Invited Papers -- Experience with Holonic and Agent-Based Control Systems and Their Adoption by Industry -- Fundamental Insights into Holonic Systems Design -- A 3D Visualization and Simulation Framework for Intelligent Physical Agents -- Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- MAS Methodology for HMS -- Probabilistic Holons for Efficient Agent-Based Data Mining and Simulation -- An Information-Based Agent -- Algorithms and Technologies -- Designing Communication Protocols for Holonic Control Devices Using Elementary Nets -- A Proposal of Multi-agent Negotiation Mechanism Based on Dynamic Market Concept for Pareto Optimal Solution -- Integrating Transportation Ontologies Using Semantic Web Languages -- Implementation and Validation Aspects -- A Strategy to Implement and Validate Industrial Applications of Holonic Systems -- Experimental Validation of ADACOR Holonic Control System -- A Proxy Design Pattern to Support Real-Time Distributed Control System Benchmarking -- Applications -- Information Access and Control Operations in Multi-agent System Based Process Automation -- An Initial Automation Object Repository for OOONEIDA -- Towards Engineering Methods for Reconfiguration of Distributed Real-Time Control Systems Based on the Reference Model of IEC 61499 -- Using Radio Frequency Identification in Agent-Based Manufacturing Control Systems -- Resolving Scheduling Issues of the London Underground Using a Multi-agent System -- KARMEN: Multi-agent Monitoring and Notification for Complex Processes -- Simulation of Underwater Surveillance by a Team of Autonomous Robots -- Supply Chain Management -- A Reference-Model for Holonic Supply Chain Management -- Polymorphic Agent Clusters – The Concept to Design Multi-agent Environments Supporting Business Activities -- Configuration of Dynamic SME Supply Chains Based on Ontologies -- Experiments Toward a Practical Implementation of an Intelligent Kanban System.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2005. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical and methodological issues, algorithms and technologies, implementation and validation aspects, applications, and supply chain management.