SUGGESTED TOPICS (but not limited to):

• Theoretical backgrounds behind holonic/agent concepts

• Industrial applications of multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures in Industrie 4.0 (case-studies are specially appreciated) as well as applications in smart grids, smart cities, and flexible logistics

• Design principles, methodologies and applications of Cyber-Physical Systems

• Design principles and methodologies for flexible production planning and scheduling

• Specification of holonic, agent-based, and service-oriented architectures and design methodologies including approaches for their fusion and system integration

• Semantic Web technologies, Knowledge Ontologies and Big Data in agent-based and SOA-based industrial systems

• Communication principles and standards

• Virtual organizations & holonic factories – reconfigurable factories

• Modeling and simulation tools

• Reconfiguration tasks, coalition formation

• Novel application areas (health-care, environmental protection, government, humanitarian missions, smart grids, and smart cities, Energy 4.0)

• Visions and future trends of multi-agent systems and SOA-based architectures in the Industrie 4.0 visions

• Standardization issues, security issues, industrial and logistic needs in security and standardization

• Obstacles and barriers to industrial deployment

• Validation and testing approaches and methods for complex intelligent, industrial systems