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Recent Developments and Future Trends of Industrial Agents

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing (HoloMAS 2011)

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The agent technology provides a new way to design and engineer control solutions based on the decentralization of control over distributed structures, addressing the current requirements for modern control systems in industrial domains. This paper presents the current situation of the development and deployment of agent technology, discussing the initiatives and the current trends faced for a wider dissemination and industrial adoption, based on the work that is being carried out by the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents.

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus Sta Apolonia, Apartado 1134, 5301-857, Bragança, Portugal

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  2. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory, R. Campo Alegre 102, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

  3. Rockwell Automation s.r.o., Pekarská 10a, 15500, Prague 5, Czech Republic

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Leitão, P., Vrba, P. (2011). Recent Developments and Future Trends of Industrial Agents. In: Mařík, V., Vrba, P., Leitão, P. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23181-0_2

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