Agents and Objects: Towards Component Integration for Manufacturing Systems Re-engineering [chapter]

Leonid Borisovitch Sheremetov, Alexander Victorovitch Smirnov
1998 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
This article reports on an experiment in which the pre-existing engineering systems for the small and medium size FMS re-engineering were transformed into an open framework of cooperating agents -DESO. To reflect the standards of communication in a distributed multi-agent system, the multi-level model and the agent template, reflecting this model are proposed. Agents coordinate their activities using a communication and controllanguage (currently, restricted version of KQML) and DCOM/ActiveX
more » ... eraction mechanisms. The results of experiments and future work on the system development are considered.
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35390-6_8 fatcat:o5q4pzs7mvhq7bl7rua6jzthby