Author supplied: The production system described in this paper in an implementation of an agile agent-based production system. This system is designed to meet the requirements of modern production, where short time to market, requirementdriven production and low cost small quantity production are important …

This paper describes an agent-based software infrastructure for agile industrial production. This production is done on special devices called equiplets. A grid of these equiplets connected by a fast network is capable of producing a variety of different products in parallel. The multi-agent-based underlying …

In de gezondheidszorg hebben in het afgelopen decennium diverse ontwikkelingen plaatsgevonden. Een voorbeeld hiervan is de verschuiving van aanbodgerichte- naar vraaggerichte zorg. Vraaggericht werken betekent dat de hulpverlener naar de vraag van de patiënt luistert en samen met de patiënt tot een overeenstemming …

Training systems with intelligent virtual agents provide an effective means to train people for complex, dynamic tasks like crisis management or firefighting. Virtual agents provide more adequate behavior and explanations if they not only take their own goals and beliefs into account, but also the assumed …