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What can agents do in industry, and why? An overview of industrially-oriented R&D at CEC

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Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet (CIA 1998)

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The Center for Electronic Commerce (CEC) embodies over fourteen years of experience in applying agents to industrial problems. We have found such a fit in three areas: coordination of industrial designers, simulation and modeling of complex products and processes, and scheduling and control of production systems. This presentation outlines several trends in modern manufacturing, describes how these trends affect the three problem areas, discusses the features of agents that make them attractive candidates for implementing such systems, and reviews example applications from CEC's portfolio in each of these areas.

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Van Dyke Parunak, H. (1998). What can agents do in industry, and why? An overview of industrially-oriented R&D at CEC. In: Klusch, M., Weiß, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet. CIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053670

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