Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) H.-S. Jacob Tsao Industrial and Systems Engineering Ph.D. in Operations Research, 1984, UC Berkeley CAM Software Development Engineer, , Consilium, Mountain View, CA (Now an Applied Materials Company) Systems Engineer, , AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Assistant, Associate and Full Research Engineer, present, UC Berkeley; part-time since 1999 Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, SJSU, present

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Publications: Books: Entropy Optimization and Mathematical Programming, 1997 Testing Component-based Software, to appear in Refereed Journal Papers Areas of Interest: Industrial Engineering Information Engineering H.-S. Jacob Tsao Industrial and Systems Engineering

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Manufacturing Applications: Agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing A Brief Review of Enabling Technologies Business Needs and Impetus Systems Requirements Agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing: Applications

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) A Brief Review of the Enabling Technologies Innovations in Information Engineering 70’s: Data Processing (“Flat Files”) 80’s: Information Systems (IS) – Real-time Database; Decision Support Systems 90’s: Information Technology (IT) – Computer + Communication + GUI; Client- Server; Internet 00’s: “Agents”? - Multi-agent Systems (MAS)

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) A Brief Review of the Enabling Technologies Manufacturing Technologies 80’s: Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) 90’s: Computer-integrated Manufacturing (CIM) 00’s: “Agent-based” Intelligent Manufacturing (AIM?)

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Software Development Paradigms 70’s: Structured Analysis 80’s: Entity-relationship; Relational Database 90’s: Object-orientation; Software Components 00’s: Agents; Multi-agent Systems (MAS)? “Broker-oriented”agents “Subject-oriented” agents: much more general A Brief Review of the Enabling Technologies

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Business Needs and Impetus Competition in the marketplace and technology, etc., led to: Globalization: Geographically Distributed Complex Supply Chain (Value Chain): Distributed among corporations Distributed within a corporation Short Product Life Cycle Agile and Lean Manufacturing

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Agile and Lean Manufacturing to Support Rapid market responsiveness: new product introduction and innovation Supply Chain Management Globalization Features: Strongly time-oriented Widely distributed Strongly diverse or heterogeneous: hardware, software, communication, security, engineering process, management, etc. Business Needs and Impetus

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Requirements for Agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing The devil is in the details. Accommodating Heterogeneous Environments Efficient Interoperability Open and Dynamic Structure Integration of Planning, Operation and Control Integration of Human with Software, Hardware and Systems Inter-organizational Cooperation

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing: Applications Agents to recognize and coordinate among various machines or subsystems of heterogeneous environments, as opposed to hard-coding coordination in CIM. (Broker-oriented) Modeling a manufacturing enterprise as interaction among semi-autonomous agents, each with a degree of control over local resources or with different information requirements. (“Subject”-oriented)

Networked – Agents and Intelligent Software Agents Group (NISA) Agent-based Intelligent Manufacturing: Applications Integrated Factory Planning, Operation and Control, with both types of agents Organizing the supply chain as a network of cooperating (“subject”- oriented) intelligent agents, equipped with (broker-oriented) agents to facilitate or enable the interaction and integration