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The Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence ACAI 2001 with the subtitle M ulti- Agent Systems and Their Applications , held in Prague, Czech Republic, was a joint event of ECCAI (the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) and AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing. Whereas ECCAI organizes two-week ACAI courses on different topics every second year, AgentLink s European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) has been an annual event since 1999. This year, both of these important events were merged together, giving weight to the fact that multi-agent systems currently represent one of the hottest topics in AI research. The name, ACAI 2001 Summer School, is intended to emphasize that this event continues the tradition of regular ECCAI activities (ACAI), as well as the EASSS summer schools of AgentLink. The Prague ACAI Summer School was proposed and initiated by both the Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University, Prague (GL-CTU) and the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI), with the support of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna (OFAI). Part of our motivation was catalyzed by experience gained in 1992 during the International Summer School Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (see Springer s LNAI vol. 617) which was organized by the same Czech and Austrian bodies. One of the most important stimulating factors behind the organization of ACAI 2001 was the support provided by the European Commission to the Gerstner Laboratory within the frame of the MIRACLE Center of Excellence project (IST No.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2009, held in Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 2, 2009. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on introduction & motivation, knowledge-centered approaches, selected theoretical aspects, MAS scheduling & simulation, holonic systems for manufacturing, and MAS & holonic applications.

Computer integrated manufacturing systems --- Expert systems (Computer science) --- Manufacturing processes --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Computer Science --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering --- Automation --- Information Technology --- Artificial Intelligence --- Computer science. --- Production management. --- Information technology. --- Business --- Artificial intelligence. --- Application software. --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Management information systems. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing. --- Management of Computing and Information Systems. --- Operations Management. --- IT in Business. --- Data processing. --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Management --- CAE --- Engineering --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Informatics --- Science --- Communication systems --- Data processing --- Computer aided design. --- Information systems. --- Information Systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- CAD (Computer-aided design) --- Computer-assisted design --- Computer-aided engineering --- Design --- Business—Data processing.

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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 stochastic, and, as a result, increasingly difficult to manage. Unfortunately, the traditional hierarchical, strictly centralized approach to control used in these domains is characteristically inflexible, fragile, and difficult to maintain. These shortcomings have led to the development of a new class of manufacturing and supply-chain decision-making approaches in recent years. Solutions based on these approaches usually explore a set of highly distributed decision-making units that are capable of autonomous operations while cooperating interactively to resolve larger problems. The units, referred to as agents in classical computer science and software engineering, or holons if physically integrated with the manufacturing hardware, interact by exchanging information. These units are motivated by arriving at local solutions as well as collaborating and sharing resources and goals in solving the overall problem in question collectively.

Artificial intelligence. --- Application software. --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Computers. --- Production management. --- Information technology. --- Business—Data processing. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing. --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Computing Milieux. --- Operations Management. --- IT in Business. --- Multi agent systems --- HoloMAS --- Holonic systems