Abstract
The design, deployment, and implementation of industrial agent systems have been influenced both by technology and an emerging set of bio-inspired production paradigms. One of the main challenges encompassing these three stages is the fact that the conceptual simplicity of the main architectural constructs is not echoed by the corresponding implementations. The conceptualization-implementation gap results from the fact that bio-inspired systems and engineered systems obey fundamentally different laws. Hence, there is a considerable mismatch in design objectives that affects most implementations. In this context, this chapter briefly surveys the latest scientific efforts from the industrial agents’ community and discusses the virtues and challenges associated with the main architectural design approaches. The chapter then articulates this discussion with the main deployment and implementation barriers, exploring both the conceptual and technical constraints and finally considers the assessment problem, which remains one of the main open challenges in the success of agent-based solutions.
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