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• Invited Talks.- The Past, Present, and Future of IEC 61499.- Can Multi-Agents Wake Us from IC Design Productivity Nightmare?.- Motivation.- From Intelligent Agents to Intelligent Beings.- Multi-agent Reflection in Autonomic Systems.- Auctions with Arbitrary Deals.- Architectures and Services.- Service Composition in Holonic Multiagent Systems: Model-Driven Choreography and Orchestration.- Flexible Roles in a Holonic Multi-Agent System.- Agent-Based Inter-Organizational Workflow Management System.- Co-operative Co-evolutionary System for Solving Dynamic VRPTW Problems with Crisis Situations.- Anonymity Architecture for Mobile Agent Systems.- SitCom - Development Platform for Multimodal Perceptual Services.- New Technologies and Techniques.- An Ontology-Based Reconfiguration Agent for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems.- Methods to Observe the Clustering of Agents Within a Multi-Agent System.- Distributed Director Facilitator in a Multiagent Platform for Networked Embedded Controllers.- Agent Methods for Network Intrusion Detection and Response.- Detecting Intrusions in Agent System by Means of Exception Handling.- Smart Caching Algorithm for Software Agents Based on Re-execution Probability.- Planning and Scheduling.- Metaheuristic Agent Teams for Job Shop Scheduling Problems.- Distributed Production Scheduling Using Federated Agent Architecture.- A Study on Real-Time Scheduling for Holonic Manufacturing Systems - Simulation for Estimation of Future Status by Individual Holons.- Adaptive Planning for Supply Chain Networks.- An Agent Based Modelling Approach for Stochastic Planning Parameters.- Design Issues.- A Holonic Metamodel for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design.- Using Adaptable Design to Classify Interactions Within a Distributed Control Architecture.- Application of the Holonic Approach in Distributed Control Systems Designing.- Design and Implementation of Adaptive Agents for Complex Manufacturing Systems.- Dynamic Configuration and Management of e-Supply Chains Based on Internet Public Registries Visited by Clusters of Software Agents.- Applications.- A Multiagent Control System for Shop Floor Assembly.- MagentaToolkit: A Set of Multi-agent Tools for Developing Adaptive Real-Time Applications.- On Practical Implementation of Holonic Control Principles in Baggage Handling Systems Using IEC 61499.- Zero Downtime Reconfiguration of Distributed Automation Systems: The ?CEDAC Approach.- Holonic Multiagent-Based System for Distributed Control of Semi-industrial Pilot Plants.- Collision Avoidance Algorithms: Multi-agent Approach.- Creating Contract Templates for Car Insurance Using Multi-agent Based Text Understanding and Clustering.- Multi-agent-Based Diagnostics of Automotive Electronic Systems.- PIHolS Workshop.- Performance in Industrial Holonic Systems.- Towards Industrial Strength Business Performance Management.- Ontology-Based Competence Management for Team Configuration.- Information Agents Handling Semantic Data as an Extension to Process Monitoring Systems.- Applications of Virtual Reality in Design and Simulation of Holonic Manufacturing Systems: A Demonstration in Die-Casting Industry.- Resilience in the Face of Disaster: Accounting for Varying Disaster Magnitudes, Resource Topologies, and (Sub)Population Distributions in the PLAN C Emergency Planning Tool.- Holonic Simulation of a Design System for Performance Analysis.
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems held in September 2007. The 39 full papers were selected from among 63 submissions. They are organized into topical sections covering theoretical and methodological issues, algorithms and technologies, implementation and validation, applications, and supply chain management.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2003.The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on holonic manufacturing systems-device control, foundations and platforms, sheduling and resource allocation, simulation and integration, multi-agent systems, and applications.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2005. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical and methodological issues, algorithms and technologies, implementation and validation aspects, applications, and supply chain management.
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• Invited Talks. Review of Trends and Challenges in Smart Grids: An Automation Point of View / Thomas Strasser [and others]
• Actors, Holonic Enterprises, Ontologies and Multi-agent Technology / Vladimir A. Vittikh, Vladimir B. Larukhin, Alexander V. Tsarev
• MAS in Automation and Manufacturing. Advanced Shop-Floor Scheduling with Genetic Algorithm for Combined Horizon Optimization in Holonic Manufacturing Systems / Cristina Morariu, Octavian Morariu, Theodor Borangiu
• Phase Agents and Dynamic Routing for Batch Process Automation / Wilfried Lepuschitz [and others]
• Production Plan-Driven Flexible Assembly Automation Architecture / Alois Zoitl, Gerd Kainz, Nadine Keddis
• Structural Self-organized Holonic Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems / José Barbosa [and others]
• Deployment of Multiagent Mechatronic Systems / Luis Ribeiro, José Barata
• Agent-Based Control of Operational Conditions for Smart Factories: The Peak Load Management Scenario / Anna Florea [and others]
• IceHMS, a Middleware for Distributed Control of Manufacturing Systems / Olivier Roulet-Dubonnet, Morten Lind, Amund Skavhaug
• Formal Study of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: A High Level Petri Nets Based Approach / Laid Kahloul, Karim Djouani, Allaoua Chaoui.

