Leitão, PauloKarnouskos, Stamatis2018-02-192018-03-282018-01-192018-03-282015Leitão, Paulo; Karnouskos, Stamatis (2015). A survey on factors that impact industrial agent acceptance. In Industrial Agents: Emerging Applications of Software Agents in Industry. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 401-429. ISBN 978-0-12-800341-1978-0-12-800341-1http://hdl.handle.net/10198/2045Although the agent technology has been with us some decades now, its acceptance in industry is still limited. As such, we conducted a survey and investigated the main factors that impact it. Thus, key industrial agent aspects are investigated-i.e., design, technology, intelligence/algorithms, standardization, hardware, challenges, applications, and cost. The results are analyzed and discussed, confirming that a decision on agent utilization in productive industrial systems is a complex undertaking, and there are still many issues to be resolved in order to lead to a wider acceptance of industrial agents.engIndustrial agent acceptanceIndustrial agent applicationsIndustrial agent challengesIndustrial agent costIndustrial agentsSurveybook part10.1016/B978-0-12-800341-1.00022-X