[agents] {Disarmed} SOHOMA 2014 Special Session on Adaptive and self-organized Multi-Agent Systems

[Emmanuel ADAM]

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SOHOMA 2014 Special Session - AMAS
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*'Adaptive and self-organized Multi-Agent Systems**'*
***in the 'Service Orientation in HOlonic and Multi-Agent manufacturing' 
Workshop*
http://www.sohoma14.cimr.pub.ro/ 
<http://paams.net/special-sessions/SS4-COREMAS>
/Nancy, France, November 5-6//, 2014//
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Multi-Agent Systems, and Holonic Multi-Agent Systems, mainly exploited 
and developed in Manufacturing Systems, are more and more used in other 
fields such as complex system simulations, information systems, 
distributed problems solving...

Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are flexible; their only strict obligation 
is to follow a pyramidal structure. They really have an interesting 
potential, however, methods and tools in order to facilitate their 
design and management, especially regarding to their Self-Adaptation and 
Self-Organization capabilities, are required. Indeed, the main 
characteristics of a Holonic Multi-Agent System, that are the robustness 
and the cooperation, are dependent of the dynamic of the Multi-Agent 
System and of unexpected events that occur in the environment.

*Robustness* enables the Multi-Agent Systems to cope with perturbations, 
faults and hard constraints. Such a property can typically be 
implemented using self-organization solutions such as regeneration of 
faulty agents, generation of new agents and/or migration of agents 
between Multi-Agent Systems.

*Cooperation* ensures that if each agent, classically pursuing its own 
goals and strategies in the pyramidal organization, interacts with each 
others in a cooperative way, all agents will collectively lead the 
Multi-Agent System to its intended overall goal. This property is 
generally processed by locally and autonomously modifying agents' roles 
or behaviours, by adapting their strategies; it is a way to implement 
*self-adaptation* of the agents/holons.

This Special Session of SOHOMA welcomes models and methods linked to 
*robustness*, *cooperation*, *self-adaptation* and *self-organization* 
in Multi-Agent Systems, enabling emergence of new behaviours as well as 
sub-organizations.


*_Keywords_*: multi-agent systems, holonic multi-agent systems, 
self-organisation, cooperation, fault-recovery, robustness, cooperation, 
emergence, distributed control.


*-- *****Important dates*****-- *
-    Full Paper Submission:             May 22, 2014
-    Notification of Acceptance:      June 22, 2014
-    Final Paper Submission:            September 8, 2014


-- *Submitting Papers* --
The papers are limited to 8 pages formatted in the Springer Book format 
for "Studies in Computational Intelligence" according to the instructions.
/http://www.sohoma14.cimr.pub.ro/Submission.html//
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-- *Publication* --
All papers duly presented at the Workshop will be included in the :
/*SOHOMA'14 post conference Proceedings publication in special issues 
of: Springer series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", Journal of 
Intelligent Manufacturing (Springer) and Computers in Industry 
(Elsevier)*/*.*


*/--* Organisers* --/*/*
*//- Emmanuel ADAM, LAMIH / University of Valenciennes, FRANCE 
(emmanuel.adam at univ-valenciennes.fr)//
//- Valérie CAMPS,  IRIT / Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FRANCE 
(Valerie.Camps at irit.fr)//
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