Leitão, PauloColombo, Armando W.2010-01-272010-01-272005Leitão, Paulo; Colombo, Armando W. (2005). An approach towards the development life-cycle of agent-based production control applications. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA’05). Catania, Italy. p. 633-640. ISBN: 0-7803-9402-X0-7803-9402-Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/1527Indexado ISIThis paper discusses a new approach to the development life-cycle of agent-based production control applications, from the design to the operation, based in a catalogue of High-level Petri nets. The High-level Petri net-based approach facilitates the conception, definition and formal specification of an "encapsulation process" in industrial production systems. The catalogue includes elements for the identification of manufacturing components, the development of agent-based control units, the formal validation ofthe models and theformal specification of complete collaborative automation scenarios.engManufacturing control systemsPetri netsHolonic manufacturing systemsconference object