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4th International Conference on |
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Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems
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August 31 - September 2, 2009, Linz, Austria
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in conjunction with DEXA 2009 Events |
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Holonic and multi-agent systems
provide a novel paradigm for managing, modelling and supporting complex systems.
This concept has proved to be successful in number of industrial domains such as
manufacturing, real-time control, supply chain management, resource allocation and
production planning/scheduling, air traffic.
The conference aims
to bring together researchers active in the area of holonic and
multi-agent systems together with key engineers and industrial
decision makers to share their views and experience in design, development and applying holonic and multi-agent
systems for industrial problems.
The conference will be held in technical cooperation with the OOONEIDA Group and EU Project I*PROMS and the technical co-sponsorship of the TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society.
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SUGGESTED TOPICS (but not limited to)
- Theoretical backgrounds behind holonic/agent concepts
- Industrial applications of holonic and multi-agent systems (case-studies are specially appreciated)
- Specification of holonic and agent-based architectures and design methodologies
- Differences and similarities between the concept of holons and agents
- Communication principles and standards
- Virtual organisations & holonic factories - reconfigurable factories
- Agent-based system integration
- Modelling and simulation tools
- Reconfiguration tasks, coalition formation, knowledge ontologies
- Novel application areas (health-care, environmental protection, government, humanitarian missions)
- Visions and future trends of holonic and multi-agent systems
- Standardization issues, security issues, industrial needs
- Obstacles and barriers to industrial applicability
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PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS
Authors are invited to submit research
contributions or critiques of practical experience. Papers (in English) should not exceed 10 pages in Springer Verlag format.
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically to the conference web site.
All accepted conference papers will be published in the conference proceedings in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series by Springer Verlag. Extended/modified versions of the best papers will be included in the Special Issue "Multi-agent and Holonic Techniques for Manufacturing Systems: Technologies and Applications" of the International Journal of Production Research.
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IMPORTANT DATES
| 1. Submission deadline: |
March 10, 2009 (extended) |
| 2. Acceptance notice: |
April 15, 2009 |
| 3. Camera-ready copies: |
May 15, 2009 |
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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
| Vladimir Marik |
Czech Technical University in Prague/Rockwell Automation, CZ |
| Monique Calisti |
Whitestein Technologies, CH
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| Thomas Strasser |
Profactor, A
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
| Jose Barata | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, P |
| Vicente Botti | Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, SP |
| Jeff Bradshaw | University of West Florida, USA |
| Robert W. Brennan | University of Calgary, CAN |
| Birgit Burmeister | Daimler AG, D |
| Luis Camarinha-Matos | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, P |
| Marco Colla | SUPSI/ICIMSI, CH |
| Armando W. Colombo | Schneider Electric, D |
| Luca Ferrarini | Politecnico di Milano, I |
| Motohisa Funabashi | Hitachi, JPN |
| Dominic Greenwood | Whitestein Technologies, CH |
| William Gruver | Simon Fraser University, CAN |
| Kenneth Hall | Rockwell Automation, USA |
| Agirre Ibarbia | Fundacion Fatronik, SP |
| Toshiya Kaihara | Kobe University, JPN |
| Kari Koskinnen | Helsinki University of Technology, FIN |
| Dilip Kotak | National Research Council of Canada, CAN |
| Jose L. M. Lastra | Tampere University of Technology, FIN |
| Paulo Leitao | Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, P |
| Francisco Maturana | Rockwell Automation, USA |
| Duncan McFarlane | Cambridge University, UK |
| Michal Pechoucek | Czech Technical University, CZ |
| Duc Pham | University of Cardiff, UK |
| Milan Rollo | Czech Technical University, CZ |
| Martijn Rooker | Profactor, A |
| Stuart Rubin | SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, USA |
| Ilkka Seilonen | Helsinki University of Technology, FIN |
| Leonid Sheremetov | Mexican Oil Institute, MEX |
| Alexander Smirnov | SPIIRAS, RUS |
| Thomas Strasser | Profactor, A |
| Paul Valckenaers | Catholic University Leuven, B |
| Antonio Valentini | OOONEIDA, B |
| Tomas Vlcek | CertiCon, CZ |
| Pavel Vrba | Rockwell Automation, CZ |
| Valeriy Vyatkin | University of Auckland, NZ |
| Alois Zoitl | Vienna University of Technology, A |
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