An Agent-based Manufacturing Management System for Production and   Logistics within Cross-Company Regional and National Production Networks
  The goal is the development of a simultaneous, dynamic, technological as well as logistical real-time planning and an organizational control of the production by the production units themselves, working in the production network under the use of Multi-Agent-Technology. The design of the multi-agent-based manufacturing management system, the models of the single agents, algorithms for the agent-based, decentralized dispatching of orders, strategies and data management concepts as well as their integration into the SCM, basing on the solution described, will be explained in the following.   Keywords: production engineering and management, dynamic manufacturing planning and control, multi-agentsystems (MAS), supply-chain-management (SCM), e-manufacturing 
S. Heinrich, H. Durr, T. Hanel and J. Lassig