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Manufacturers operate today in constantly moving market, characterized by a short product life cycles and increased demand for flexibility. In the same way, the ability to respond rapidly to changing market opportunities by quickly providing the required combination of design and manufacturing capabilities becomes a key issue to maintain competitiveness. In this context, the project oriented enterprises may be modeled by a multi-agent system representation. Such an approach allows modeling the heterogeneous actors of the real world in terms of agents, focusing on communication and collaboration between them. This paper shows how a multi agent approach may be used in the modeling of project oriented enterprises.
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Pepiot, G., Glardon, R., Pouly, M. (2000). Multi-Agent Systems and Enterprise Modeling. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Erbe, HH. (eds) Advances in Networked Enterprises. BASYS 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 53. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35529-0_31
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