At around the same time period of agent’s evolution as software agents, actor model was introduced. Actors can be considered as the simpler version of agents: like the agents they are lightweight processes and reactive to the messages that they receive, but without the sophisticated decision-making that agents are capable of incorporating. Actors are preferred […]

Intelligent agents (or simply agents) perceive the environment through sensors and act upon that environment through actuators. These actions are based on autonomous or collective decisions made by the agents.  Based on their decision-making strategy, agents are commonly classified as:  Logic-based agents – which take the decision on what action to perform based on logical deduction […]

A simple GUI As we build the theory of the Blind Watchmaker and implement it in our Smart-MaaS system it is important that we consider the user and their role. As we know from our Design Genes Series, we have created ‘design genes’ that encode the genotype of an organism. These genes are stored in […]

The advancement of information and communication technology (ICT) has brought a huge revolution in the manufacturing industry, which is coined as Industry 4.0. When we talk about Industry 4.0, we often end up discussing digital manufacturing, distributed manufacturing or collaborative manufacturing – all of these manufacturing paradigms leverage ICT to foster product quality and reduce […]

Digital manufacturing refers to the manufacturing process that uses computer systems. Due to the recent advancement in the information and communication technology (ICT) field, digital manufacturing is growing in a rapid manner and the manufacturing industry is adopting it in a large scale. Specifically, the emergence of cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial […]

As the needs of the customers continue to increase, Biohaviour is expanding on the capabilities of cloud-based manufacturing to meet the customer requirements with the development of a new Smart Manufacturing-as-a-Service (SmartMaaS) framework. What SmartMaaS can offer to the general customers? Quality product: SmartMaaS can deliver a quality product as a result of responsive product design […]