Despite the fact that real-life practical implementations of such systems remain surprisingly rare, the leaders in different branches of industry feel that the holonic and agent-based systems represent the only way to manage and control very complex, highly distributed systems in the future.

Invited Talks.- The Past, Present, and Future of IEC 61499.- Can Multi-Agents Wake Us from IC Design Productivity Nightmare?.- Motivation.- From Intelligent Agents to Intelligent Beings.- Multi-agent Reflection in Autonomic Systems.- Auctions with Arbitrary Deals.- Architectures and Services.- Service Composition in Holonic Multiagent Systems: Model-Driven Choreography and Orchestration.- Flexible Roles in a Holonic Multi-Agent System.- Agent-Based Inter-Organizational Workflow Management System.- Co-operative Co-evolutionary System for Solving Dynamic VRPTW Problems with Crisis Situations.- Anonymity Architecture for Mobile Agent Systems.- SitCom – Development Platform for Multimodal Perceptual Services.- New Technologies and Techniques.- An Ontology-Based Reconfiguration Agent for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems.- Methods to Observe the Clustering of Agents Within a Multi-Agent System.- Distributed Director Facilitator in a Multiagent Platform for Networked Embedded Controllers.- Agent Methods for Network Intrusion Detection and Response.- Detecting Intrusions in Agent System by Means of Exception Handling.- Smart Caching Algorithm for Software Agents Based on Re-execution Probability.- Planning and Scheduling.- Metaheuristic Agent Teams for Job Shop Scheduling Problems.- Distributed Production Scheduling Using Federated Agent Architecture.- A Study on Real-Time Scheduling for Holonic Manufacturing Systems – Simulation for Estimation of Future Status by Individual Holons.- Adaptive Planning for Supply Chain Networks.- An Agent Based Modelling Approach for Stochastic Planning Parameters.- Design Issues.- A Holonic Metamodel for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design.- Using Adaptable Design to Classify Interactions Within a Distributed Control Architecture.-Application of the Holonic Approach in Distributed Control Systems Designing.- Design and Implementation of Adaptive Agents for Complex Manufacturing Systems.- Dynamic Configuration and Management of e-Supply Chains Based on Internet Public Registries Visited by Clusters of Software Agents.- Applications.- A Multiagent Control System for Shop Floor Assembly.- MagentaToolkit: A Set of Multi-agent Tools for Developing Adaptive Real-Time Applications.- On Practical Implementation of Holonic Control Principles in Baggage Handling Systems Using IEC 61499.- Zero Downtime Reconfiguration of Distributed Automation Systems: The ?CEDAC Approach.- Holonic Multiagent-Based System for Distributed Control of Semi-industrial Pilot Plants.- Collision Avoidance Algorithms: Multi-agent Approach.- Creating Contract Templates for Car Insurance Using Multi-agent Based Text Understanding and Clustering.- Multi-agent-Based Diagnostics of Automotive Electronic Systems.- PIHolS Workshop.- Performance in Industrial Holonic Systems.- Towards Industrial Strength Business Performance Management.- Ontology-Based Competence Management for Team Configuration.- Information Agents Handling Semantic Data as an Extension to Process Monitoring Systems.- Applications of Virtual Reality in Design and Simulation of Holonic Manufacturing Systems: A Demonstration in Die-Casting Industry.- Resilience in the Face of Disaster: Accounting for Varying Disaster Magnitudes, Resource Topologies, and (Sub)Population Distributions in the PLAN C Emergency Planning Tool.- Holonic Simulation of a Design System for Performance Analysis.