[agents] {Spam-e?} call for proposition special session SARC at IMS'10

[Emmanuel Adam]

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Special Session
"Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems"
of the 10th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS?10),
which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 1-2 July 2010
http://www.ims10.ipb.pt/

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*Rationale of the need and objective of the session*
InIMS and Holonic Multi-Agent Systems, mainly used and developed in manufacturing systems, have an interesting potential, regarding the control for example.
However, methods and tools to facilitate theirdesign and management, in particular regarding to their Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization or reorganisation properties, are required.
Indeed, the main characteristics of such Systems, that are the robustness and the cooperation, are dependent of the dynamic of the multi-agent system.
Robustness enables IMS and HMS to cope with perturbations, faults and hard constraints. Implementing such a property is typically a self-organization
problem where regeneration of faulty agents, generation of new agents and/or migration of agents between part of the IMS of Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are some examples of the proposed answers.
Cooperation means that even if each entity/agent of the system is autonomous and self-reliant, all agents taken together have to collectively lead the IMS/HMS to its intended global goal.
This property is generally processed by letting the agents locally and autonomously modifying their roles or behaviors, by adapting their strategies to
work with other agents; it is a self-adaptation property.
Emergence and adaptation of behaviors, roles or organization is a reality and a need in IMS and HMS, to be able to evolve in demanding and dynamic environment, but it has to be analyzed and controlled.

*Session outline*
TheSelf-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Session will focus on models and methods linked to
robustness and cooperation in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, in holonic multi-agent systems and in multi-agent systems, enabling emergence of new behaviors and sub-organizations.
This workshop aims at encouraging researchers who come from the Information Technologies field and who have some interesting and rigorous works on robustness and on cooperation, based on principles of self-adaptation and selforganization, to propose their contributions in an holomas context.
Likewise, this workshop aims at encouraging researchers working in holonic manufacturing systems domain to compare their works with those which come from the Information Technologies dimension.
The session also aims to establish links between searchers that come from the Information Technologies field and searchers working in the holonic manufacturing systems domain.

*Specific topics of interest*
Weseek contributions on ongoing innovative work and applications on robustness and cooperation issues in IMS and HoloMAS, based on Self- Adaptation and Self-Organization capacities. Specifically, the session topics include, but are not limited to:
- Intelligent Manufacturing system,
- Holonic manufacturing system,
- holonic multi-agent system,
- Fault-recovery,
- Models of cooperation and coordination for autonomous agents/holons,
- Predicting and controlling emergence of behavior,
- Self-adaptation of roles and/or services,
- Delegation tasks, reconfiguration tasks,
- Self-organization of IMS,HMS and holonic multi-agent systems,
- Case studies that shows self-adaptation or self-organization,
- Models of self-management,
- Models and meta-models of self-organizing holonic multi-agent systems.

*Contact information for the Special Session chair(s)*
Emmanuel ADAM,
Assistant Professor,
LAMIH - UMR CNRS 8530, GR RAIHM
Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambresis ? FRANCE
Phone: (33)3.27.51.14.99 - Fax: (33)3.27.51.13.16
Email: emmanuel.adam at univ-valenciennes.fr
http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/LAMIH/?perso=adam_emmanuel