Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing: Second International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-24, 2005, Proceedings

The challenge faced in today’s manufacturing and business environments is the question of how to satisfy increasingly stringent customer requirements while managing growing system complexity. For example, customers expect high—quality, customizable, low—cost products that can be delivered quickly. The systems that deliver these expectations are by nature distributed, concurrent, and shastic, and, as a result, increasingly difficult to manage. Unfortunately, the traditional hierarchical, str...