Designing an integrated holonic scheduler with JACK

The paper identifies one of the key gaps in the current model of holonic manufacturing systems (HMS). Namely the lack of an integrated scheduler to satisfy both top-down (order-driven) and bottom-up (resource-driven) approaches within the scope of an agent-based HMS. The paper also presents how some of these conceptual ideas could be implemented using JACK, a commercial autonomous agent system from Agent Oriented Software (AOS).