
doi: 10.5772/5043
Agent theory is developed from distributed artificial intelligence, which is re-garded as a prospective methodology suitable for solving distributed complex problems, and it has been applied in many areas including manufacturing en-gineering. In this chapter, some basic issues for agent theory are described and an example of one agent-based distributed manufacturing system is presented.
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