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A Survey on Standards and Ontologies for Process Automation

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Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (HoloMAS 2015)

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Abstract

Agent technology and model-based engineering have proven potential in various prototypical implementations and academic environments but are not yet well accepted in industrial practice. However, it is evident that upcoming manufacturing systems need to integrate more rigorous foundations of semantics than currently applied data models and architectures but the conformance with industrial standards is crucial for their acceptance.

This paper presents a survey on standards and ontologies for the process domain carried out during the first phase of the project BatMAS, which aims at the integration of a system ontology for providing an extensive knowledge base. On the one hand, the knowledge base should be accessed by an agent-based system for batch process automation and on the other hand, it should provide access for various functionalities of a complete automation solution.

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  1. Practical Robotics Institute Austria, Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz, Alvaro Lobato-Jimenez & Munir Merdan

  2. COPA-DATA GmbH, Salzburg, Austria

    Emilian Axinia

  3. Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Munir Merdan

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  2. Airbus Group Innovations, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, Valenciennes, France

    Damien Trentesaux

  4. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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Lepuschitz, W., Lobato-Jimenez, A., Axinia, E., Merdan, M. (2015). A Survey on Standards and Ontologies for Process Automation. In: Mařík, V., Schirrmann, A., Trentesaux, D., Vrba, P. (eds) Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems. HoloMAS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22867-9_3

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