Artificial immune intelligent maintenance system: diagnostic agents

The Artificial Immune Intelligent Maintenance System (AI2MS) is an architecture proposal for a Distributed Intelligent Maintenance System (IMS) using Artificial Immune Systems concepts. Equipment has its own embedded AIS, performing a local diagnosis. This proposal is modeled and implemented using multi-agent systems, where every autonomous IMS is mapped to a set of local agents, while the communication and decision process between IMSs are mapped to global agents. This paper describes the diagnostic agents implementation of the AI2MS and present some preliminary results deriving from the application of the proposed approach to a case study.