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PAAMS 2018: Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection pp 149–160Cite as

Multi-agent Systems Approach to Industry 4.0: Enabling Collaboration Considering a Blockchain for Knowledge Representation

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Industrial processes are facing major changes with the arrival of a new revolution: Industry 4.0. By introducing blockchain technology on this environment, conditions are met to accelerate and improve the concepts associated with this new revolution. By looking at industries as an intelligent ambient, where there is a big amount of data being exchanged and created, is possible to gather data and create knowledge about the interactions, and other entities. In this work we propose a model that uses blockchain and multi-agent systems to help represent an entity in a network of entities and help the decision-making process by providing additional knowledge.

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  1. ESTG.IPP School of Management and Technology, Institute Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Pinheiro, Mário Macedo & Ricardo Santos

  2. CIICESI, Center for Research and Innovation in Business Sciencesand Information Systems, Felgueiras, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Pinheiro, Mário Macedo, Ricardo Barbosa & Ricardo Santos

  3. ISLab/ALGORITMI Center, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ricardo Barbosa & Paulo Novais

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  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

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  5. Lille University of Science and Technology, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

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  6. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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  7. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  8. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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Pinheiro, P., Macedo, M., Barbosa, R., Santos, R., Novais, P. (2018). Multi-agent Systems Approach to Industry 4.0: Enabling Collaboration Considering a Blockchain for Knowledge Representation. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_14

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