Gaia Analysis and Design of a Multi-agent-based Shop Floor Control System

  1. José Alberto Araúzo 1
  2. Ricardo del Olmo 2
  3. Juan José Laviós 2
  1. 1 Departamento de Organización de Empresas y CIM Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales Universidad de Valladolid Pº del Cauce, 59 47011, Valladolid
  2. 2 Departamento de Ingeniería Civil Escuela Politécnica Superior (Edificio La Milanera) Universidad de Burgos C/ Villadiego s/n 09001, Burgos
Journal:
Dirección y organización: Revista de dirección, organización y administración de empresas

ISSN: 1132-175X

Year of publication: 2014

Issue: 54

Pages: 26-35

Type: Article

DOI: 10.37610/DYO.V0I54.457 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

To achieve competitiveness in the today’s manufacturing plants; many researchers suggest agent based manufacturing systems, with scheduling and control activities distributed on several entities called agents. To develop this kind of systems some promising agent-oriented software methodologies, as Gaia, have been proposed. They provide the concepts and procedures to define the main features of multi-agent systems. In this paper we show how we used the Gaia methodology to analyze and design a multi-agent-based shop floor control system that has been further implemented by JADE. We also show preliminary computational experiments that show as our approach has a good performance in flexible environments.

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