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Management of complexity, changes and disturbances is one of the key issues of production today. Distributed, agent-based structures represent viable alternatives to hierarchical systems provided with reactive/proactive capabilities. In the paper, approaches to distributed manufacturing architectures are surveyed, and their fundamental features are highlighted, together with the main questions to be answered while designing new structures. Moreover, an object-oriented simulation framework for development and evaluation of multi-agent manufacturing architectures is introduced.
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Ka´da´r, B., Monostori, L. & Szelke, E. An object-oriented framework for developing distributed manufacturing architectures. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 9, 173–179 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008876114686
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