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Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems

6th International Conference, HoloMAS 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-28, 2013, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8062)

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

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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Talks

    1. Review of Trends and Challenges in Smart Grids: An Automation Point of View

      • Thomas Strasser, Filip Andrén, Munir Merdan, Alexander Prostejovsky
      Pages 1-12
    2. Actors, Holonic Enterprises, Ontologies and Multi-agent Technology

      • Vladimir A. Vittikh, Vladimir B. Larukhin, Alexander V. Tsarev
      Pages 13-24
  3. MAS in Automation and Manufacturing

    1. Phase Agents and Dynamic Routing for Batch Process Automation

      • Wilfried Lepuschitz, Benjamin Groessing, Emilian Axinia, Munir Merdan
      Pages 37-48
    2. Production Plan-Driven Flexible Assembly Automation Architecture

      • Alois Zoitl, Gerd Kainz, Nadine Keddis
      Pages 49-58
    3. Structural Self-organized Holonic Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems

      • José Barbosa, Paulo Leitão, Emmanuel Adam, Damien Trentesaux
      Pages 59-70
    4. Deployment of Multiagent Mechatronic Systems

      • Luis Ribeiro, José Barata
      Pages 71-82
    5. Agent-Based Control of Operational Conditions for Smart Factories: The Peak Load Management Scenario

      • Anna Florea, Juha Lauttamus, Corina Postelnicu, Jose L. Martinez Lastra
      Pages 83-94
    6. IceHMS, a Middleware for Distributed Control of Manufacturing Systems

      • Olivier Roulet-Dubonnet, Morten Lind, Amund Skavhaug
      Pages 95-105
  4. Design, Simulation and Validation

    1. A Virtual Design Engineering Environment for Control System Design and Validation

      • Francisco P. Maturana, Maulik Kalolia, Polo Paredes
      Pages 118-127
    2. Towards an Ontology for Small Series Production

      • Udo Inden, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Lars Mönch, Pavel Vrba
      Pages 128-139
    3. Ontological Extension of PROSA for Manufacturing Network Formation

      • Guiovanni D. Jules, Mozafar Saadat, Salman Saeidlou
      Pages 140-151
  5. MAS in Transportation Systems

    1. Traffic Radar: A Holonic Traffic Coordination System Using PROSA++ and D-MAS

      • Johan Philips, Bart Saint Germain, Jan Van Belle, Paul Valckenaers
      Pages 163-174
    2. A Multi-Agent System for Modelling Urban Transport Infrastructure Using Intelligent Traffic Forecasts

      • Abdallah Namoun, César A. Marín, Bart Saint Germain, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Johan Philips
      Pages 175-186
  6. Industrial Applications

    1. Rationales of Holonic Manufacturing Systems in Leather Industry

      • Sergiu-Adrian Guţă, Ioan Dumitrache, Duncan McFarlane, Tariq Masood
      Pages 199-211
    2. Adaptive Multi-Agent System for a Washing Machine Production Line

      • Nelson Rodrigues, Arnaldo Pereira, Paulo Leitão
      Pages 212-223

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

  • Department of Production Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Jose L. Martinez Lastra

  • Smart Solutions Ltd., Samara, Russia

    Petr Skobelev

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems

  • Book Subtitle: 6th International Conference, HoloMAS 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-28, 2013, Proceedings

  • Editors: Vladimír Mařík, Jose L. Martinez Lastra, Petr Skobelev

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40090-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40089-6Published: 08 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40090-2Published: 21 August 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 318

  • Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Operations Management, Computer Applications

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