... holonic concepts into a manufacturing setting: Holon: An autonomous and cooperative building block of a manufacturing system for transforming, transporting, storing, and/or validating information ... be applied to manufacturing enterprise integration, supply chain management, intelligent design, manufacturing scheduling and control, material handling, and holonic manufacturing systems 3.2 ... Heterarchical Scheduling for Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Proceedings of the 1995 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’95), Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing, Montreal,...