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In the CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) field the problem of integrating Production Management activities is often viewed as nothing but a problem of Data Sharing between activities. However the integration of activities must take into account the management of conflicts between them. We propose an architecture in which the production management activities are grouped into “islands” of activities and in which the coordination and synchronization task (also called supervision task) of these activities is distributed at the level of each “island” in the form of Software called a Unit-Controller. Each Unit-Controller is a knowledge-based reactive system which uses a blackboard mechanism and which is able to dialogue with the other Unit-Controllers. General behavior models for any Unit-Controller have been defined, particularly cooperative behavior of Unit-Controllers with each other and cooperative behavior of any Unit-Controller within its island of activities. A Unit-Controller shell has been developed from which all Unit-Controllers are instantiated.
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Ayel, J., Laurent, JP. (1991). A multi-agents cooperating system for on-line supervision of Production Management activities. In: Brauer, W., Hernández, D. (eds) Verteilte Künstliche Intelligenz und kooperatives Arbeiten. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76980-1_4
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