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- Presentation slides of some papers are on-line

- Technical Program is available

- paper 21: "Zero Downtime Reconfiguration ..." has been schedulled for a different HoloMAS Session

- The list of accepted papers is published

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Technical Program (Tuesday, 4 September 2007):

The abstracts of the papers

14.00 – 15.30: HoloMAS Session B

Towards Industrial Strength Business Performance Management
Vadim Ermolayev, Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke

Ontology-Based Competence Management for Team Configuration
Vladimir Tarasov, Thomas Albertsen, Alexey Kashevnik, Kurt Sandkuhl,
Nikolay Shilov, Alexander Smirnov

Information Agents Handling Semantic Data as an Extension to Process Monitoring
Systems
Teppo Pirttioja, Ilkka Seilonen, Antti Pakonen, Aarne Halme, Kari Koskinen

16.00 – 17.30: HoloMAS Session B

Applications of Virtual Reality in Design and Simulation of Holonic Manufacturing
Systems: A Demonstration in Die-Casting Industry
Mert Bal, Majid Hashemipour

Resilience in the Face of Disaster: Accounting for Varying Disaster Magnitudes,
Resource Topologies, and (Sub)Population Distributions in the PLAN C Emergency
Planning Tool
Giuseppe Narzisi, Joshua S. Mincer, Silas Smith, Bud Mistra

Holonic Simulation of a Design System for Performance Analysis
Richard Sohnius, Eyck Jentzsch, Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke

Besides, the following HoloMAS keynote is of particular relevance:

9.00 - 11.00: HoloMAS Session A
Invited Talks

Can Multi-Agents Wake us from IC Design Productivity Nightmare?
Peter van Staa