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The cooperation of agents is synthesized in this paper. It is based on the theory of supervision used in the part of control theory devoted to DES (discrete-event systems). Place/transition Petri nets (P/T PNs) are utilized to model both the elementary autonomous agents and the agent cooperation itself. The proposed approach is illustrated in details on the cooperation of mobile “material” agents in manufacturing systems. The usefulness and applicability of the approach consists especially in the fact that the procedure in analytical terms can be employed. In such a way the approach turns lucid also in complicated cases.
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Čapkovič, F. (2010). Cooperation of Agents in Manufacturing Systems. In: Jędrzejowicz, P., Nguyen, N.T., Howlet, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6070. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13480-7_21
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