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Agent Technology, or Agent-Based Approaches, is a new paradigm for developing software applications. It has been hailed as 'the next significant breakthough in software development', and 'the new revolution in software'
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Agent technology represents a new paradigm for developing software applications. It has been hailed as 'the next significant breakthrough in software development', or 'the new revolution in software', coming after object technology and object-oriented programming.
In this context, an agent is a computer system module, capable of acting autonomously in its environment in order to meet its design objectives. In particular, in concurrent design and manufacturing, agents can be used to encapsulate existing software systems so as to resolve legacy problems and realize enterprise integration; and agents can represent manufacturing resources such as operators, machines, and tools, as well as products and parts, to implement distributed production planning, scheduling and execution control. Agents can also serve as inter-mediators facilitating communication, cooperation and coordination among agents, and providing translation services (such as STEP data translation) between agents so that heterogeneous agents (including encapsulated legacy systems) can function together. Agent-based systems have no centralized system control structure, and no predefined agenda for system execution, such as exists in a traditional system.
Professional engineers, industrial and university researchers, and postgraduates will find in this book an invaluable presentation of multi-agent theories and methods, as well as practical examples and guidelines for developing multi-agent systems in the manufacturing domain.
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