Armando Walter Colombo
IAR Systems
223 Papers
2K Citations
Armando Walter Colombo is an academic researcher from IAR Systems. The author has contributed to research in topics: Automation & Petri net. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 213 publications. Previous affiliations of Armando Walter Colombo include University of Lisbon & Schneider Electric.
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Papers
Assessment of industrial middleware technologies for the PERFoRM project
Frederik Gosewehr,Jeffrey Wermann,Armando Walter Colombo +2 more
- 01 Oct 2016
TL;DR: The paper describes the assessment of existing industrial Middleware solutions which are targeting re-configurability and connectivity of modern industrial environments and states a set of important functional requirements which need to be considered to select the right solution for individual use cases.
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Injecting service-orientation into multi-agent systems in industrial automation
Joao Marco Mendes,Francisco Restivo,Paulo Leitão,Armando Walter Colombo +3 more
- 01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: This work presents the advance of service-orientation into multi-agent system in industrial automation, and shows that there are many benefits, namely the aspects of knowledge representation, communication, plug & play, interactions, beside others.
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Enhancing device exchange agility in Service-oriented industrial automation
Goncalo Candido,Carlos Sousa,Giovanni Di Orio,Jose Barata,Armando Walter Colombo +4 more
- 28 May 2013
TL;DR: A SOA-based infrastructure comprising Semantic Web concepts is implemented to enhance the process of exchanging a device in an industrial automation environment by assisting (and even automate) this task supported by service and device semantic matching whenever a device breaks down or needs to be replaced.
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Patent
Method for developing a multi-agent system and multi-agent system
Armando Walter Colombo,Joao Marco Mendes,Paulo Leitão +2 more
- 13 Oct 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for developing a multi-agent system and to a multiagent system, such as an automation and/or production system, comprising software and or hardware components, the resources and functions of said components being represented and controlled through software agents, wherein each software agent has the capability of achieving goals through interaction with the environment and with other agents.
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Process optimization of service-oriented automation devices based on Petri nets
J. Marco Mendes,Paulo Leitão,Francisco Restivo,Armando Walter Colombo +3 more
- 13 Jul 2010
TL;DR: A novel method for the specification and selection of criteria-weighted operation modes for the orchestration of services in industrial automation using Petri nets, which permits the dynamic optimization of processes in real-time, considering available parameters from devices and other resources.