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ExPlanTech: Exploitation of Agent-Based Technology in Production Planning

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications II (ACAI 2001)

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The mission of the ExPlanTech technology transfer project is to introduce, customize and exploit the multi-agent production planning technology in two distinct industrial cases. The traditional production planning activity is substituted by agent driven service negotiations, intelligent decomposition and distributed decision-making. This paper describes a FIPA-compliant implementation of the ExPlanTech technology at the LIAZ Pattern Shop manufacturing company. We describe the structure of the agent community, types of agents, implementation of the planning strategy and its incorporation within the real production environment.

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  1. Gerstner Laboratory, Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, Prague 6, 166 27, Czech Republic

    Aleš Říha, Michal Pěchouček, Jiří Vokřínek & Vladimír Mařík

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík , Olga Štěpánková  & Hana Krautwurmová ,  & 

  2. Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague, Americka 22, 120 00, Prague 2, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

  3. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

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Říha, A., Pěchouček, M., Vokřínek, J., Mařík, V. (2002). ExPlanTech: Exploitation of Agent-Based Technology in Production Planning. In: Mařík, V., Štěpánková, O., Krautwurmová, H., Luck, M. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications II. ACAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45982-0_20

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