HoloMAS2017 - 8th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems

August 28-30, 2017, Lyon, France

in conjunction with DEXA 2017 events


ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Holonic and multi-agent systems provide a novel paradigm for managing, modelling and supporting complex systems. This concept has proved to be successful in a number of industrial domains such as manufacturing, real-time control, supply chain management, logistics, production planning and scheduling, air traffic control, smart grids, and others. Multi-agent systems play the role of a key technology in the field of future manufacturing within the frame of the Industrie 4.0 visions.

The conference aims to bring together researchers active in the area of Holonic and Multi-agent Systems, Service-Oriented Architectures, Knowledge-based System Integration as well as Cyber-Physical Systems, and together with key engineers and industrial decision makers to share their views and experience in design, development and application of Holonic and Multi-agent Systems for Industrie 4.0 solutions.

Technical co-sponsorships of the IEEE SMC TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems (TC-DIS), the IEEE SMC TC on Intelligent Industrial Systems (TC-IIS), and the IEEE IES TC on Industrial Agents (TC-IA) are expected.


SUGGESTED TOPICS (but not limited to):
• Theoretical backgrounds behind holonic/agent concepts
• Industrial applications of multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures in Industrie 4.0 (case-studies are specially appreciated) as well as applications in smart grids, smart cities, and flexible logistics
• Design principles, methodologies and applications of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Design principles and methodologies for flexible production planning and scheduling
• Specification of holonic, agent-based, and service-oriented architectures and design methodologies including approaches for their fusion and system integration
• Semantic Web technologies, Knowledge Ontologies and Big Data in agent-based and SOA-based industrial systems
• Communication principles and standards
• Virtual organizations & holonic factories – reconfigurable factories
• Modeling and simulation tools
• Reconfiguration tasks, coalition formation
• Novel application areas (health-care, environmental protection, government, humanitarian missions, smart grids, and smart cities, Energy 4.0)
• Visions and future trends of multi-agent systems and SOA-based architectures in the Industrie 4.0 visions
• Standardization issues, security issues, industrial and logistic needs in security and standardization
• Obstacles and barriers to industrial deployment
• Validation and testing approaches and methods for complex intelligent, industrial systems

As a part of the HoloMAS 2017 Conference, The 3rd German-Czech Workshop on Industrie 4.0 will be organized.


PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS
Authors are invited to submit research contributions or critiques of practical experience. Papers (in English) should not exceed 14 pages in Springer Verlag format. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically to the conference web site. All accepted conference papers will be published in the conference proceedings in “Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence” (LNAI) series by Springer Verlag.


IMPORTANT DATES
1. Submission deadline: extended to March 27, 2017
2. Acceptance notice: April 30, 2017
3. Camera-ready copies: May 20, 2017


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), DE
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ
Thomas Strasser, Austrian Institute of Technology, A


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To Be Confirmed):
Reiner Anderl, Technical University Darmstadt, DE
Jose Barata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT
Theodeor Borangiu, University of Bucharest, RO
Robert W. Brennan, University of Calgary, CAN
Luis Camarinha-Matos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT
Patrikakis Charalampos, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, GR
Armando W. Colombo, University of Applied Sciences Emden-Leer, DE
Ulrich Epple, RWTH Aachen, DE
Adriana Giret, Universidad Politechnica de Valencia, ES
Kenwood Hall, Rockwell Automation, USA
Zdeněk Hanzálek, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ
Jürgen Jasperneite, Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, DE
Václav Jirkovský, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ
Petr Kadera, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ
Toshiya Kaihara, Kobe University, JPN
Martin Klima, CertiCon, a.s., CZ
Matthias Klusch, German ResearchCenter for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), DE
Kari Koskinen, Aalto University, FI
Jose L. M. Lastra, Tampere University of Technology, FI
Paulo Leitao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, PT
Wilfired Lepuschitz, PRIA, AT
Francisco Maturana, Rockwell Automation, USA
Duncan McFarlane, Cambridge University, UK
Munir Merdan, PRIA, AT
Thanh Nguyen Ngoc, Polytechnic University of Wroclaw, PL
Marek Obitko, Rockwell Automation, CZ
Boris Otto, Technical University Dortmund, DE
Stuart Rubin, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, USA
Arndt Schirrmann, Airbus Group, DE
Tim Schwartz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), DE
Ilkka Seilonen, Aalto University, FI
Petr Skobelev, Smart Solutions, RUS
Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, RUS
Václav Snášel, Technical University, Ostrava, CZ
Pavel Tichy, Rockwell Automation, CZ
Damien Trentesaux, University of Valenciennes, FR
Jiří Vokřínek, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ
Valeriy Vyatkin, Aalto University, FI & Luleå Techniska Universitet, SE
Michael Weinhold, Siemens AG, DE
Alois Zoitl, Fortiss, DE


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Prof. Vladimir Marik
Czech Technical University in Prague,
CIIRC, Zikova 4, 166 36, Prague 6,
Czech Republic
e-mail: holomas@ciirc.cvut.cz
fax: +420 224 923 677
http://www.ciirc.cvut.cz/HoloMAS2017
http://www.dexa.org/