Monday, 22 August 2005

10.30 – 12.30 – Invited Papers

Experience with Holonic and Agent-based Control Systems and Their Adoption by Industry
Kenwood H. Hall, Raymond J. Staron, Pavel Vrba (USA, Czech Republic)

Fundamental Insights into Holonic Systems Design
Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel (Belgium)

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 – Theoretical & Methodological Issues

MAS Methodology for HMS
Adriana Giret, Vicente Botti, Soledad Valero (Spain)

Probabilistic holons for efficient agent-based data mining and simulation
Arndt Schwaiger, Björn Stahmer (Germany)

An Information-Based Agent
John Debenham (Australia)

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.30 – Algorithms & Technologies

Designing Communication Protocols for Holonic Control Devices using Elementary Nets
James Brusey, Duncan McFarlane (UK)

A proposal of multi-agent negotiation mechanism based on dynamic market concept for Pareto optimal solution
Toshiya Kaihara, Susumu Fujii (Japan)

Integrating Transportation Ontologies
Marek Obitko, Vladimír Mařík (Czech Republic)

Tuesday, 23 August 2005

10.30 – 11.30 – Invited Papers

A 3D Simulation and Visualization Framework for Intelligent Physical Agents
Jose L. Martinez Lastra, Enrique Lopez Torres, Armando W. Colombo (Finland, Germany)

11.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 – Implementation & Validation Aspects

A Strategy to Implement and Validate Industrial Applications of Holonic
Systems
Francisco Maturana, Raymond Staron, Pavel Tichý, Petr Šlechta, Pavel Vrba (USA, Czech Republic)

Experimental Validation of ADACOR Holonic Control System
Paulo Leitão, Francisco Restivo (Portugal)

A Proxy Design Pattern to Support Real-time Distributed Control System Benchmarking
Karthik Soundararajan , Robert W. Brennan (Canada)

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00 – Supply Chain Management I

Configuration of Dynamic SME Supply Chains Based on Ontologies
Eva Blomqvist, Tatiana Levashova, Annika Öhgren, Kurt Sandkuhl, Alexander Smirnov, Vladimir Tarassov (Sweden, Russia)

Experiments toward a Practical Implementation of Intelligent Kanban using the Cambridge Auto-ID Laboratory
James Z. M. Zhang, James Brusey, Robert B. Johnston (Australia, UK)

Wednesday, 24 August 2005

10.30 – 12.30 – Applications I

Information Access and Control Operations in Multi-agent System Based Process Automation
Ilkka Seilonen, Teppo Pirttioja, Antti Pakonen, Pekka Appelqvist, Aarne Halme, Kari Koskinen (Finland)

An Initial Automation Object Repository for OOONEIDA
Robert W. Brennan (Canada)

Towards Engineering Methods for Reconfiguration of Distributed Real-time Control Systems based on the Reference Model of IEC 61499
Thomas Strasser, Alois Zoitl, Franz Auinger, Christoph Sünder (Austria)

Using Radio Frequency Identification in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control Systems
Pavel Vrba, Filip Macůrek, Vladimír Mařík (Czech Republic)

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 – Applications II

Resolving Scheduling Issues of the London Underground Using a Multi-agent System
Rajveer Basra, Kevin Lü, George Rzevski, Petr Skobelev (UK)

KARMEN: Multi-Agent Monitoring and Notification for Complex Process
Larry Bunch, Maggie Breedy, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Marco Carvalho, Niranjan Suri (USA)

Simulation of Underwater Surveillance by a Team of Autonomous Robots
Milan Rollo, Petr Novák, Pavel Jisl (Czech Republic)

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00 – Supply Chain Management II

A Reference-Model for Holonic Supply Chain Management
Richard Peters, Hermann Többen (Germany)

Polymorphic Agent Clusters – the Concept to Design Multi-Agent Environments Supporting Business Activities
Waldemar Wieczerzycki (Poland)