The term “holon” was? rst introduced by Koestler (Koestler, 1967) to c-ture the idea that both
biological and social structures consisted of entities that were part of a larger whole, while …

Remote space operations is a very demanding domain for software systems, requiring the
characteristics of high availability, robustness, autonomy, real-time or near real-time …

In a market where rapid changes in demand, product mix and volumes are now
commonplace and where the requirement for a production operation to be reliable in terms …

Holonic manufacturing is a concept of considerable promise in terms of providing the
flexibility and responsiveness required by virtual enterprises. However if this promise is to be …

This paper describes a novel agent-based execution architecture for manufacturing. Integral
to this architecture is the separation of part processing concerns from manufacturing …

This paper focuses on the physical resource coordination problem for reconfigurable
manufacturing systems. It establishes requirements for physical resource coordination to …

In a market where rapid changes in demand, product mix and volumes are now
commonplace and where the requirement for a production operation to be reliable in terms …