An agent- and service-based collaborative design architecture under a dynamic integration environment

Weaving an agent-based Semantic Grid for distributed collaborative manufacturing

“…It is natural to provide an agent layer for better organising the distributed, multiple agents in a class hierarchy to support resource management for distributed collaborative manufacturing. However, the traditional agent-service collaboration (e.g., Zhang et al 2006, Qiu et al 2007) adopts a centralised system architecture where agent representation, management and communication are all controlled by the centralised server, without relieving the bandwidth and server bottleneck problems associated with the centralised services. Therefore the authors propose a multi-agent architecture on top of Sun's P2P platform JXTA (www.jxta.org).…”

“…In our previous work (Zhang et al 2006), a service-oriented multi-agent architecture is developed in the Semantic Grid, allowing various Grid services for distributed applications to be annotated with domain resource ontology to facilitate their autonomous deployment, reuse and federation in multidisciplinary collaborative design in a meaningful and flexible way. Qiu et al (2007) proposed an agent-and service-based collaborative design architecture under a dynamic integration environment, in which, intelligent web-agent groups act as the function backbone to organise the service-based running of the system. The above successful systems of agent-service collaboration are extended by the authors in the current paper to develop an agent-based Semantic Grid through a 'super peer' based P2P overlay network for more complicated distributed manufacturing environments.…”

Development of a collaborative virtual maintenance environment with agent technology

“…For multi-agent technology as the other research stream, even if there is much literature in various areas, we concentrate on the agent-based application in mechanism engineering fields, such as in product design process [23][24][25], in process planning process [26][27][28], in fixture design process [29], in production planning and scheduling process [30][31][32][33], in product maintenance process [34], in supply chain system [35], in workflow system [36,37] etc. A few researchers apply agent technology to manufacturing system [38][39][40], such as manufacturing resource management [41], manufacturing task assignment [42], manufacturing system control [43], manufacturing knowledge management [44], manufacturing system integration [45] etc.…”