Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction and Motivation

   1. Holonic Rationale and Self-organization on Design of Complex Evolvable Systems

      • Paulo Leitão

      Pages 1-12

   2. Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems

      • J. Marco Mendes, Paulo Leitão, Francisco Restivo, Armando W. Colombo

      Pages 13-24

   3. Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation

      • Ivanka Terzic, Alois Zoitl, Martijn Rooker, Thomas Strasser, Pavel Vrba, Vladimir Mařík

      Pages 25-36

3. Knowledge-Centered Approaches

   1. An Organizational Knowledge Ontology for Automotive Supply Chains

      • Bernd Hellingrath, Markus Witthaut, Carsten Böhle, Stephan Brügger

      Pages 37-46

   2. Semantic Extension of Agent-Based Control: The Packing Cell Case Study

      • Pavel Vrba, Miloslav Radakovič, Marek Obitko, Vladimír Mařík

      Pages 47-60

   3. Product Design Network Self-contextualization: Enterprise Knowledge-Based Approach and Agent-Based Technological Framework

      • Tatiana Levashova, Kurt Sandkuhl, Nikolay Shilov, Alexander Smirnov, Vladimir Tarasov

      Pages 61-71

4. Selected Theoretical Aspects

   1. Collaboration of Metaheuristic Algorithms through a Multi-Agent System

      • Richard Malek

      Pages 72-81

   2. Functional Integrity of Multi-agent Computational System Supported by Component-Based Implementation

      • Kamil Piętak, Adam Woś, Aleksander Byrski, Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki

      Pages 82-91

   3. On the Empirical Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Framework for Automated Negotiation

      • Fernando Lopes, A. Q. Novais, Helder Coelho

      Pages 92-101

5. MAS Scheduling and Simulation

   1. A Decentralized Scheduling Policy for a Dynamically Reconfigurable Production System

      • Stefano Giordani, Marin Lujak, Francesco Martinelli

      Pages 102-113

   2. A Study on Real-Virtual Interaction Method for Production Scheduling Using Model Plant

      • Yi Qian, Nobutada Fujii, Toshiya Kaihara

      Pages 114-123

   3. Using an Agent-Supported Simulation Environment for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

      • Nancy Ruiz, Adriana Giret, Vicente Botti

      Pages 124-134

   4. A Study on Real-Time Scheduling for Holonic Manufacturing Systems – Determination of Utility Values Based on Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

      • Koji Iwamura, Norihisa Mayumi, Yoshitaka Tanimizu, Nobuhiro Sugimura

      Pages 135-144

6. MAS Control

   1. An Open-Control Concept for a Holonic Multiagent System

      • Emmanuel Adam, Thierry Berger, Yves Sallez, Damien Trentesaux

      Pages 145-154

   2. Plan, Commit, Execute Protocol in Multi-agent Systems

      • Petr Kadera, Pavel Tichy

      Pages 155-164

   3. Distributed Sensing and Control Architecture for Automotive Factory Automation

      • Ningxu Cai, Robert W. Brennan

      Pages 165-174

   4. MAS-Based Cooperative Control for Biotechnological Process-A Case Study

      • Dariusz Choinski, Mieczyslaw Metzger, Witold Nocon

      Pages 175-182

   5. Design and Implementation of LabVIEW-Based IEC61499 Compliant Device

      • Grzegorz Polaków, Mieczyslaw Metzger

      Pages 183-192

7. Holonic Systems for Manufacturing

   1. Holonic-Based Environment for Solving Transportation Problems

      • Michał Gołacki, Jarosław Koźlak, Małgorzata Żabińska

      Pages 193-202

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.

• HCI
• Simulation
• agent-based control
• agents
• automotive supply chain
• evolvable systems
• metaheuristic
• modeling
• multi agent systems
• multi-agent system
• ontology
• robot
• self organization
• sensor networks
• simulaton

• Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, 16627 Praha 6, Czech Republic and Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague, Prague 5,, Czech Republic

  Vladimír Mařík

• PROFACTOR GmbH, Steyr-Gleink, Austria

  Thomas Strasser

• Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

  Alois Zoitl

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