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An Agent-Based Approach for the Dynamic and Decentralized Service Reconfiguration in Collaborative Production Scenarios

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Future industrial systems endorse the implementation of innovative paradigms addressing the continuous flexibility, reconfiguration, and evolution to face the volatility of dynamic markets demanding complex and customized products. Smart manufacturing relies on the capability to adapt and evolve to face changes, particularly by identifying, on-the-fly, opportunities to reconfigure its behavior and functionalities and offer new and more adapted services. This paper introduces an agent-based approach for service reconfiguration that allows the identification of the opportunities for reconfiguration in a proactive and dynamic manner, and the implementation on-the-fly of the best strategies for the service reconfiguration that will lead to a better production efficiency. The developed prototype for a flexible manufacturing system case study allowed to verify the feasibility of greedy local service reconfiguration for competitive and collaborative industrial automation situations.

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Rodrigues, N., Leitão, P., Oliveira, E. (2017). An Agent-Based Approach for the Dynamic and Decentralized Service Reconfiguration in Collaborative Production Scenarios. In: Mařík, V., Wahlster, W., Strasser, T., Kadera, P. (eds) Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems. HoloMAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10444. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64635-0_11

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