Chapter 4

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

Armando Walter Colombo1,2; Stamatis Karnouskos3; João Marco Mendes2; Paulo Leitão4,5    1 University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany2 Schneider Electric Automation GmbH, Marktheidenfeld, Germany3 SAP, Karlsruhe, Germany4 Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal5 LIACC—Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory, Porto, Portugal

Abstract

The umbrella paradigm underpinning novel collaborative industrial systems is to consider the set of intelligent system units as a conglomerate of distributed, autonomous, intelligent, proactive, fault-tolerant, and reusable units, which operate as a set ...

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