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Environment to Simulate Distributed Agent Based Manufacturing Systems

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Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing (SOHOMA 2016)

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With the constant evolution of markets, new paradigms have emerged. Those new paradigms require solutions more versatile and able to cope with the unexpected changes. The world of manufacturing involves many risks and in order to reduce initial investments it is frequent to use virtual environments like simulators. This document presents a functional architecture of integration between a generic simulator and a multi-agent system, in order to meet the requirements of evolutions in manufacturing and the demand for customized products. One implementation case and results are presented as well.

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Andre Dionisio Rocha, Pedro Barroca & Jose Barata Oliveira

  2. UNINOVA Institute, Centre for Technology and Systems, Caparica, Portugal

    Andre Dionisio Rocha & Jose Barata Oliveira

  3. Technology Transfer System s.r.l., Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Dal Maso

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  1. Fac of Automatic Control, Sector 6, University Politehnica of Bucharest Fac of Automatic Control, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania

    Theodor Borangiu

  2. LAMIH, UVHC LAMIH, Valenciennes, France

    Damien Trentesaux

  3. University of Lorraine , Epinal, France

    André Thomas

  4. Campus StaApolónia, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança Campus StaApolónia, Bragança, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

  5. Quinta da Torre, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - DEE Quinta da Torre, Caparica, Portugal

    José Barata Oliveira

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Rocha, A.D., Barroca, P., Maso, G.D., Barata Oliveira, J. (2017). Environment to Simulate Distributed Agent Based Manufacturing Systems. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., Leitão, P., Oliveira, J. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing . SOHOMA 2016. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 694. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51100-9_36

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