Abstract
Today’s application engineers are committed to the reuse of programs for performance and economic reasons. Moreover, they increasingly have to complement application programs with less information and in shorter time. The reuse of already implemented programs is therefore fundamental. We have implemented a process automation specific framework that supports reuse of our domain specific visual language. The visual Function Block Language is used for power plant and paper machine controls.
The reuse framework discussed in this paper relies in identification and usage of templates, which are used for generating actual application software instances.
The framework automates data mining with software agents collecting metadata. The metadata is send ahead to the receiver agent that stores the data into the central database. Another agent analyzes stored data and performs template matching. Again another agent is called for more detailed template match comparison. Although the database is centralized, the agents can be distributed and run in intranet. The framework implementation is pure java based and runs on JADE-FIPA agent platform
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
10. References
Bellifemine Fabio, Caire Giovanni, Trucco Tiziana, Rimassa Giovanni, Jade Administrator’s Guide http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/ Accessed 23.1.2004.
Erdur Riza Cenk, Dikenelli Oguz, Agent Oriented Software Reuse (June 2000)
JADE-FIPA, http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/ Accessed 23.1.2004.
Younis M. Bani, Frey G., Formalization of existing PLC Programs: A Survey (July 2003)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2005 International Federation for Information Processing
About this paper
Cite this paper
Karaila, M., Leppäniemi, A. (2005). Multi-Agent Based Framework for Large Scale Visual Program Reuse. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (eds) Emerging Solutions for Future Manufacturing Systems. BASYS 2004. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 159. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22829-2_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22829-2_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-22828-0
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-22829-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)