Conference Programme

6th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (HoloMAS 2013 )

     
    August 26, 2013
    09:00 - 10:30

    HoloMAS - Session 1 : MAS in Automation and Manufacturing I

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Vladimir Marik

  • Advanced Shop-floor Scheduling with Genetic Algorithm for Combined Horizon Optimization in Holonic Manufacturing Systems
    Cristina Morariu, Octavian Morariu, Theodor Borangiu

  • Phase Agents and Dynamic Routing for Batch Process Automation
    Wilfried Lepuschitz, Benjamin Groessing, Emilian Axinia, Munir Merdan

  • Production Plan-Driven Flexible Assembly Automation Architecture
    Alois Zoitl, Gerd Kainz, Nadine Keddis

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    August 26, 2013
    10:00 - 10:30

    Coffee Break

     
    August 26, 2013
    10:30 - 11:00

    Coffee Break

     
    August 26, 2013
    11:00 - 12:00

    HoloMAS - Invited Talk : Thomas Strasser

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Vladimir Marik

  • Review of Trends and Challenges in Smart Grids: An Automation Point of View
    Thomas Strasser, Filip Andrén, Munir Merdan, and Alexander Prostejovsky

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    August 26, 2013
    12:00 - 13:30

    Lunch

     
    August 26, 2013
    13:30 - 15:00

    HoloMAS - Session 2 : MAS in Automation and Manufacturing II

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Pavel Vrba

  • Deployment of Multiagent Mechatronic Systems
    Luis Ribeiro, Jose Barata

  • Agent-based Control of Operational Conditions for Smart Factories: the Peak Load Management Scenario
    Anna Florea, Juha Lauttamus, Corina Postelnicu, Jose Luis Martinez Lastra

  • IceHMS, A Middleware for Distributed Control of Manufacturing Systems
    Olivier Roulet-Dubonnet, Morten Lind, Amund Skavhaug

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    August 26, 2013
    15:00 - 15:30

    Coffee Break

     
    August 26, 2013
    15:30 - 17:00

    HoloMAS - Session 3 : Industrial Applications I

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Wilfried Lepuschitz

  • Rationales of Holonic Manufacturing Systems in Leather Industry
    Sergiu-Adrian Guta, Ioan Dumitrache, Duncan McFarlane, Tariq Masood

  • Negotiating Hour-wise Tariffs in Multi-agent Electricity Markets
    Fernando Lopes, Hugo Algarvio, Helder Coelho

  • Product Intelligence in Warehouse Management: A Case Study
    Vaggelis Giannikas, Wenrong Lu, Duncan McFarlane, James Hyde

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    August 27, 2013
    09:00 - 10:30

    HoloMAS - Session 4 : MAS in Automation and Manufacturing III

    Location : 18 (Lecture Hall 18)

    Session Chair : Alois Zoitl

  • Structural Self-organized Holonic Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems
    José Barbosa, Paulo Leitão, Emmanuel Adam, Damien Trentesaux

  • Formal Study of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: A High Level Petri Nets based approach
    Laid Kahloul, Karim Djouani, Allaoua Chaoui

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    August 27, 2013
    10:30 - 11:00

    Coffee Break

     
    August 27, 2013
    11:00 - 12:00

    HoloMAS - Invited Talk : Armando Walter Colombo

    Location : 18 (Lecture Hall 18)

    Session Chair : Vladimir Marik

  • Service-Oriented Automation: Implementing Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems on the Shop Floor and Up

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    August 27, 2013
    11:00 - 12:00

    Keynote Talk : Klaus-Dieter Schewe

    Location : 1 (Lecture Hall 1)

    Session Chair : Hendrik Decker

  • Horizontal and Vertical (Business Process) Model Integration
    Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, Austria

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    August 27, 2013
    12:00 - 13:30

    Lunch

     
    August 27, 2013
    13:30 - 15:00

    HoloMAS - Session 5 : Industrial Applications II

    Location : 18 (Lecture Hall 18)

    Session Chair : Alexander Smirnov

  • Adaptive Multi-agent System for a Washing Machine Production Line
    Nelson Rodrigues, Arnaldo Pereira, Paulo Leitão

  • BarterCell: An Agent-based Bartering Service for Users of Pocket Computing Devices
    Sameh Abdalla, David Swords, Anara Sandygulova, Gregory M.P. O'Hare, Paolo Giorgini

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    August 27, 2013
    15:00 - 15:30

    Coffee Break

     
    August 27, 2013
    15:30 - 17:30

    HoloMAS - Session 6 : Design, Simulation & Validation

    Location : 18 (Lecture Hall 18)

    Session Chair : Theodor Borangiu

  • A Virtual Design Engineering Environment for Control System Design and Validation
    Francisco Maturana, Polo Paredes, Maulik Kalolia

  • Towards an Ontology for Small Series Production
    Udo Inden, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Lars Mönch, Pavel Vrba

  • Ontological extension of PROSA for manufacturing network formation
    Guiovanni Jules, Mozafar Saadat, Salman Saeidlou

  • A Method and Application to Simulate and Validate Manufacturing Control Systems Based on a Discrete Manufacturing Simulation Platform
    Olivier Roulet-Dubonnet, Per Aage Nyen

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    August 28, 2013
    09:00 - 10:30

    HoloMAS - Session 7 : New Trends I

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Paulo Leitão

  • Context-Aware Self-Configuration of Flexible Supply Networks
    Alexander Smirnov, Leonid Sheremetov, Christian Sánchez, Nikolay Shilov

  • Distributed Resource Search in Self-Organising Networks
    Muntasir Al-Asfoor, Maria Fasli

  • The `Two-Hop Principle': Stability of MAS in Communications Networks
    John Debenham, Ante Prodan

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    August 28, 2013
    10:30 - 11:00

    Coffee Break

     
    August 28, 2013
    11:00 - 12:00

    HoloMAS - Invited Talk : Vladimir A. Vittikh

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Petr Skobelev

  • Actors, Holonic Enterprises, Ontologies and Multi-Agent Technology
    Vladimir A. Vittikh, Vladimir B. Larukhin, Alexander V. Tsarev

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    August 28, 2013
    11:00 - 12:00

    Keynote Talk : Trevor Bench-Capon

    Location : B (Lecture Hall B)

    Session Chair : A Min Tjoa

  • Structuring E-Participation in Policy Making Through Argumentation
    Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK

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    August 28, 2013
    12:00 - 13:30

    Lunch

     
    August 28, 2013
    13:30 - 15:00

    HoloMAS - Session 8 : New Trends II

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Francisco Maturana

  • Agent Interaction Protocols in Support of Cloud Services Composition
    Djamel Benmerzoug, Mohamed Gharzouli, Mounira Zerari

  • Big Data Challenges in Industrial Automation
    Marek Obitko, Vaclav Jirkovsky, Jan Bezdicek

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    August 28, 2013
    15:00 - 15:30

    Coffee Break

     
    August 28, 2013
    15:30 - 17:30

    HoloMAS - Session 9 : MAS in Transportation Systems

    Location : 9 (Lecture Hall 9)

    Session Chair : Marek Obitko

  • Traffic Radar: a holonic traffic coordination system using PROSA++ and D-MAS
    Johan Philips, Bart Saint Germain, Jan Van Belle, Paul Valckenaers

  • A Multi-Agent System for Modelling Urban Transport Infrastructure Using Intelligent Traffic Forecasts
    Abdallah Namoun, Cesar Marin, Bart Saint Germain, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Johan Philips

  • The Art of Negotiation: Developing Efficient Agent-based Algorithms for Solving Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
    Petr Kalina, Jirí Vokrínek, Vladimír Marík