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    <rdfs:label><![CDATA[An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment]]></rdfs:label>
    <pub:title><![CDATA[An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment]]></pub:title>
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    <pub:abstract><![CDATA[A great deal of research and development effort has been
undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected
manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application
software systems so that the enterprises can react quickly and
accurately to the ever changing market dynamics. In such an
integrated P/E environment it is, at times, necessary to bring in
a new application in order to replace an outmoded one or to
provide functionality that is not available in the existing
environment. The process of introducing a new application,
Application Initialization, is very complicated and can be
extremely costly in terms of time and resources.
In this paper we propose a multi-agent system (MAS) to assist
with the application initialization process. A collection of eight
agents with specialized expertise is assembled to carry out the
operational steps of the initialization process. These agents
interact with each other, with other applications in the
environment, and with the human specialist in the process. All
agents speak KQML language, supported by Jackal, a JAVA
based, light-weighted and flexible agent communication
infrastructure we have developed.
The MAS is tested with an integrated environment involving
real P/E applications. The success of the experiment
demonstrates that MAS is a technically viable approach for
providing flexible and inexpensive solutions to difficult tasks
(application initialization and others) in the integration of
manufacturing planning and execution.]]></pub:abstract>
    <pub:address><![CDATA[Orlando, Florida, USA]]></pub:address>
    <pub:organization><![CDATA[SCI'99/ISAS'99]]></pub:organization>
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    <pub:tag><![CDATA[ecommerce]]></pub:tag>
    <pub:tag><![CDATA[kqml]]></pub:tag>
    <pub:tag><![CDATA[agent communication]]></pub:tag>
    <pub:booktitle><![CDATA[Proceedings of the 3rd. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and The 5th. Int'l Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (SCI'99/ISAS'99)]]></pub:booktitle>
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