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In the context of the Physical Internet (PI), the PI-container with associated instrumentation (e.g., embedded communication, processing, identification…) can be considered as “smart”. The concept of “Smart PI-container (SPIC)” exploits the idea for a container to participate in the decision making processes that concern itself or other PI-containers. This paper outlines the necessity to develop a framework able to describe a collective of SPICs. After a quick survey of the existing typologies in the field of smart entities, a descriptive framework based on an enrichment of the Meyer typology is proposed. The proposed framework allows a description of the physical aspect (links among PI-containers) and of the informational aspect for a given function. Finally, for illustration purpose, the framework is tested on a collective of SPICs for a monitoring application.
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The authors like to especially thank the French National Research Agency (ANR) which supports this work via the granted PI-NUTS Project (ANR-14-CE27-0015).
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Rahimi, A., Sallez, Y., Berger, T. (2016). Framework for Smart Containers in the Physical Internet. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., McFarlane, D. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 640. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30337-6_7
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