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Open AccessCollaborative approaches in sustainable and resilient manufacturing
In recent years, the manufacturing sector is going through a major transformation, as reflected in the concept of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. The urge for such transformation is intensified when w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modular and Configurable Internet of Things Devices for Value Chain Digitalization
Nowadays, the volatility of value chains and the growing need for digitization, both for transparency and optimization, force companies to reduce the time and costs of develo** Internet of Things (IoT) devic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reconfigurable Framework for Data Extraction Using Interoperable Brokers in Manufacturing
Technology is an integral part of society and has undergone a great deal of evolution in many different areas, like production or recreation, leading to the emergence of heterogeneous systems. These various sy...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Brief Overview of Collaborative Approaches in Sustainable Manufacturing
The manufacturing sector is experiencing a profound transformation as reflected in the Industry 4.0 movement, combined with the growing societal concerns for sustainability. This trend has led to the notion of...
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Artificial immune systems based multi-agent architecture to perform distributed diagnosis
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) emerge as a new idea to implement new manufacturing paradigms. There paradigms aim at answering the socio-economic factors that characterise modern enterprises, such as mass custom...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Production Scheduling Requirements to Smart Manufacturing
The production scheduling has attracted a lot of researchers for many years, however most of the approaches are not targeted to deal with real manufacturing environments, and those that are, are very particula...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Big Data Analysis to Ease Interconnectivity in Industry 4.0—A Smart Factory Perspective
Thriving and challenging market trends led to changes in the manufacturing industry. Production lines that need to adapt to customisable products on the fly emerged. By applying communication and sensors to th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Model to Perform Pluggability of Heterogeneous Smart Devices into Smart City Environment
Nowadays smart cities are becoming more and more a hot topic in the technological world. Some different approaches emerged and many city departments approved investigation and implementation of the smart city ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Highly Flexible, Distributed Data Analysis Framework for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Systems
In modern manufacturing, high volumes of data are constantly being generated by the manufacturing processes. However, only a small percentage is actually used in a meaningful way. As part of the H2020 PERFoRM ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Simulation for MAS-Based Data Acquisition and Pre-processing in Manufacturing Using V-REP
With the advent of the Industry 4.0 movement, smart multiagent-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) are being more and more often proposed as a possible solution to tackle the requirements of intelligence, plugg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Evolvable and Adaptable Agent Based Smart Grid Management—A Simulation Environment
The liberalization of energy markets and shift towards intensive distributed use has provoked a change in the operating paradigm of electricity distribution networks. The continuity and the reliability of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Generic Reconfigurable and Pluggable Material Handling System Based on Genetic Algorithm
With the increasing customization of products there was a need to create new manufacturing systems that were able to satisfy these needs of the market. The Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) emerges as ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Mining of Energy Consumption in Manufacturing Environment
Markets and consequently manufacturing companies are facing an unprecedented challenge. The constant markets demand of more and more customized and personalized products combined with the recent evolution of i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Environment to Simulate Distributed Agent Based Manufacturing Systems
With the constant evolution of markets, new paradigms have emerged. Those new paradigms require solutions more versatile and able to cope with the unexpected changes. The world of manufacturing involves many r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PRIME as a Generic Agent Based Framework to Support Pluggability and Reconfigurability Using Different Technologies
Presently the manufacturers are facing a challenging and important period. The markets are very different comparatively to the past, with constant changes and facing a big crisis. Hence, with these new charact...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Migration from Conventional Manufacturing Systems for Multi-Agent Paradigm: the First Step
The consumer market ever more calls for diversified products in small batches and the industry lacks production systems that meet the demands with efficiency and ability to adapt quickly. Integrated manufactur...