_6Worldwide systems are increasingly growing into unprecedented complexity levels. This increase of system complexity has to be tackled with new control approaches, where decentralization is playing an important role and particularly the Multi-Agent ...
- bookJune 2013
Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- Javier Bajo Pérez,
- Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez,
- Johannes Fähndrich,
- Philippe Mathieu,
- Andrew Campbell,
- María del Carmen Suárez-Figueroa,
- Alfonso Ortega,
- Emmanuel Adam,
- Elena Navarro,
- Ramon Hermoso,
- María N. Moreno
Research on Agents and Multi-agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to presents and discuss the latest scientific developments and their ...
- bookMarch 2012
Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and ...
- Javier Bajo Prez,
- Juan M. Corchado Rodrguez,
- Emmanuel Adam,
- Alfonso Ortega,
- Mara N. Moreno,
- Elena Navarro,
- Benjamin Hirsch,
- Henrique Lopes-Cardoso,
- Vicente Julin,
- Miguel A. Snchez,
- Philippe Mathieu
Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their ...
- ArticleAugust 2011
Agents tasks reallocation for collaborative urban supply chain management
The companies often face contradictory challenges dealing with quality of services on one hand and ways to make benefits and deal with as demand as possible on the other hand. Moreover, the Supply Chain Management (SCM) has to deal with a highly dynamic ...
- ArticleAugust 2011
Roles-based MAS applied to the control of intelligent products in FMS
This paper presents a formalization of a solution to control the myopia and its impact on performances of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) controlled by intelligent products. The model is based on the concept of the functional roles in Multi-Agent ...
- chapterAugust 2009
Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems IAugust 2009, Pages 267–288https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03722-1_11This paper reflects a discussion at the SARC workshop, held in Venice, October 2008. This workshop addresses robustness and cooperation in holonic multi-agent systems within a context of self-organizing and self-adaptive systems. The paper first ...
- ArticleAugust 2009
An Open-Control Concept for a Holonic Multiagent System
HoloMAS '09: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for ManufacturingPages 145–154https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_14MAS are particularly adapted to deal with distributed and dynamic environment. The management of business workflow, or data flow, flexible manufacturing systems is typically a good application field for them. This kind of application requires ...
- ArticleOctober 2008
Flexible Hierarchical Organisation of Role Based Agents
SASOW '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems WorkshopsPages 186–191https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2008.27MAS are particularly adapted to deal with distributed and dynamic environment. The management of business workflow, or data flow, is typically a good application field for them. This kind of application requires centralization of the data control and ...
- ArticleSeptember 2007
Flexible Roles in a Holonic Multi-Agent System
HoloMAS '07: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for ManufacturingPages 59–70https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_7Holonic Multi-Agent organisations are particular pyramidal organisations where agents of a layer (having the same coordinator) are able to communicate and to negotiate directly between them. In order to benefit from control allowed by the hierarchical ...
- ArticleMay 2006
A methodology to bring MAS to information systems
AOIS'06: Proceedings of the 8th international Bi conference on Agent-oriented information systems IVPages 90–104Agents have been used to provide qualities of adaptation to the Information Systems (IS) since the Nineties. Apart from agent-based IS, existing IS can benefit from additional services provided by agents. We focus on personalization services, which aim ...