Title :
Improving manufacturing co-operation in a virtual enterprise by tracker mobile agents
Author :
Szirbik, Nick ; Wortmann, Hans ; Hegge, Herman ; Goossenaerts, Jan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Technol., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
Agents are a new paradigm in software development. However, this paradigm offers new methodologies only in certain areas. Our view is that IT integration of a virtual enterprise is one of the most promising fields for agent-based software. In this paper, we present an approach based on tracker mobile agents, which is intended to support the decision-making process for changes during product manufacturing in a virtual enterprise. We argue that a possible approach is to use rule-based heuristic reasoning, augmented with human interaction
Keywords :
decision support systems; distributed programming; heuristic programming; inference mechanisms; manufacturing data processing; software agents; IT integration; agent-based software; decision-making process; human interaction; manufacturing cooperation; product manufacturing; rule-based heuristic reasoning; software development; tracker mobile agents; virtual enterprise; Bills of materials; Companies; Data structures; Decision making; Humans; Manufacturing processes; Mobile agents; Monitoring; Pulp manufacturing; Virtual enterprises;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1999. Proceedings. ETFA '99. 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5670-5
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.1999.813160
