Althought established as wide-ranging trends in information technologies (IT), some paradigms are not yet as pervasive, diversified, and integrated in real-time control systems - and especially in anthropocentric systems - as they could be. The paper examines three of them: a) holonic approach to manufacturing systems; b) agent-orientation (particularly, multi-agent systems); c) concurrent programming. After proposing a synergistic approach to real-time control, considering that multi-agent systems become a common means to design and implement holonic software systems, and that threads have a significant unused potential, the paper describes a generic agent architecture and some of its instances - as test applications. The conclusions highlight points where the approach seems positive as well as still open aspects (regarding the new mechanisms proposed).
Real-time contro holonic manufacturing, multi agent systems, concurrent programming
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