Holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing : 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-agent Systems, HoloMAS 2009, Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 2, 2009 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2009, held in Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 2, 2009. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on introduction & motivation, knowledge-centered approaches, selected theoretical aspects, MAS scheduling & simulation, holonic systems for manufacturing, and MAS & holonic applications. Front Matter....Pages - Holonic Rationale and Self-organization on Design of Complex Evolvable Systems....Pages 1-12 Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems....Pages 13-24 Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation....Pages 25-36 An Organizational Knowledge Ontology for Automotive Supply Chains....Pages 37-46 Semantic Extension of Agent-Based Control: The Packing Cell Case Study....Pages 47-60 Product Design Network Self-contextualization: Enterprise Knowledge-Based Approach and Agent-Based Technological Framework....Pages 61-71 Collaboration of Metaheuristic Algorithms through a Multi-Agent System....Pages 72-81 Functional Integrity of Multi-agent Computational System Supported by Component-Based Implementation....Pages 82-91 On the Empirical Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Framework for Automated Negotiation....Pages 92-101 A Decentralized Scheduling Policy for a Dynamically Reconfigurable Production System....Pages 102-113 A Study on Real-Virtual Interaction Method for Production Scheduling Using Model Plant....Pages 114-123 Using an Agent-Supported Simulation Environment for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems....Pages 124-134 A Study on Real-Time Scheduling for Holonic Manufacturing Systems – Determination of Utility Values Based on Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning....Pages 135-144 An Open-Control Concept for a Holonic Multiagent System....Pages 145-154 Plan, Commit, Execute Protocol in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 155-164 Distributed Sensing and Control Architecture for Automotive Factory Automation....Pages 165-174 MAS-Based Cooperative Control for Biotechnological Process-A Case Study....Pages 175-182 Design and Implementation of LabVIEW-Based IEC61499 Compliant Device....Pages 183-192 Holonic-Based Environment for Solving Transportation Problems....Pages 193-202 Holonic Manufacturing Paint Shop....Pages 203-214 Development of a Holonic Free-Roaming AGV System for Part Manufacturing....Pages 215-224 Safety Discrete Event Models for Holonic Cyclic Manufacturing Systems....Pages 225-233 A Holonic Chain Conveyor Control System: An Application....Pages 234-243 A Multiagent System for Self-organisation of an 802.11 Mesh Network....Pages 244-253 Mobility Model for Tactical Networks....Pages 254-265 Holonic Modelling of Large Scale Geographic Environments....Pages 266-275 Holonic Models for Traffic Control Systems....Pages 276-284 A Multi-Agent System for the Pay-As-You-GO (PAYGO) Social Security Scheme....Pages 285-294 Contract Monitoring in Agent-Based Systems: Case Study....Pages 295-304 A Multi-agent Scheduler for Rent-a-Car Companies....Pages 305-314 A Framework for Multi Robot Guidance Control....Pages 315-323 Back Matter....Pages - The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing very rapidly. The community around this R&D topic is also growing fast - despite the fact that the real-life practical implementations of such systems are still surprisingly rare. H- ever, the managers in different branches of industry feel that the holonic and agent-based systems represent the only way of managing and controlling very c- plex, highly distributed systems exploring vast volumes of accumulated knowledge. The relevant research and development activities gain more and more visible support from both industry as well as public sectors. Quite naturally, the number of scientific events aimed at the subject field is also growing rapidly. We see new lines of conf- ences like INDIN, we observe a strong focus of the already well-established conferences, e. g. , INCOM or ETFA, being shifted toward holonic and agent-based manufacturing systems. We see an increased interest of the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society, especially its Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems which leverages the experience gathered by the members of the former Ho- nic Manufacuting Systems (HMS) consortium. We see a clear orientation of the IEEE SMC Transactions, part C, toward applications of agent-oriented solutions. The same is true of the International Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). This is a really good sign of the increasing importance of the field.