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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

Second International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-24, 2005, Proceedings

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Vladimír Mařík

    1. Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic

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  2. Robert Brennan

    1. Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  3. Michal Pěchouček

    1. Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague,  

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3593)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Invited Papers

    1. Experience with Holonic and Agent-Based Control Systems and Their Adoption by Industry

      • Kenwood H. Hall, Raymond J. Staron, Pavel Vrba
      Pages 1-10

    2. Fundamental Insights into Holonic Systems Design

      • Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel
      Pages 11-22

    3. A 3D Visualization and Simulation Framework for Intelligent Physical Agents

      • Jose L. Martinez Lastra, Enrique Lopez Torres, Armando W. Colombo
      Pages 23-38

  3. Theoretical and Methodological Issues

    1. MAS Methodology for HMS

      • Adriana Giret, Vicente Botti, Soledad Valero
      Pages 39-49

    2. Probabilistic Holons for Efficient Agent-Based Data Mining and Simulation

      • Arndt Schwaiger, Björn Stahmer
      Pages 50-63

    3. An Information-Based Agent

      • John Debenham
      Pages 64-75

  5. Implementation and Validation Aspects

    1. A Strategy to Implement and Validate Industrial Applications of Holonic Systems

      • Francisco P. Maturana, Raymond J. Staron, Pavel Tichý, Petr Šlechta, Pavel Vrba
      Pages 111-120

    2. Experimental Validation of ADACOR Holonic Control System

      • Paulo Leitão, Francisco Restivo
      Pages 121-132

    3. A Proxy Design Pattern to Support Real-Time Distributed Control System Benchmarking

      • K. Soundararajan, R. W. Brennan
      Pages 133-143

  6. Applications

    1. Information Access and Control Operations in Multi-agent System Based Process Automation

      • Ilkka Seilonen, Teppo Pirttioja, Antti Pakonen, Pekka Appelqvist, Aarne Halme, Kari Koskinen
      Pages 144-153

    2. An Initial Automation Object Repository for OOONEIDA

      • R. W. Brennan
      Pages 154-164

    3. Towards Engineering Methods for Reconfiguration of Distributed Real-Time Control Systems Based on the Reference Model of IEC 61499

      • Thomas Strasser, Alois Zoitl, Franz Auinger, Christoph Sünder
      Pages 165-175

    4. Using Radio Frequency Identification in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control Systems

      • Pavel Vrba, Filip Macůrek, Vladimír Mařík
      Pages 176-187

    5. Resolving Scheduling Issues of the London Underground Using a Multi-agent System

      • Rajveer Basra, Kevin Lü, George Rzevski, Petr Skobelev
      Pages 188-196

    6. KARMEN: Multi-agent Monitoring and Notification for Complex Processes

      • Larry Bunch, Maggie Breedy, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Marco Carvalho, Niranjan Suri
      Pages 197-206

    7. Simulation of Underwater Surveillance by a Team of Autonomous Robots

      • Milan Rollo, Petr Novák, Pavel Jisl
      Pages 207-220
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The challenge faced in today’s manufacturing and business environments is the question of how to satisfy increasingly stringent customer requirements while managing growing system complexity. For example, customers expect high-quality, customizable, low-cost products that can be delivered quickly. The systems that deliver these expectations are by nature distributed, concurrent, and stochastic, and, as a result, increasingly difficult to manage. Unfortunately, the traditional hierarchical, strictly centralized approach to control used in these domains is characteristically inflexible, fragile, and difficult to maintain. These shortcomings have led to the development of a new class of manufacturing and supply-chain decision-making approaches in recent years. Solutions based on these approaches usually explore a set of highly distributed decision-making units that are capable of autonomous operations while cooperating interactively to resolve larger problems. The units, referred to as agents in classical computer science and software engineering, or holons if physically integrated with the manufacturing hardware, interact by exchanging information. These units are motivated by arriving at local solutions as well as collaborating and sharing resources and goals in solving the overall problem in question collectively.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

  • Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Robert Brennan

  • Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague,  

    Michal Pěchouček

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