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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2009, Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 2, 2009, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Vladimír Mařík

    1. 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

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  2. Thomas Strasser

    1. PROFACTOR GmbH, Steyr-Gleink, Austria

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  3. Alois Zoitl

    1. Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5696)

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

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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