Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing: Proceedings of SOHOMA 2018

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This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 8th edition of the International Workshop Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing - SOHOMA'18 held at the University of Bergamo, Italy on June 11-12, 2018. The objective of the SOHOMA annual workshops is to foster innovation in smart and sustainable manufacturing and logistics systems by promoting new concepts, methods and solutions that use service orientation of agent-based control technologies with distributed intelligence.

Reflecting the theme of SOHOMA'18: Digital transformation of manufacturing with agent-based control and service orientation of Internet-scale platforms , the research included focuses on how the digital transformation, as advocated by the Industry 4.0 , Industrial Internet of Things , Cyber-Physical Production Systems and Cloud Manufacturing frameworks, improves the efficiency, agility and sustainability of manufacturing processes, products, and services, and how it relates to the interaction between the physical and informational worlds, which is implemented in the virtualization of products, processes and resources managed as services.