Topics

• TRACK A: Collective Robotics and Human/Robot Interaction: Multi-robot and multi-sensor fusion, SLAM methods for multi-robot systems, cooperative environment exploration, team behavior, multi-agent systems in collective robotics, swarm robotics, building mixed human-robot teams.
  THIS TRACK IS EXPECTED TO SUMMARIZE THE RESULTS OF SEVERAL SUCCESSFUL EU PROJECTS.
  
  
• TRACK B: Industry Applications of Distributed and Agent-Based Systems: Theoretical backgrounds of holonic/agent concepts, architecture of industrial agent-based solutions, virtual organizations and holonic factories, e-manufacturing, reconfiguration tasks, design methodologies, simulation tools, standardization.
  THIS TRACK IS ORGANIZED BY MEMBERS OF THE HoloMAS COMMUNITY (THE HoloMAS CONFERENCE IS NOT SCHEDULED FOR 2006) AND IS SUPPORTED BY THE EU NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE I*PROMS.
  
  
• TRACK C: Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations: Coalition operation management, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning and multi-agent systems applied to coalition formation, collaborative coalition action planning, trust building, security aspects.
  THE TRACK C IS ORGANIZED BY THE KSCO (KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR COALITION OPERATIONS) WORKING GROUP.