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Abstract
Nowadays, the industry is very demanding in terms of customized high quality products at lower costs. Furthermore, the customers intention of having the product as soon as possible, and companies having the restriction of time, which in this case is a crucial variable, also increases the nal product cost. For this reason, it becomes unacceptable the development of solutions based on centralized implementations, which do not provide robustness, exibility and recon gurability. Therefore, the implementation of multi-agent based solutions ful l the described requirements leading to a more exible, robust and agile system.
This work presents the development of an important issue concerning the cooperation between the distributed agents, since one of them only has a partial view of the system. In this way the ontologies are crucial to guarantee a common structure of the knowledge exchanged among the agents.
The objective of this work is the development of an ontology integrating process and quality levels to be used to represent the knowledge exchanged in a multi-agent system solution for a production line producing washing machines. Consequently, the agents exchanging shared knowledge will support better and more accurate decisions.
The contribution of this work comprises the implementation of a multi-agent system, the appropriate ontology formulation as well as its implementation, which makes the integration of an industrial production line more versatile and more customized. Naturally, with this project, it is created a recon gurable and highly interoperable system.





