HoloMAS '09 2009 - 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems - HoloMAS '09

4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems - HoloMAS \'09


HoloMAS 2009



4th International Conference on

Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems

August 31 - September 2, 2009, Linz, Austria

http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS/2009/

in conjunction with DEXA 2009 events

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.



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

Modeling 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


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.



IMPORTANT DATES

1. Submission deadline: February 28,2009
2. Acceptance notice: April 15, 2009
3. Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2009