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This paper extends our earlier work on the fault-tolerant HMS architecture and its operational model in which we also proposed an operational strategy called the temperature model. This framework allows holons to exercise their full autonomy, individualism and adaptability as their primary behaviour but it implicitly enables the HMS to exhibit its characteristic features, viz. flexibility and robustness as an emergent behaviour resulting from the primary behaviour. The paper presents a simulation study of this HMS environment in order to demonstrate empirically, the benefits of holonic cooperation. Our simulation model is characterised with an unprecedented number and mix of tasks, and random faults on manufacturing holons as is expected for a realistic, error-prone manufacturing environment. Experimental results generated from this simulation have shown how some performance metrics of the HMS converge to within the expected tolerance.
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Neligwa, T., Deen, S.M. (2003). Fault-Tolerant Behaviour in Holonic Manufacturing Systems: A Simulation Study. In: MaÅ™Ãk, V., McFarlane, D., Valckenaers, P. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45185-3_9
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