SARC2008 : Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems
S.A.R.C. is an International Workshop to be held at the Second International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2008) Isola di San Servolo (Venice), Italy, October 20-24, 2008
Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
This workshop is planned on a one day workshop and consists of two sessions: presentation session on the morning, work session in the afternoon. The two sessions of the workshop are interactive, we welcome researchers and software engineers interested in the theme of the workshop
Morning Program
Morning program
9.00 - 9.20
Opening : Robustness and cooperation in Holonic multi-agent systems
9.20 - 9.50
Presentation 1 : “Fundamentals of Holonic Systems and their Implications for Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems”, Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel and Tom Holvoet
Presentation (pdf)
10.00 - 10.30
Presentation 2 : “Self-organization in Manufacturing Systems: Challenges and Opportunities”, Paulo Leitão
Presentation (pdf)
10.30 - 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30
Presentation 3 : “How to control emergence of behaviours in a holarchy”,Massimo Cossentino,Stéphane Galland,Nicolas Gaud,Vincent Hilaire and Abderrâa Koukam
Presentation (pdf)
11.30 - 12.00
Presentation 4 : “Flexible hierarchical organisation of role based agents”,Emmanuel Adam,Emmanuelle Grislin-LeStrugeon and René Mandiau
Presentation (pdf)
12.00 - 12.30
Presentation 5 : “MAS and SOA: A Case Study Exploring Principles and Technologies to Support Self-Properties in As-sembly Systems”,Luis Ribeiro,Jose Barata and Armando Colombo
Presentation (pps)
12.30 - 13.00
Discussion
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
Work session
The objective is to lead to some outline for journal papers
14h00 - 15h30: Distributed solving (2 teams)
Question A: “Robustness : impact of the organisation on the fault tolerances ?”
list of advantages ? (cooperative survey, . . . )
list of disadvantages ? ( rebuild the organisational links, an agent dies ? what about its subsystem ?, . . . )
particular needs, properties for robustness in holonic multi-agent system ?
Question B: “Cooperation vs Autonomy”
in what way cooperation limits agents autonomy ?
control mechanisms for the agents autonomy ? holonic norms violation detection ? sanctions ?
15h30 - 16h00: Syntheses presentation
16h00-16h30 : Cofee break!
16h30 - 17h30: Question C: “What problems need holonic multiagent systems ?”
what are the properties which a system (physical or not) has to have to be managed / simulated by a holonic multiagent system
what are the properties which a system (physical or not) has NOT to have to be managed / simulated by a holonic multiagent system
evaluation of holonic multiagent system solutions vs multiagent system solution, vs others solutions ?
17h30 - 18h00: Discussions
discussion on the integration of Holonic agents in Industry: Robustness is the key issue for the acception of multiagent systems and holonic multiagent systems ?
discussion on the activities envisaged following the workshop ..
18h00:End of the workshop
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