Within the field of automation technology the use of Industrial Ethernet is rising. This in turn demands devices capable of precisely recording, analyzing, and manipulating commu...
While multi-agent systems seem to provide a good basis for building complex software systems, this paper points out some of the drawbacks of classical “agent centered” multi-ag...
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) based E-mail system is the most popular application in today’s Internet world, but there are many dark clouds at the edge of the sunshin...
In this paper, we describe the Architecture Description Language (ADL) that we are defining for the design of agentbased systems. This aims at filing the gap between the analysis ...
— Production automation systems consist of many entities (like robots and shuttles) that interact in complex ways to provide the overall system functionality like product assembl...