Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

Invited Papers.- Experience with Holonic and Agent-Based Control Systems and Their Adoption by Industry.- Fundamental Insights into Holonic Systems Design.- A 3D Visualization and Simulation Framework for Intelligent Physical Agents.- Theoretical and Methodological Issues.- MAS Methodology for HMS.- Probabilistic Holons for Efficient Agent-Based Data Mining and Simulation.- An Information-Based Agent.- Algorithms and Technologies.- Designing Communication Protocols for Holonic Control Devices Using Elementary Nets.- A Proposal of Multi-agent Negotiation Mechanism Based on Dynamic Market Concept for Pareto Optimal Solution.- Integrating Transportation Ontologies Using Semantic Web Languages.- Implementation and Validation Aspects.- A Strategy to Implement and Validate Industrial Applications of Holonic Systems.- Experimental Validation of ADACOR Holonic Control System.- A Proxy Design Pattern to Support Real-Time Distributed Control System Benchmarking.- Applications.- Information Access and Control Operations in Multi-agent System Based Process Automation.- An Initial Automation Object Repository for OOONEIDA.- Towards Engineering Methods for Reconfiguration of Distributed Real-Time Control Systems Based on the Reference Model of IEC 61499.- Using Radio Frequency Identification in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control Systems.- Resolving Scheduling Issues of the London Underground Using a Multi-agent System.- KARMEN: Multi-agent Monitoring and Notification for Complex Processes.- Simulation of Underwater Surveillance by a Team of Autonomous Robots.- Supply Chain Management.- A Reference-Model for Holonic Supply Chain Management.- Polymorphic Agent Clusters - The Concept to Design Multi-agent Environments Supporting Business Activities.- Configuration of Dynamic SME Supply Chains Based on Ontologies.- Experiments Toward a Practical Implementation of an Intelligent Kanban System.