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The holonic enterprise: a model for Internet‐enabled global manufacturing supply chain and workflow management

Mihaela Ulieru (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Robert W. Brennan (Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Scott S. Walker (Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

ISSN: 0957-6061

Article publication date: 1 December 2002

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Abstract

Merges the latest results obtained by the holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) consortium with the latest developed standards for platform interoperability released by the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) to propose a novel e‐business model: the holonic e‐enterprise (HE). The HE extends both the HMS and FIPA models. On one side it extends the holonic manufacturing paradigm with one top level, the inter‐enterprise one. On the other side it extends the multi‐agent system (MAS) paradigm to the hardware (physical machine) level.

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Ulieru, M., Brennan, R.W. and Walker, S.S. (2002), "The holonic enterprise: a model for Internet‐enabled global manufacturing supply chain and workflow management", Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 13 No. 8, pp. 538-550. https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210448125

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