Abstract
Designs for real-world agent-based systems must reflect both domain requirements and technical capabilities. This paper illustrates some of the requirements for agents in manufacturing scheduling and shows how they lead to an architecture that addresses them, in the context of AARIA (Autonomous Agents for Rock Island Arsenal), an industrial-strength agent-based shop-floor control and scheduling architecture. A review of other agent-based manufacturing systems illustrates how the design choices made in such systems reflect the requirements anticipated by the authors.
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