• Design, Simulation and Validation. A Virtual Design Engineering Environment for Control System Design and Validation / Francisco P. Maturana, Maulik Kalolia, Polo Paredes
• Towards an Ontology for Small Series Production / Udo Inden [and others]
• Ontological Extension of PROSA for Manufacturing Network Formation / Guiovanni D. Jules, Mozafar Saadat, Salman Saeidlou
• A Method and Application to Simulate and Validate Manufacturing Control Systems Based on a Discrete Manufacturing Simulation Platform / Olivier Roulet-Dubonnet, Per Aage Nyen
• MAS in Transportation Systems. Traffic Radar: A Holonic Traffic Coordination System Using PROSA++ and D-MAS / Johan Philips [and others]
• A Multi-Agent System for Modelling Urban Transport Infrastructure Using Intelligent Traffic Forecasts / Abdallah Namoun [and others]
• The Art of Negotiation: Developing Efficient Agent-Based Algorithms for Solving Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows / Petr Kalina, Jiří Vokřínek, Vladimír Mařík.

• Industrial Applications. Rationales of Holonic Manufacturing Systems in Leather Industry / Sergiu-Adrian Guţă [and others]
• Adaptive Multi-Agent System for a Washing Machine Production Line / Nelson Rodrigues, Arnaldo Pereira, Paulo Leitão
• Product Intelligence in Warehouse Management: A Case Study / Vaggelis Giannikas [and others]
• BarterCell: An Agent-Based Bartering Service for Users of Pocket Computing Devices / Sameh Abdalla [and others]
• Negotiating Hour-Wise Tariffs in Multi-Agent Electricity Markets / Fernando Lopes, Hugo Algarvio, Helder Coelho
• New Trends. Context-Aware Self-configuration of Flexible Supply Networks / Alexander Smirnov [and others]
• Distributed Resource Search in Self-organising Networks / Muntasir Al-Asfoor, Maria Fasli
• The 'Two-Hop Principle': Stability of MAS in Communications Networks / John Debenham, Ante Prodan
• Agent Interaction Protocols in Support of Cloud Services Composition / Djamel Benmerzoug, Mohamed Gharzouli, Mounira Zerari
• Big Data Challenges in Industrial Automation / Marek Obitko, Václav Jirkovský, Jan Bezdíček.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2013, in conjunction with DEXA 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: MAS in automation and manufacturing; design, simulation and validation; MAS in transportation systems; industrial applications; and new trends.

• and Motivation.- Holonic Rationale and Self-organization on Design of Complex Evolvable Systems.- Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems.- Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation.- Knowledge-Centered Approaches.- An Organizational Knowledge Ontology for Automotive Supply Chains.- Semantic Extension of Agent-Based Control: The Packing Cell Case Study.- Product Design Network Self-contextualization: Enterprise Knowledge-Based Approach and Agent-Based Technological Framework.- Selected Theoretical Aspects.- Collaboration of Metaheuristic Algorithms through a Multi-Agent System.- Functional Integrity of Multi-agent Computational System Supported by Component-Based Implementation.- On the Empirical Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Framework for Automated Negotiation.- MAS Scheduling and Simulation.- A Decentralized Scheduling Policy for a Dynamically Reconfigurable Production System.- A Study on Real-Virtual Interaction Method for Production Scheduling Using Model Plant.- Using an Agent-Supported Simulation Environment for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems.- A Study on Real-Time Scheduling for Holonic Manufacturing Systems - Determination of Utility Values Based on Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning.- MAS Control.- An Open-Control Concept for a Holonic Multiagent System.- Plan, Commit, Execute Protocol in Multi-agent Systems.- Distributed Sensing and Control Architecture for Automotive Factory Automation.- MAS-Based Cooperative Control for Biotechnological Process-A Case Study.- Design and Implementation of LabVIEW-Based IEC61499 Compliant Device.- Holonic Systems for Manufacturing.- Holonic-Based Environment for Solving Transportation Problems.- Holonic Manufacturing Paint Shop.- Development of a Holonic Free-Roaming AGV System for Part Manufacturing.- Safety Discrete Event Models for Holonic Cyclic Manufacturing Systems.- A Holonic Chain Conveyor Control System: An Application.- MAS and Holonic Applications.- A Multiagent System for Self-organisation of an 802.11 Mesh Network.- Mobility Model for Tactical Networks.- Holonic Modelling of Large Scale Geographic Environments.- Holonic Models for Traffic Control Systems.- A Multi-Agent System for the Pay-As-You-GO (PAYGO) Social Security Scheme.- Contract Monitoring in Agent-Based Systems: Case Study.- A Multi-agent Scheduler for Rent-a-Car Companies.- A Framework for Multi Robot Guidance Control.
