A MULTIAGENTS SYSTEM TO CREATE CONTROL AGENTS

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TABLE 1 Tasks of the SIGECO Agents

• Agent concept building tasks

○ Attribute adding

○ Adding links to libraries

○ Adding method

○ Adding of parameters

○ Adding initiation code

○ Adding behavior

○ Create behavior source code

• Code creation tasks

○ Creation of agent source code

○ Creation of agent object code

○ Incorporation of agents to SCDIA

• Communication tasks

○ Request receiving

○ Transmission

TABLE 2 Exchange Between the CGC Agents

Initiation agent
	Involved agents	Exchange	Service
AC	AC-AGC	Control agent creation request	Creation of control agent source code (AGC)
AC	AC-ACS	Behavior code creation request	Creation of source code of the behavior model (ACS)
AC	AC-AGC	Verifies if the agent was successfully created	Creation source code of the control agent (AGC)

FIGURE 1 Request conversation of the creation of a control agent.

FIGURE 2 Functional composition of the source code of an agent.

FIGURE 3 Packages hierarchy of the SCDIA.

FIGURE 4 Central agent interface of the CGC.

FIGURE 5 Graphic interface of the behavior generator agent.

FIGURE 6 Dialog frame for add/edit links to libraries.

FIGURE 7 Dialog screen for add/edit methods.

FIGURE 8 Dialog screen for add/edit behaviors.

FIGURE 9 Source code of an agent.

FIGURE 10 Sugar refining process (Smith and Corripio, 2006).

FIGURE 11 Messages exchanged between the agents of the study case.

Smith , C. , and A. Corripio . 2006 . Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control () , 3rd ed. . New York : John Wiley & Sons .

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