Formal specification of ADACOR holonic control system : coordination models

Indexado ISI The formal specification of agent-based and holonic manufacturing control systems assumes a critical role in order to understand and synthesize those complex systems. This paper presents the formal specification of the coordination models for the ADACOR holonic control system. For this purpose, it is used High-Level Petri Nets to model the behavior of individual ADACOR entities, AUML interaction diagrams to represent the interaction between those entities and mailboxes structures to synchronize the evolution of the Petri net models associated to the holons. The authors would like to thank the European Commission and the partners of the Innovative Production Machines and Systems (I*PROMS;http://www.iproms.org/) Network of Excellence for their support.