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The future of the manufacturing sector in the world will be determined by how it meets the challenges of the 21st century. Two paradigms promise to meet these challenges, multi-agent systems (MAS) and holonic system (HS). Currently, there is some misunderstanding about the relationships between these two approaches. The aim of this work is to make a study of all the characteristics of the HS and the MAS approach, in order to illustrate a comprehensive comparison of holons and agents, and, at the same time, to present a survey about the main research works in both areas.

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Giret, A., Botti, V. Holons and agents. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 15, 645–659 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JIMS.0000037714.56201.a3

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