{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,8]],"date-time":"2026-05-08T21:44:21Z","timestamp":1778276661987,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":26,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"4","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[1996,8,1]],"date-time":"1996-08-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":838857600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/tdm"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Intell Manuf"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1996,8]]},"DOI":"10.1007\/bf00124828","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,10,31]],"date-time":"2004-10-31T11:52:12Z","timestamp":1099223532000},"page":"257-270","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":157,"title":["Multi-agent Mediator architecture for distributed manufacturing"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Francisco P.","family":"Maturana","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Douglas H.","family":"Norrie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","reference":[{"key":"CR1","unstructured":"Barbuceanu, M. and Fox, M. (1994) The information agent: an infrastructure for collaboration in the integrated enterprise, in Proceedings of the Second International Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems, University of Keele, 14?17 June."},{"issue":"1","key":"CR2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1109\/TSMC.1981.4308573","volume":"11","author":"B. Chandrasekaran","year":"1981","unstructured":"Chandrasekaran, B. (1981) Natural and social system metaphors for distributed problem solving: introduction to the issue. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 11 (1), 1?5.","journal-title":"IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics"},{"key":"CR3","unstructured":"Christensen, J. H. (1994) Holonic manufacturing systems: initial architecture and standards directions, in First European Conference on Holonic Manufacturing Systems, Hanover, Germany, December."},{"key":"CR4","unstructured":"Christensen, J. H., Struger, O. J., Norrie, D. H. and Schaeffer, C. (1994) Material handling requirements in holonic manufacturing systems, International Symposium on Materials Handling Research, Grand Rapids, MI, 12?15 June."},{"key":"CR5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"315","DOI":"10.1016\/0278-6125(88)90042-8","volume":"7","author":"N. A. Duffie","year":"1987","unstructured":"Duffie, N. A., Chitturi, R. and Mou, J. (1987) Fault-tolerant heterarchical control of heterogeneous manufacturing system entities. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 7, 315?327.","journal-title":"Journal of Manufacturing Systems"},{"key":"CR6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"175","DOI":"10.1016\/0736-5845(87)90099-8","volume":"3","author":"N. A. Duffie","year":"1987","unstructured":"Duffie, N. A. and Piper, R. S. (1987) Non-hierarchical control of a flexible manufacturing cell. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 3, 175?179.","journal-title":"Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing"},{"key":"CR7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1007\/978-1-4613-1699-2","volume-title":"Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers","author":"H. E. Durfee","year":"1988","unstructured":"Durfee, H. E. (1988) Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands."},{"key":"CR8","series-title":"Technical Report","volume-title":"KQML - a language and protocol for knowledge and information exchange","author":"T. Finin","year":"1993","unstructured":"Finin, T., Fritzon, R., McKay, D. and McEntire, R. (1993) KQML - a language and protocol for knowledge and information exchange, Technical Report, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD."},{"key":"CR9","unstructured":"Gaines, B. R. and Norrie, D. H. (1994) Mediator: information and knowledge management for the virtual factory, in Proceedings of SIGMAN AAAI 94 Workshop on ?Reasoning About the Shop Floor?, Seattle, WA, pp. 30?39."},{"key":"CR10","volume-title":"Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems","author":"Y. L. Grace","year":"1994","unstructured":"Grace, Y. L. and Solberg, J. J. (1994) Autonomous control for open manufacturing systems, in Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Joshi, S. B. and Smith, J. S. (eds), Chapman & Hall, London."},{"key":"CR11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kirn, S. and Schneider, J. (1992) STRICT: selecting the right architecture, in Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Lectures in Artificial Intelligence 604, pp. 390?400. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.","DOI":"10.1007\/BFb0024991"},{"key":"CR12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kwok, A. D. (1993) Information systems architecture for intelligent manufacturing, PhD Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary.","DOI":"10.1007\/BF00124141"},{"issue":"2","key":"CR13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"83","DOI":"10.3233\/ICA-1993-1106","volume":"1","author":"A. D. Kwok","year":"1993","unstructured":"Kwok, A. D. and Norrie, D. H. (1993) Integrating multiple reasoning in intelligent agent systems. