Information Technology for Balanced Manufacturing Systems

Keynote Papers.- Agent Based Manufacturing.- Tool Condition Monitoring in Machining - Neural Networks.- Agent-Based Supply Chain Planning in the Forest Products Industry.- Multi-Agent and Holonic Systems in Manufacturing.- An Agent-OS for Autonomous Cooperative Systems.- A Holonic Approach to Dynamic Manufacturing Scheduling.- Toward Collaborative Scheduling.- A Framework of Agent-Based Supply Chain Performance Analysis System.- An Agent-Based Simulation of A Jit Material Handling System.- Uncertain Temporal Support in Multiagent Medical Service.- Collaborative Event Management in Supply Chains: An Agent-Based Approach.- Design Patterns for Distributed Control System Benchmaking.- Industrial Application Integration Using Agent-Enabled Sematic SOA: Capnet Case Study.- A Multiagent Based Control System Applied to an Educational Shop Floor.- Networked Enterprises.- Distributted Work Environments for Collaborative Engineering.- Market Of Resources as an Enabler Of (Inter-)Organizational Reconfiguration Dynamics.- Business Networks in Small Textile Entrprises: The Case Of Nova Friburgo-Brasil.- Business Process Based Integration of Dynamic Collaborative Organizations.- Managing Complexity in Industrial Collaborations Within Tool & Die Industry.- A Multiagent-Based Complex Systems Approach for Efficient Partnering in Virtual Enterprise.- Design for Product Lifecycle Management.- Towards a Reference Model for Collaborative Networked Organizations.- Agent- Based Intelligent Media Distribution in Advertisement.- A Service Composabilty Model to Support Dynamic Cooperation of Cross-Enterprise Services.- On Formal Theories - And Formalisms for Virtual Enterprises.- Towards a Distributed Process Execution Platform for Collaborative Networks.- Integrated Design and Assembly.- An Innovative Maintenance Solution for Complex Machinery: The Kobas Project Case.- Real-Time Collaborative Design System for Product Assembly Over the Internet.- An Integrated Approach to a Multi-Attribute Decision Problem Through a Case Study.- Making Manufacturing Changes Less Disruptive: Agent-Driven Integration.- A Vision-Based Approach af Bare-Hand Interface Design in Virtual Assembly.- On the Assembly line: A View from Industrial Sociology.- An Object Based Virtual Reality Simulation Tool for Design Validation of a New Paradigm Manufacturing Facility.- On the Re-Configurability Design of Parallel Machine Tools.- Evolvable Assembly Systems Basic Principles.- A Cellular Neural Network for Deformable Object Modelling.- Monitoring and Control.- A Load Balancing Method for Dedicated Photolithography Machine Constraint.- Iterative Heuristics for Permutation Flow Shops with Total Flowtime Minimization.- Parameter Estimation for Time-Varying System Based on Combinatorial PSO.- Remote Monitoring and Control of Manufacturing System.- Architecture of a Web-Based Power SCADA System Using J2EE Technology.- A Web-Based CSCW System for Remote Substation Fault Diagnosis.- A Service-Oriented Framework for Integration of Shop Floor Scheduling and Control.- Computational Representation, Heterogeneity and Integration of Production System Models.- Timed-Event-State-Based Diagnoser for Manufacturing Systems.- NFC Technologies in Mobile Phones and Emerging Applications.- Integrated Knowledge and Simulation-Based Facility Supervision and Control.- On Stability Analysis of Bearing-Rotor System.- Batch Roundness Characterization and Evaluation.- A Point Cloud Simplification Algorithm for Mechanical Part Inspection.- Degeneration Methods in Intelligent Building Control System Design.- A New Method for the Hierarchical Modelling of Productive Systems.- Modelling and On-Line Monitoring of Machined Surface in Turning Operations.