This book provides holonic manufacturing system (HMS) specific guidelines to help designers in identifying and implementing holons. It presents complete development phases for the HMS life cycle.
Vicente Botti is head of the Group de Tecnologia Informatica - Inteligencia Artificial (GTI-IA) at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. His research interests are real-time artificial intelligence and multiagent systems.
Adriana Giret has a PhD in Computer Science and lectures at the Universidad de Valencia, where she works within the Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion. Her research interests are multiagent systems; holonic manufacturing systems; and agent-supported simulation for manufacturing systems.