ARCHON: A Distributed Artificial Intelligence System for Industrial Applications
OA Location
Author(s)
Cockburn, D
Jennings, NR
Type
Chapter
Abstract
ARCHON? (ARchitecture for Cooperative Heterogeneous ON-line systems) is Europe?s largest project in the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). It has devised a general-purpose architecture, software framework and methodology which has been used to support the development of DAI systems in a number of industrial domains. Some examples of the applications to which it has been successfully applied include: electricity distribution and supply, electricity transmission and distribution, control of a cement kiln complex, control of a particle accelerator, and control of a robotics application. The type of cooperating community that it supports has a decentralised control regime and individual problem solving agents which are large grain, loosely coupled, and semi-autonomous.
Editor(s)
Hare, GMPO
Jennings, NR
Date Issued
1996-04-30
Citation
Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 1996, pp.319-344
ISBN
978-0-471-00675-6
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
319
End Page
344
Journal / Book Title
Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Copyright Statement
© 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/252186/
Publication Status
Published