In this paper, we advocate the use of reactive robots in industrial process control and production management. It is explained why reactive robots are well-suited to modern industr...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. Main reasons for batching are avoidance of setups and/or facilitation of material handling. Bat...
The automatic integration of devices into dynamic, automatically configured networks alone does not take advantage of the entire potential of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)...
Web service based data exchange has been the trend of EAI. We can create Proxies to expose existing systems as web services. There have been some tools that can help users to const...
The emergence of middleware solutions and new services, even on small devices, will need adapted distributed management solutions which address these specificities, both in terms ...