Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing: 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2009, Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 2, 2009, Proceedings

The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing very rapidly. The community around this R&D topic is also growing fast - despite the fact that the real-life practical implementations of such systems are still surprisingly rare. H- ever, the managers in different branches of industry feel that the holonic and agent-based systems represent the only way of managing and controlling very c- plex, highly distributed systems exploring vast volumes of accumulated knowledge. The releva...