Mass personalization is becoming a reality. It requires responsive and flexible
manufacturing operations for producing individualized products in dynamic batch sizes at …

This paper surveys the literature in the holonic manufacturing systems area in an attempt to
bring together the key issues in the development and applications of holonic systems. A brief …

Low-volume high-variety products like personalized cars or customized engines will be the
key issues for manufacturing in the 21st century. The necessary control technology is based …

We propose a recursive multi-resolution collaborative architecture (MRCA), based on multi-
agent coordination mechanisms as a solid foundation for the development of web-centric …

Holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) can be modeled as multi-agent systems to which
contract net protocol can be effectively and robustly applied. However, the lack of analysis …

The introduction of new operational requirements to manufacturing enterprises determines
an emergent complexity in their life cycle, due to different aspects such as geographic …

This paper focuses on conflict resolution and control in the context of holonic manufacturing
systems based on cooperative agents. Holonic manufacturing systems requires a robust …

Future manufacturing, to stay competitive, should possess the capabilities to permit much
faster response to changes in the business and technology environment. Companies should …

Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration
and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassing e …

This paper proposes a distributed multi-agent approach for dynamic part routing in
automated manufacturing systems. In particular, each part in the system is associated to an …