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IceHMS, a Middleware for Distributed Control of Manufacturing Systems

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Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems

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This paper presents a new middleware, dubbed IceHMS specifically designed to support the development of distributed manufacturing control systems requiring flexibility. IceHMS has been used in several research applications in the field of flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing which are documented in dedicated scientific papers. This paper focuses on the description of the IceHMS middelware.

IceHMS distinguishes itself from mainstream multi-agent platforms by its design for distributed applications and in its cross-programming language and cross-OS (operating system) support. IceHMS is a thin, non-intrusive multi-agent layer running over a proven communication engine, the Internet Communication Engine (IceTM ) by ZeroC Inc. The code of IceHMS is open-source and is freely available.

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  1. Department of Production Technology, SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing, Norway

    Olivier Roulet-Dubonnet & Morten Lind

  2. Department of Production and Quality Engineering, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Morten Lind

  3. Department of Applied Cybernetics, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Amund Skavhaug

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  1. Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, Technická 2, 166 27, Prague, Czech Republic

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  2. Department of Production Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 6, 33720, Tampere, Finland

    Jose L. Martinez Lastra

  3. Smart Solutions Ltd., Moscowskoe shosse 17, 443013, Samara, Russia

    Petr Skobelev

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Roulet-Dubonnet, O., Lind, M., Skavhaug, A. (2013). IceHMS, a Middleware for Distributed Control of Manufacturing Systems. In: Mařík, V., Lastra, J.L.M., Skobelev, P. (eds) Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40090-2_9

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