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9780203305607

Multi-agent Systems for Concurrent Intelligent Design and Manufacturing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203305607

  • ISBN10:

    0203305604

  • Copyright: 2000-08-31
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

Agent Technology, or Agent-Based Approaches, is a new paradigm for developing software applications. It has been hailed as 'the next significant breakthrough in software development', and 'the new revolution in software' after object technology or object-oriented programming. In this context, an agent is a computer system which is capable of acting autonomously in its environment in order to meet its design objectives. So in the area of concurrent design and manufacturing, a manufacturing resource, namely a machine or an operator, may cooperate and negotiate with other agents for task assignment; and an existing engineering software can be integrated with a distributed integrated engineering design and manufacturing system. Hence in agennt based systems, there is no centralized system control structure, and no pre-defined agenda for the system execution, as exist in traditional systems. Both professional engineers and inversity researchers and postgraduates should find this an invaluable presentation of the corresponding theories and methods, with some practical examples for developing multi-agent systems in the domain.

Table of Contents

Introduction
General Introduction
Motivation
Book Organization
How to Use This Book
Collaborative Design and Manufacturing
Introduction
Engineering Design
Advanced Manufacturing Systems
Next Generation Collaborative Design and Manufacturing Systems
DAI and Agents
Classic AI and DAI
Research Themes in DAI
Models of DAI Systems
Objects vs. Agents
Different Types of Agents
Why
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