The Role of Business-to-Control Agents in Next Generation Automation Enterprise Systems
Francisco P., Eugene Liberm · InTech eBooks · 2010
Control system level agent technology is a powerful environment that fosters cooperation of control level applications (agents) to solve a set of complex problems not easily solved with a standard control system programming such as ladder code, function blocks, etc. alone.The next logical step in the agent technology evolution is to extend the agent technology capability to the enterprise level.There are many benefits in spanning the agent capability beyond the control system level.The control system environment is not a resource rich environment and some complex large scale applications that require a great deal of computing power may not fit in it.The enterprise level agents can take advantage of the virtually unlimited resources at the enterprise level.This paper discusses the characteristic of intelligent technology and how the agents communicate and cooperate in the different levels of the automation systems. How to referenceIn order to correctly reference this scholarly work, feel free to copy and paste the following: Francisco P. Maturana and Eugene