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Holonic Rationale and Self-organization on Design of Complex Evolvable Systems

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing (HoloMAS 2009)

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Old-fashioned centralized and rigid control structures are becoming inflexible to address the current requirements of reconfigurability, responsiveness and robustness. The Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) paradigm, which was pointed out to face these requirements, translates the concepts inherited from social organizations and biology to the manufacturing world. It offers an alternative way of designing adaptive systems where the traditional centralized control is replaced by decentralization over distributed entities. In spite of its potential, methods regarding the self-adaptation and self-organization of complex systems are still missing. This paper discusses how the insights from biology in connection with new fields of computer science can be useful to enhance the holonic design aiming to achieve more self-adaptive and evolvable systems.

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus Sta Apolonia, Apartado 1134, 5301-857, Bragança, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

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  1. Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, 16627 Praha 6, Czech Republic and Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague, Pekařská 10a/695,, 15500, Prague 5,, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

  2. PROFACTOR GmbH, Im Stadtgut A2, 4407, Steyr-Gleink, Austria

    Thomas Strasser

  3. Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Alois Zoitl

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Leitão, P. (2009). Holonic Rationale and Self-organization on Design of Complex Evolvable Systems. In: Mařík, V., Strasser, T., Zoitl, A. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_1

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