The last years have shown the great importance of monitoring techniques applied to corros control in process industries. These techniques depend strongly on systems for data acquisition, c treatment analysis and automatic control. This monitoring task can be improved by the application modern computer based solutions as intelligent systems. This paper presents the foundation of Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent System applied to corrosion control as well as presents the researches and developments of a community of expert systems (agents) for corrosion control in a crude unit environment of a petroleum refinery. The m difference between this approach and the control based on only one expert system is that in a multi-agent system several expert systems are developed each ore to take care of a small part of the process. It allows the user to develop a better control of these process parts. The use of multi-agent systems also allow some
independence of proprietary communication protocols.
Keywords: Corrosion Control, Monitoring, Distriblked Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems