TY - JOUR
T1 - Stigmergy in Holonic Manufacturing Systems
AU - Valckenaers, Paul
AU - Karuna, Hadeli
AU - Kollingbaum, Martin
AU - Van Brussel, Hendrik
AU - Bochmann, Olaf
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Multi-agent coordination and control, as encountered in holonic manufacturing system implementations, can be classified according to two categories of agent interaction schemes. In the first category, agents explicitly interact and negotiate with each other. A well-known example is the contract net protocol. In the second category, the agents interact and coordinate indirectly by changing their "environment". These changes are observed by other agents and influence their behaviour. A form of coordination based on such an indirect interaction is called stigmergy. This paper describes a specific type of coordination and control belonging to the second category. It also discusses how this enables the design of a system in which agents make global information locally available to other agents without any agent becoming exposed to global system properties.
AB - Multi-agent coordination and control, as encountered in holonic manufacturing system implementations, can be classified according to two categories of agent interaction schemes. In the first category, agents explicitly interact and negotiate with each other. A well-known example is the contract net protocol. In the second category, the agents interact and coordinate indirectly by changing their "environment". These changes are observed by other agents and influence their behaviour. A form of coordination based on such an indirect interaction is called stigmergy. This paper describes a specific type of coordination and control belonging to the second category. It also discusses how this enables the design of a system in which agents make global information locally available to other agents without any agent becoming exposed to global system properties.
M3 - Article
VL - 9
SP - 281
EP - 289
JO - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
JF - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
SN - 1069-2509
IS - 3
ER -