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Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) were proposed in the mid-1980s to provide a means for control of complex distributed systems. Although the topic received significant attention from the research community, which resulted in many methodologies and theoretical concepts, industrial practitioners’ adoption remained low. A wave of innovations referred to as Industry 4.0 brought new technologies focused on easier integration of heterogeneous systems. Semantic technologies were recognized as a suitable tool for the axiomatic information modelling of production systems, and the OPC-UA communication standard brought a means of secure communication and principles of object-oriented information modelling to the layer of process control. In this paper, a new MAS Platform - Cluster 4.0 Integration Platform is introduced. It utilizes (1) semantics to explicitly describe products, production, and resources for their easier integration and exploitation and (2) OPC-UA to connect software agents to physical machines.
This work was supported by institutional resources for research by the Czech Technical University in Prague, the EU Structural funds and the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic within the project ‘Cluster 4.0’ (reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_026/0008432), and the RICAIP project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 857306.
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Kadera, P., Jirkovský, V., Mařík, V. (2021). Revival of MAS Technologies in Industry. In: Hameurlain, A., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XLVIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63519-3_6
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