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The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing very rapidly. The community around this R&D topic is also growing fast - despite the fact that the real-life practical implementations of such systems are still surprisingly rare. H- ever, the managers in different branches of industry feel that the holonic and agent-based systems represent the only way of managing and controlling very c- plex, highly distributed systems exploring vast volumes of accumulated knowledge. The relevant research and development activities gain more and more visible support from both industry as well as public sectors. Quite naturally, the number of scientific events aimed at the subject field is also growing rapidly. We see new lines of conf- ences like INDIN, we observe a strong focus of the already well-established conferences, e. g. , INCOM or ETFA, being shifted toward holonic and agent-based manufacturing systems. We see an increased interest of the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society, especially its Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems which leverages the experience gathered by the members of the former Ho- nic Manufacuting Systems (HMS) consortium. We see a clear orientation of the IEEE SMC Transactions, part C, toward applications of agent-oriented solutions. The same is true of the International Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). This is a really good sign of the increasing importance of the field.
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• Invited Talks.- The Past, Present, and Future of IEC 61499.- Can Multi-Agents Wake Us from IC Design Productivity Nightmare?.- Motivation.- From Intelligent Agents to Intelligent Beings.- Multi-agent Reflection in Autonomic Systems.- Auctions with Arbitrary Deals.- Architectures and Services.- Service Composition in Holonic Multiagent Systems: Model-Driven Choreography and Orchestration.- Flexible Roles in a Holonic Multi-Agent System.- Agent-Based Inter-Organizational Workflow Management System.- Co-operative Co-evolutionary System for Solving Dynamic VRPTW Problems with Crisis Situations.- Anonymity Architecture for Mobile Agent Systems.- SitCom - Development Platform for Multimodal Perceptual Services.- New Technologies and Techniques.- An Ontology-Based Reconfiguration Agent for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems.- Methods to Observe the Clustering of Agents Within a Multi-Agent System.- Distributed Director Facilitator in a Multiagent Platform for Networked Embedded Controllers.- Agent Methods for Network Intrusion Detection and Response.- Detecting Intrusions in Agent System by Means of Exception Handling.- Smart Caching Algorithm for Software Agents Based on Re-execution Probability.- Planning and Scheduling.- Metaheuristic Agent Teams for Job Shop Scheduling Problems.- Distributed Production Scheduling Using Federated Agent Architecture.- A Study on Real-Time Scheduling for Holonic Manufacturing Systems - Simulation for Estimation of Future Status by Individual Holons.- Adaptive Planning for Supply Chain Networks.- An Agent Based Modelling Approach for Stochastic Planning Parameters.- Design Issues.- A Holonic Metamodel for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design.- Using Adaptable Design to Classify Interactions Within a Distributed Control Architecture.- Application of the Holonic Approach in Distributed Control Systems Designing.- Design and Implementation of Adaptive Agents for Complex Manufacturing Systems.- Dynamic Configuration and Management of e-Supply Chains Based on Internet Public Registries Visited by Clusters of Software Agents.- Applications.- A Multiagent Control System for Shop Floor Assembly.- MagentaToolkit: A Set of Multi-agent Tools for Developing Adaptive Real-Time Applications.- On Practical Implementation of Holonic Control Principles in Baggage Handling Systems Using IEC 61499.- Zero Downtime Reconfiguration of Distributed Automation Systems: The ?CEDAC Approach.- Holonic Multiagent-Based System for Distributed Control of Semi-industrial Pilot Plants.- Collision Avoidance Algorithms: Multi-agent Approach.- Creating Contract Templates for Car Insurance Using Multi-agent Based Text Understanding and Clustering.- Multi-agent-Based Diagnostics of Automotive Electronic Systems.- PIHolS Workshop.- Performance in Industrial Holonic Systems.- Towards Industrial Strength Business Performance Management.- Ontology-Based Competence Management for Team Configuration.- Information Agents Handling Semantic Data as an Extension to Process Monitoring Systems.- Applications of Virtual Reality in Design and Simulation of Holonic Manufacturing Systems: A Demonstration in Die-Casting Industry.- Resilience in the Face of Disaster: Accounting for Varying Disaster Magnitudes, Resource Topologies, and (Sub)Population Distributions in the PLAN C Emergency Planning Tool.- Holonic Simulation of a Design System for Performance Analysis.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems held in September 2007. The 39 full papers were selected from among 63 submissions. They are organized into topical sections covering theoretical and methodological issues, algorithms and technologies, implementation and validation, applications, and supply chain management.
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This book presents a modern and attractive approach to computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) by stressing the crucial role of information management aspects. The 31 contributions contained constitute the final report on the EC Project TEMPUS No. 2609 aimed at establishing a new curriculum and regular education in the new field of information management in CIM at European universities. Much attention was paid to the style of writing and coverage of the important issues. Thus the book is particularly suited as a text for students and young scientists approaching CIM from different directions; at the same time, it is a comprehensive guide for industrial engineers in machine engineering, computer science, control engineering, artificial intelligence, production management, etc.
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