This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2005.
The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical and methodological issues, algorithms and technologies, implementation and validation aspects, applications, and supply chain management.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3593 Vladimír Maˇrík Robert W. Brennan Michal Pˇechouˇcek (Eds.) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing Second International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-24, 2005 Proceedings 13 Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Vladimír Maˇrík Czech Technical University Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics Technická 2 16627 Prague 6, Czech Republic and Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague Pekaˇrská 10a/695, 15500 Prague 5, Czech Republic E-mail:
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[email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, J.1, D.2, I.6 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13 0302-9743 3-540-28237-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-28237-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11537847 06/3142 543210 Preface The challenge faced in today’s manufacturing and business environments is the question of how to satisfy increasingly stringent customer requirements while managing growing system complexity. For example, customers expect high-quality, customizable, low-cost products that can be delivered quickly. The systems that deliver these expectations are by nature distributed, concurrent, and stochastic, and, as a result, increasingly difficult to manage. Unfortunately, the traditional hierarchical, strictly centralized approach to control used in thes