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and Motivation.- Holonic Rationale and Self-organization on Design of Complex Evolvable Systems.- Service-Oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems.- Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation.- Knowledge-Centered Approaches.- An Organizational Knowledge Ontology for Automotive Supply Chains.- Semantic Extension of Agent-Based Control: The Packing Cell Case Study.- Product Design Network Self-contextualization: Enterprise Knowledge-Based Approach and Agent-Based Technological Framework.- Selected Theoretical Aspects.- Collaboration of Metaheuristic Algorithms through a Multi-Agent System.- Functional Integrity of Multi-agent Computational System Supported by Component-Based Implementation.- On the Empirical Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Framework for Automated Negotiation.- MAS Scheduling and Simulation.- A Decentralized Scheduling Policy for a Dynamically Reconfigurable Production System.- A Study on Real-Virtual Interaction Method for Production Scheduling Using Model Plant.- Using an Agent-Supported Simulation Environment for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems.- A Study on Real-Time Scheduling for Holonic Manufacturing Systems – Determination of Utility Values Based on Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning.- MAS Control.- An Open-Control Concept for a Holonic Multiagent System.- Plan, Commit, Execute Protocol in Multi-agent Systems.- Distributed Sensing and Control Architecture for Automotive Factory Automation.- MAS-Based Cooperative Control for Biotechnological Process-A Case Study.- Design and Implementation of LabVIEW-Based IEC61499 Compliant Device.- Holonic Systems for Manufacturing.- Holonic-Based Environment for Solving Transportation Problems.- Holonic Manufacturing Paint Shop.- Developmentof a Holonic Free-Roaming AGV System for Part Manufacturing.- Safety Discrete Event Models for Holonic Cyclic Manufacturing Systems.- A Holonic Chain Conveyor Control System: An Application.- MAS and Holonic Applications.- A Multiagent System for Self-organisation of an 802.11 Mesh Network.- Mobility Model for Tactical Networks.- Holonic Modelling of Large Scale Geographic Environments.- Holonic Models for Traffic Control Systems.- A Multi-Agent System for the Pay-As-You-GO (PAYGO) Social Security Scheme.- Contract Monitoring in Agent-Based Systems: Case Study.- A Multi-agent Scheduler for Rent-a-Car Companies.- A Framework for Multi Robot Guidance Control.