Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing Third Internat
The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing rapidly, as is the community around this R&D topic. Despite the fact that real-life practical implementations of such systems remain surprisingly rare, the leaders in different branches of
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Vladimír Maˇrík Valeriy Vyatkin Armando W. Colombo (Eds.)
Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing Third International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007 Regensburg, Germany, September 3-5, 2007 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Vladimír Maˇrík Czech Technical University Department of Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering 16627 Praha 6, Czech Republic and Rockwell Automation Research Center Pekaˇrská 10a/695, 15500 Prague 5, Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected] Valeriy Vyatkin The University of Auckland Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Auckland Mail Centre, Private bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected] Armando W. Colombo Schneider Electric GmbH Steinheimer Str. 117, 63500 Seligenstadt, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007933411
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, J.1, D.2, I.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing rapidly, as is the community around this R&D topic. Despite the fact that real-life practical implementations of such systems remain surprisingly rare, the leaders in different branches of industry feel that the holonic and agent-based systems represent the only way to manage and control very complex, highly distributed systems in the future. The relevant R&D gains more and more support from both industry as well as academic sources. Quite naturally, the number of scientific events aimed at the subject field is also growing rapidly. We can see new lines of conferences like INDIN, while we can observe a strong focus of the already well-established conferences, like INCOM or ETFA, being shifted toward holonic and agent-based manufacturing system
