Weaving an agent-based Semantic Grid for distributed collaborative manufacturing

Yin, J.W.; Zhang, W.Y.; Cai, Meifeng

doi:10.1080/00207540802582870

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“…As System Complexity derives from the flexibility of agents, the evolution process can be described by modeling agents' behaviors. In recent years, ABM has been used to deal with problems such as power distribution, manufacturing, finance, and natural resource management [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. The primary advantage of an agentbased simulation is that it allows the study of emergent behavior of complex systems in a bottom-up fashion [31].…”

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Agent Behavior-Based Simulation Study on Mass Collaborative Product Development Process

Zhang

2015

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Mass collaborative product development (MCPD) benefits people by high innovation products with lower cost and shorter lead time due to quick development of group innovation, Internet-based customization, and prototype manufacturing. Simulation is an effective way to study the evolution process and therefore to guarantee the success of MCPD. In this paper, an agent behavior-based simulation approach of MCPD is developed, which models the MCPD process as the interactive process of design agents and the environment objects based on Complex Adaptive System (CAS) theory. Next, the structure model of design agent is proposed, and the modification and collaboration behaviors are described. Third, the agent behavior-based simulation flow of MCPD is designed. At last, simulation experiments are carried out based on an engineering case of mobile phone design. The experiment results show the following: (1) the community scale has significant influence on MCPD process; (2) the simulation process can explicitly represent the modification and collaboration behaviors of design agents; (3) the community evolution process can be observed and analyzed dynamically based on simulation data.

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Section: Open Innovation Mcpd Is a Typical Kind Of Open Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agent Behavior-Based Simulation Study on Mass Collaborative Product Development Process

Zhang

2015

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…There are many known researches that have been conducted to support the distributed manufacturing operations using information technology concepts’ capabilities. 86–89 The Cloud manufacturing paradigm can ensure to support the mentioned researches in the form of defined services. These services enable the distributed manufacturing agents to collaborate with each other in distributed geographical locations.…”

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Depicting additive manufacturing from a global perspective; using Cloud manufacturing paradigm for integration and collaboration

Valilai

Houshmand

2014

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B:

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Globalization is one of the widely considered factors in today’s manufacturing industries. This paradigm may be adopted for new technologies such as additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing has been identified as an innovative manufacturing technology in recent years. The characteristics of this manufacturing technology, especially its support for quick design to manufacturing, have dominated it as an efficient generation of manufacturing techniques for today’s global manufacturing paradigm. This article discusses the requirements and necessities of additive manufacturing with respect to a globalized perspective. Considering the two major requirements studied as integration of manufacturing operations and enabling collaboration in distributed manufacturing networks, this article proposes an idea as an enabler of additive manufacturing in the global paradigm. This idea proposes the application of Cloud manufacturing paradigm as one of the recent researches for global manufacturing environments. The capabilities of the Cloud manufacturing to fulfill the requirements and necessities of additive manufacturing in global paradigm are discussed and elaborated through a comprehensive case study. The case study uses the recent researches of the authors for an integrated and collaborative distributed Cloud manufacturing platform named XMLAYMOD platform. This article discusses the different aspects of the Cloud manufacturing–based solution for additive manufacturing systems.

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“…Munoz-Gea et al (2010) developed a P2P-based supply chain service discovery prototype based on the top of DHT and utilized an eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) to prevent the use of a service by unauthorized entities. Our previous study (Yin et al, 2010) has proposed an agent-based and P2P-based Semantic Grid for distributed manufacturing collaboration. A hierarchy of autonomous, adaptive agents forming a super peer–based P2P network is laid out in the Semantic Grid to provide, in an open, dynamic, loosely coupled and scalable manner, the service publication, discovery, and reuse for management of applications that need to utilize manufacturing Grid services.…”

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A reputation-based peer-to-peer architecture for semantic service discovery in distributed manufacturing environments

Zhang

Cai

et al. 2012

Concurrent Engineering

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The rapidly increasing volume of today's global manufacturing resources is demanding new approaches for resource location or discovery in distributed manufacturing environments. This article presents an ontology-based service-oriented peer-to-peer architecture for semantic discovery of manufacturing services across virtual enterprises in distributed manufacturing environments. Each enterprise exhibits as a peer that publishes sharable manufacturing services through its private service registry. The peers sharing similar ontological interests through ontological directory are clustered together, and the most reputed peer is elected as the super peer through multicriteria decision making among related trust parameters. All super peers form a reputed distributed hash table-based structured peer-to-peer overlay, and the leaf peers are communicated with and controlled by respective super peers. Then, a manufacturing service request can be first routed to the suitable super peer through structured indexing and further to its leaf peer through client/server communication, thus supporting efficient service discovery. The case study of the prototype system is presented to validate the applicability of the proposed approach for industrial application.

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Weaving an agent-based Semantic Grid for distributed collaborative manufacturing

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Agent Behavior-Based Simulation Study on Mass Collaborative Product Development Process

Agent Behavior-Based Simulation Study on Mass Collaborative Product Development Process

Depicting additive manufacturing from a global perspective; using Cloud manufacturing paradigm for integration and collaboration

A reputation-based peer-to-peer architecture for semantic service discovery in distributed manufacturing environments

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