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

by Marik, Vladimir; Brennan, Robert W.; Pechoucek, Michal

• ISBN13: 9783540282372
• ISBN10: 3540282378
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-16
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2005. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical and methodological issues, algorithms and technologies, implementation and validation aspects, applications, and supply chain management.

Table of Contents

Invited Papers
Experience with Holonic and Agent-Based Control Systems and Their Adoption by Industry	1	(10)
Kenwood H. Hall
Raymond J. Staron
Pavel Vrba
Fundamental Insights into Holonic Systems Design	11	(12)
Paul Valckenaers
Hendrik Van Brussel
A 3D Visualization and Simulation Framework for Intelligent Physical Agents	23	(16)
Jose L. Martinez Lastra
Enrique Lopez Torres
Armando W. Colombo
Theoretical and Methodological Issues
MAS Methodology for HMS	39	(11)
Adriana Giret
Vicente Botti
Soledad Valero
Probabilistic Holons for Efficient Agent-Based Data Mining and Simulation	50	(14)
Arndt Schwaiger
Bjorn Stahmer
An Information-Based Agent	64	(12)
John Debenham
Algorithms and Technologies
Designing Communication Protocols for Holonic Control Devices Using Elementary Nets	76	(11)
James Brusey
Duncan McFarlane
A Proposal of Multi-agent Negotiation Mechanism Based on Dynamic Market Concept for Pareto Optimal Solution	87	(12)
Toshiya Kaihara
Susumu Fujii
Integrating Transportation Ontologies Using Semantic Web Languages	99	(12)
Marek Obitko
Vladimir Marik
Implementation and Validation Aspects
A Strategy to Implement and Validate Industrial Applications of Holonic Systems	111	(10)
Francisco P. Maturana
Raymond J. Staron
Pavel Tichy
Petr Slechta
Pavel Vrba
Experimental Validation of ADACOR Holonic Control System	121	(12)
Paulo Leitao
Francisco Restivo
A Proxy Design Pattern to Support Real-Time Distributed Control System Benchmarking	133	(11)
Karthik Soundararajan
Robert W. Brennan
Applications
Information Access and Control Operations in Multi-agent System Based Process Automation	144	(10)
Ilkka Seilonen
Teppo Pirttioja
Antti Pakonen
Pekka Appelqvist
Aarne Halme
Kari Koskinen
An Initial Automation Object Repository for OOONEIDA	154	(11)
Robert W. Brennan
Towards Engineering Methods for Reconfiguration of Distributed Real-Time Control Systems Based on the Reference Model of IEC 61499	165	(11)
Thomas Strasser
Alois Zoitl
Franz Auinger
Christoph Sunder
Using Radio Frequency Identification in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control Systems	176	(12)
Pavel Vrba
Filip Macurek
Vladimir Marik
Resolving Scheduling Issues of the London Underground Using a Multi-agent System	188	(9)
Rajveer Basra
Kevin Lu
George Rzevski
Petr Skobelev
KARMEN: Multi-agent Monitoring and Notification for Complex Processes	197	(10)
Larry Bunch
Maggie Breedy
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Marco Carvalho
Niranjan Suri
Simulation of Underwater Surveillance by a Team of Autonomous Robots	207	(14)
Milan Rollo
Petr Novak
Pavel Jisl
Supply Chain Management
A Reference-Model for Holonic Supply Chain Management	221	(12)
Richard Peters
Hermann Tobben
Polymorphic Agent Clusters -- The Concept to Design Multi-agent Environments Supporting Business Activities	233	(13)
Waldemar Wieczerzycki
Configuration of Dynamic SME Supply Chains Based on Ontologies	246	(11)
Eva Blomqvist
Tatiana Levashova
Annika Ohgren
Kurt Sandkuhl
Alexander Smirnov
Vladimir Tarassov
Experiments Toward a Practical Implementation of an Intelligent Kanban System	257	(12)
James Z.M. Zhang
James Brusey
Robert B. Johnston
Author Index	269