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Information is the key factor in industry nowadays. Especially Computer Integrated Manufacturing intends to use information technology to integrate all parts of an enterprise. Product development often involves large teams of design specialists, produces a large amount of data and should consume as less time as possible. Therefore, CIM forces the application of information management technology in order to guarantee that the right data are present at the right location in the right time. Agents and multi-agent systems are an upcoming technology that can help to establish distributed intelligent applications for industrial environments. Agent-based applications seem well suited to the distributed character of an enterprise-wide information management. However, industry requires a data management that is robust and reliable. In this paper we want to show how database technology can be integrated with agent technology to provide a persistent, robust, and reliable information management within multi-agent systems.
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Kollingbaum, M., Stadlbauer, H. (1999). Enterprise integration with agent-based engineering data management. In: Baskin, A.B., Kovács, G., Jacucci, G. (eds) Cooperative Knowledge Processing for Engineering Design. PROLAMAT 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35357-9_6
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