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At the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution, the
use of software agents, service-oriented architectures and related
technologies as primary constructs of Cyber-Physical Industrial
systems is of high relevance. Current developments in this area
have been consistently supported by an active community of
researchers and practitioners in the past decades. Most of the
main actors in the area are members of the IEEE IES Technical
Community on Industrial Agents (TCIA). This work analyzes
the evolution of this research and development network. It does
so by identifying and investigating specialized sub-communities
within the larger umbrella of Industrial Agents, their research
interests and directions. In total of 7430 documents from 8045
authors were collected from the Google Scholar profiles of the
TCIA members. The analysis reveals different research trends,
transitions over the years and the emergence of application and
domain foci, that are critically discussed.
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Ribeiro, Luís; Karnouskos, Stamatis; Leitão, Paulo; Strasser, Thomas I. (2017). A community analysis of the IEEE IES industrial agents technical committee. In 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Beijing. p. 6139-6144. ISBN 978-1-5386-1127-2