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.
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 28,2007
2. Acceptance notice: April 15, 2007
3. Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2007
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Vladimir Marik Czech Technical
University in Prague/Rockwell Automation, CZ
Armando W. Colombo Schneider Electric, D
Valeriy Vyatkin University of
Auckland, NZ
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 Koskinen Helsinki University of Technology, FIN
Dilip Kotak National Research Council of Canada, 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 Catholic University 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
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Prof. Vladimir Marik
Czech Technical University in Prague
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Department of Cybernetics (K13133)
Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6
Czech Republic
e-mail: holomas@labe.felk.cvut.cz
Fax: +(420 2) 2492 3677