[agents] Call for papers - HoloMAS 2009, Linz, Austria

[holomas at labe.felk.cvut.cz]

CALL FOR PAPERS

HoloMAS 2009

4rd 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

CONFERENCE  CO-CHAIRS:
Vladimir Marik		Czech Technical University in Prague/Rockwell Automation, CZ
Monique Calisti		Whitestein Technologies, CH 
Thomas Strasser		Profactor, A

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, CAN
Birgit Burmeister		Daimler Chrysler, D
Luis Camarinha-Matos	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, P
Marco Colla			SUPSI/ICIMSI, CH
Armando W. Colombo	Schneider Electric, D
Luca Ferrarini		Politecnico di Milano, I
Motohisa Funabashi	Hitachi, JPN
Dominic Greenwood		Whitestein Technologies, CH
William Gruver		Simon Fraser University, CAN
Kenneth Hall		Rockwell Automation, USA
Agirre Ibarbia		Fundacion Fatronik, SP
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
Paulo Leitao		Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, P
Francisco Maturana	Rockwell Automation, USA
Duncan McFarlane		Cambridge University, UK
Michal Pechoucek		Czech Technical University, CZ
Duc Pham			University of Cardiff, UK
Milan Rollo			Czech Technical University, CZ
Martijn Rooker		Profactor, A
Stuart Rubin		SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, USA
Ilkka Seilonen		Helsinki University of Technology, FIN
Leonid Sheremetov		Mexican Oil Institute, MEX
Alexander Smirnov		SPIIRAS, RUS
Thomas Strasser		Profactor, A
Paul Valckenaers		Catholic University Leuven, B
Antonio Valentini		OOONEIDA, B
Tomas Vlcek			CertiCon, CZ
Pavel Vrba			Rockwell Automation, CZ
Valeriy Vyatkin		University of Auckland, NZ
Alois Zoitl			Vienna University of Technology, A


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

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 at labe.felk.cvut.cz
Fax: +(420 2) 2492 3677

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