Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements are forcing major changes
in the production styles and configuration of manufacturing enterprises. Traditional …

We propose a recursive multi-resolution collaborative architecture (MRCA), based on multi-
agent coordination mechanisms as a solid foundation for the development of web-centric …

In this paper we explore the holonic enterprise as an example of the phenomenon of
emergence. To conduct this exploration, we describe some of the development work now …

The purpose of this work is to develop an adaptive risk management framework capable to
prevent, identify and respond in critical time to threats. Our focus is on protecting critical …

Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration
and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassing e …

As the link between technology and society, indus-trial systems have a leading role in
societal development, which in the 21st Century became the e-Society. They have to endow …

This paper presents first results for a theoretical foundation for emergency e-Logistics based
on an extended FIPA-compliant layered multi-agent system architecture. The approach is …

We propose an e-business model, the holonic enterprise (HE) which integrates several
paradigms (holonics, MAS, virtual enterprise, Web-centric enterprise and co-opetition) that …

This article aims to introduce a non-conventional method for extracting, decoding and
classifying the information regarding defects that could appear and develop in components …

This paper presents first results for a theoretical foundation for emergency e-Logistics based
on an extended FIPA-compliant layered multi-agent system architecture. The approach is …