10 Industrial A.

Question 1

Suitable domain properties

Answer 1

• Distributed and decentralized scenarios
• Open and dynamic systems
• Autonomous systems, where the user delegates the decision making authority to the system
• Complex systems

Question 2

Difficulties in adoption

Answer 2

• Limited awareness of the potential of agent technology in industry
• Limited publicity of successful agent-based industrial projects
• Misunderstandings about agent technology capabilities
• Risk of adopting a new technology that has not been proven in large-scale industrial applications yet
• Lack of mature design and development tools for industrial deployment

Question 3

Industrial Applications

Answer 3

Manufacturing control
Production planning
Logistics
Supply chain 
Traffic management
Space exploration
Distributed diagnosis