Hyperagent Smart Factories Based on Fractal Petri Nets: Ensuring Elasticity and Sustainability

There are several challenges associated with modeling smart factories, particularly in terms of the multi agent system. Hyperagent modeling, a technique involving fractal Petri nets, can significantly enhance the flexibility and sustainability of smart factories. By coordinating and managing multiple meta agents, hyperagents can optimize resource allocation, reduce waste, and improve efficiency. This approach can be applied to various scales of granularity, from individual machines to entire production lines. Smart factories are leveraging their sustainability through elastic computing-supported processes such as "folding" and "unfolding" of hyperagents modeled by fractal Petri nets. The paper is discussing the application of elastic computing and hyperagents in smart factories, specifically using a theoretical framework and a method of hyperagent release through folding of Petri nets.