A survey on factors that impact industrial agent acceptance

Although the agent technology has been with us some decades now, its acceptance in industry is still limited. As such, we conducted a survey and investigated the main factors that impact it. Thus, key industrial agent aspects are investigated-i.e., design, technology, intelligence/algorithms, standa...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Leitão, Paulo (author)
Outros Autores: Karnouskos, Stamatis (author)
Formato: bookPart
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2018
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/2045
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/2045
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Resumo:Although the agent technology has been with us some decades now, its acceptance in industry is still limited. As such, we conducted a survey and investigated the main factors that impact it. Thus, key industrial agent aspects are investigated-i.e., design, technology, intelligence/algorithms, standardization, hardware, challenges, applications, and cost. The results are analyzed and discussed, confirming that a decision on agent utilization in productive industrial systems is a complex undertaking, and there are still many issues to be resolved in order to lead to a wider acceptance of industrial agents.