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 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mařík, Vladimír (Editor), Brennan, Robert William (Editor), Pěchouček, Michal (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3593
• Subjects: Computer science.; Production management.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Computer-aided engineering.; Computers.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Computing Milieux.; Operations Management.; IT in Business.

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. T...

Table of Contents:

• 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.