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 1 (2), 83?90.","journal-title":"Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering"},{"key":"CR14","unstructured":"Lesser, V. R. and Erman, L. D. (1975) A multi-level organization for problem solving using many, diverse, cooperating sources of knowledge, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR, September, pp. 483?490."},{"key":"CR15","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Maturana, F. P. and Norrie, D. H. (1995) A generic mediator for multi-agent coordination in a distributed manufacturing system, in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 952?957.","DOI":"10.1109\/ICSMC.1995.537890"},{"key":"CR16","unstructured":"Mayrand, E., Lefrancois, P. and Montreuil, B. (1992) An agentoriented simulation model of manufacturing activities, in Proceedings of International Conference on Object-Oriented Manufacturing Systems, Calgary, Alberta, 3?6 May, pp. 239?244."},{"key":"CR17","unstructured":"Montreuil, B. and Lefrancois, P. (1992) Organism-oriented modeling of manufacturing systems, in Proceedings of International Conference on Object-Oriented Manufacturing Systems, Calgary, Alberta, 3?6 May, pp. 194?199."},{"key":"CR18","unstructured":"Norrie, D. H. (1989) An integrated object-oriented architecture for manufacturing knowledge systems, in Proceedings of the IJCAI-89 Workshop on Integrated Architectures for Manufacturing, Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, MI, 20?25 August, p. 4."},{"key":"CR19","first-page":"225","volume-title":"Object-oriented distributed artificial intelligence","author":"D. H. Norrie","year":"1992","unstructured":"Norrie, D. H. and Kwok, A. D. (1992) Object-oriented distributed artificial intelligence, in Proceedings of International Symposium on New Results and New Trends in Computer Science, Graz, Austria, 20?21 June 1991, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 225?242."},{"key":"CR20","unstructured":"Okino, N. (1992) A prototyping of bionic manufacturing systems, in Proceedings of International Conference on Object-Oriented Manufacturing Systems, Calgary, Alberta, 3?6 May, pp. 297?303."},{"issue":"6","key":"CR21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1391","DOI":"10.1109\/21.135684","volume":"21","author":"J. Y. C. Pan","year":"1991","unstructured":"Pan, J. Y. C. and Tenenbaum, M. J. (1991) An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 21 (6), 1391?1408.","journal-title":"IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics"},{"key":"CR22","series-title":"Technical Report","volume-title":"Agent-oriented programming","author":"Y. Shoham","year":"1990","unstructured":"Shoham, Y. (1990) Agent-oriented programming, Technical Report, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA."},{"issue":"1","key":"CR23","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"61","DOI":"10.1109\/TSMC.1981.4308579","volume":"11","author":"R. G. Smith","year":"1981","unstructured":"Smith, R. G. and Davis, R. (1981) Frameworks for cooperation in distributed problem solving. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 11 (1), 61?69.","journal-title":"IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics"},{"key":"CR24","unstructured":"Ueda, K. (1992) An approach to bionic manufacturing systems based on DNA-type information, in Proceedings of International Conference on Object-Oriented Manufacturing Systems, Calgary, Alberta, 3?6 May, pp. 303?308."},{"key":"CR25","unstructured":"Valckenaers, P. (1993) WP3: critical factors, HMS Consortium Document HMS\/WP6 (Valckenaers) 1212, 14 December."},{"issue":"3","key":"CR26","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"38","DOI":"10.1109\/2.121508","volume":"25","author":"G. Wiederhold","year":"1992","unstructured":"Wiederhold, G. (1992) Mediators in the architecture of future information systems. Computer, 25 (3), 38?48.","journal-title":"Computer"}],"container-title":["Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/BF00124828.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/BF00124828\/fulltext.html","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/BF00124828","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,3]],"date-time":"2019-04-03T09:18:08Z","timestamp":1554283088000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/BF00124828"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1996,8]]},"references-count":26,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[1996,8]]}},"alternative-id":["BF00124828"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/bf00124828","relation":{},"ISSN":["0956-5515","1572-8145"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0956-5515","type":"print"},{"value":"1572-8145","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1996,8]]}}}