The dependency on vehicles is increasing tremendously due to its excellent transport
capacity, fast, efficient, flexible, pleasant journey, minimal physical effort, and substantial …

This paper presents a novel self-manageable architecture for industrial automation systems
that combines multi-agent systems and IEC 61,499 function block modeling approaches. A …

Abstract Industry 4.0 and 5.0 are currently pushing towards a reconciliation between
humans and the concurrent evolution of cyber-physical systems of systems. This constitutes …

Traditional industrial automation systems developed under centralized architectures are
statically programmed with determined procedures to perform predefined tasks in structured …

The goal of the paper is to find means for the unification of human-machine duality in
collective behavior of people and machines, by conciliating approaches that proceed in …

RMAS is a multi-agent system architecture and associated model of computation that has
been recently proposed as promising framework for autonomic computation and as viable …

The RMAS (relational-model multi-agent system) architecture has been proven promising
towards the introduction of autonomic intelligence for industrial agents, and suitable for the …

This paper confronts with a reflection about a deep problem in computational models for
cyber-physical systems (CPS). The problem arises in the contact between digital computing …

The database-centric approach for industrial applications in the fourth industrial revolution
has been proposed as a viable possibility in view of new trends towards distributed …

This paper discusses the problems of material and information flow in a complex product
manufacturing process. It presents an ICT solution that augments Kanbans in order to …