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This paper examines three advanced services provided by Database technology that can support agent-based manufacturing systems: temporal modelling, activity representation and meta-modelling. We will explain how the combination of these three services, based on well-defined models, enables the description of dynamic behaviour useful to cooperate with the environment, manage contracts and exploit efficiency data describing other manufacturing sites. We will illustrate this paper with the description of an information agent devoted to manufacturing sites cooperation.
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Hanachi, C. (1998). Agent-based Manufacturing : a database point of view. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Marik, V. (eds) Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing. BASYS 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35390-6_10
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