TY - GEN
T1 - A holonic approach to warehouse control
AU - Moneva, H.
AU - Caarls, J.
AU - Verriet, J.H.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Warehouses play a critical role in the distribution of products of many suppliers to many customers. Traditionally, warehouse operations are controlled by centralised control systems. Because of increasing customer demands, the complexity of such systems becomes too large to respond optimally to all ware-house events. Holonic control systems try to overcome this limitation. This paper presents a framework that supports the development of holonic warehouse control systems. The framework, which is built on top of JADE middleware, allows a holonic control system to be generated from a warehouse layout model and a library of reusable behaviour components. The architecture of the framework and an example of its application to an existing warehouse are presented.
AB - Warehouses play a critical role in the distribution of products of many suppliers to many customers. Traditionally, warehouse operations are controlled by centralised control systems. Because of increasing customer demands, the complexity of such systems becomes too large to respond optimally to all ware-house events. Holonic control systems try to overcome this limitation. This paper presents a framework that supports the development of holonic warehouse control systems. The framework, which is built on top of JADE middleware, allows a holonic control system to be generated from a warehouse layout model and a library of reusable behaviour components. The architecture of the framework and an example of its application to an existing warehouse are presented.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-00487-2_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-00487-2_1
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2009), 25-27 March 2009, Salamanca, Spain
CY - Spain, Salamanca
ER -