MAS and SOA: Complementary Automation Paradigms

Ribeiro, Luís; Barata, José; Mendes, Pedro

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09492-2_28

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“…In spite of being based on the same concept of providing a distributed approach to the system, MAS and SOA present some important differences, namely in terms of computational requirements and interoperability, as illustrated in Table 4.1. (Ribeiro et al (2008) provide a deeper study of these differences. )…”

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“…The first traditional option, illustrated in Figure 4.3a, Ribeiro et al (2008) considers gateways to translate the semantics from the agent world to the services world. According to the FIPA specifications, this task is basically performed by translating:…”

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“…Being both currently the most promising concepts in this matter, the suggestion is that there are substantial benefits in converging both paradigms and technologies [13]. Other conclusions can be obtained from the application in other fields, as described in the next subsection.…”

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Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

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Abstract. Service-oriented Multi-Agent Systems (SoMAS) is an approach to combine the fundamental characteristics of service-oriented and multi-agent methods into a new platform for industrial automation. Several research works already targeted the connection of these technologies, presenting different perspectives in how and why to join them. This research focuses on available efforts and solutions in the area of SoMAS and explains the idea behind the service-oriented agents in industrial automation. A SoMAS system is mainly composed by shared resources in form of services and their providing/requesting agents. The paper also discusses the required engineering aspects of these systems, from the internal anatomy to the interaction patterns. Parameters of flexibility, reconfiguration, autonomy and reduced development efforts were considered and they should be the trademark of SoMAS. Aiming to illustrate the proposed approach, an example of service-oriented automation agents is given.

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“…The lacks in terms of interoperability exhibited by the MAS solutions can be overcome by combining the SOA principles, and especially by using the Web services technology. In fact, in spite of being based on the same concept of providing a distributed approach to the system, MAS and SOA present some important differences, namely in terms of autonomy and interoperability (see [9] for a deep study). These differences highlight the complementary aspects of the two paradigms, suggesting the benefits of combining them [9].…”

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Towards Self-organized Service-Oriented Multi-agent Systems

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Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi Agent Manufacturing and Robotics

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Abstract. The demand for large-scale systems running in complex and even chaotic environments requires the consideration of new paradigms and technologies that provide flexibility, robustness, agility and responsiveness. Multiagents systems is pointed out as a suitable approach to address this challenge by offering an alternative way to design control systems, based on the decentralization of control functions over distributed autonomous and cooperative entities. However, in spite of their enormous potential, they usually lack some aspects related to interoperability, optimization in decentralized structures and truly self-adaptation. This paper discusses a new perspective to engineer adaptive complex systems considering a 3-layer framework integrating several complementary paradigms and technologies. In a first step, it suggests the integration of multi-agent systems with service-oriented architectures to overcome the limitations of interoperability and smooth migration, followed by the use of technology enablers, such as cloud computing and wireless sensor networks, to provide a ubiquitous and reconfigurable environment. Finally, the resulted service-oriented multi-agent system should be enhanced with biologically inspired techniques, namely self-organization, to reach a truly robust, agile and adaptive system.

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MAS and SOA: Complementary Automation Paradigms

Cited by 58 publications

References 30 publications

Industrial Agents in the Era of Service-Oriented Architectures and Cloud-Based Industrial Infrastructures

Industrial Agents in the Era of Service-Oriented Architectures and Cloud-Based Industrial Infrastructures

Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems

Towards Self-organized Service-Oriented Multi-agent Systems

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