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3nd International Conference on |
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Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems
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September 3 - 5, 2007, Regensburg, Germany
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in conjunction with DEXA 2007 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 SMC 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
IMPORTANT: Special Session on Performance in Industrial Holonic Systems will also be held.
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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.
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IMPORTANT DATES
| 1. Submission deadline: |
March 12, 2007 (extended) |
| 2. Acceptance notice: |
April 15, 2007 |
| 3. Camera-ready copies: |
May 10, 2007 (changed) |
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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
| Vladimir Marik |
Czech Technical University in Prague/Rockwell Automation, CZ |
| Armando W. Colombo |
Schneider Electric, D
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| Valeriy Vyatkin |
University of Auckland, NZ
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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, Canada |
| Monique Calisti | Whitestein Technologies, CH |
| Luis Camarinha-Matos | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, P |
| Vadim Ermolaev | Zaporozhje State University, UKR |
| Kurt Fassl | Profactor, A |
| Klaus Fischer | DFKI GmbH, D |
| Martyn Fletcher | UK |
| Georg Frey | University of Kaiserslautern, D |
| Motohisa Funabashi | Hitachi, JPN |
| William Gruver | Simon Fraser University, CAN |
| Kenneth Hall | Rockwell Automation, USA |
| Toshiya Kaihara | Kobe University, JPN |
| Kari Koskinnen | Helsinki University of Technology, FIN |
| Dilip Kotak | Simon Fraser University, CAN |
| Jose L. M. Lastra | Tampere University of Technology, FIN |
| Francisco Maturana | Rockwell Automation, USA |
| Duncan McFarlane | Cambridge University, UK |
| Gerard Morel | CRAN, F |
| Michal Pechoucek | Czech Technical University, CZ |
| Gregory Provan | Cork College, Ireland |
| Milan Rollo | Czech Technical University, CZ |
| Leonid Sheremetov | Mexican Oil Institute, MEX |
| Alexander Smirnov | SPIIRAS, RUS |
| Thomas Strasser | Profactor, A |
| Shinsuke Tamura | Fukui University, JPN |
| Ambalavanar Tharumarajah | Buddy Co.Ltd, AUS |
| Paul Valckenaers | Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, B |
| Antonio Valentini | OOONEIDA, CAN |
| Hendrik Van Brussel | Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, B |
| Tomas Vlcek | Czech Technical University, CZ |
| Pavel Vrba | Rockwell Automation, CZ |
| Alois Zoitl | Vienna University of Technology, A |
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ACCOMPANYING EVENT
ECOSS-2: AI4VE ECOLEAD project is preparing Summer School on Virtual Enterprises, Collaborative Networks and Artificial Intelligence Tools for Support of their Activities which will be organized as a post-conference event of HoloMAS. It will take place in Prague in the premisses of Czech Technical University from Thursday 6.9. till Saturday 9.9.
Please, see the detailed program.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
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