Decentralised warehouse control through agent organisations

Huib Aldewereld; Frank Dignum; Marcel Hiel

doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-968-0_3

Decentralised warehouse control through agent organisations

Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum, Marcel Hiel

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Warehouse management and control systems are traditionally highly optimised to a specific situation and do not provide the flexibility required in contemporary business environments. Agents are advocated to provide adaptiveness and flexibility, and have been used to solve specific problems in the warehouse logistics domain. While decentralising the warehouse control by using agents solves issues with modularity and reusability of the software, the complexity of the system may increase, decreasing the predictability of the system. In order to solve these issues and bring the agent-based control on par with centralised control, we propose the use of agent organisations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Automation in Warehouse Development
Publisher	Springer-Verlag London Ltd
Pages	33-44
ISBN (Electronic)	9780857299680
ISBN (Print)	0857299689, 9780857299673
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-968-0_3
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2011
Externally published	Yes

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