From the content: Service-Oriented Approach for Holonic Manufacturing Control and Beyond -- Service Oriented Control Framework for a Holonic System Characterized by a Guided Flow of Entities -- The Augmentation Concept: How to Make a Product "Active" During its Life Cycle -- Engineering Hierarchical Complex Systems: An Agent-based Approach. The Case of Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- HAPBA - a Holonic Adaptive Plan-Based Architecture -- Integrating Intelligent Robot Services in Holonic Manufacturing -- Key Factors for Information Dissemination on Communicating Products and Fixed Databases -- A Load Balancing Algorithm for Multi-Agent Systems.

Service orientation is emerging nowadays at multiple organizational levels in enterprise business, and it leverages technology in response to the growing need for greater business integration, flexibility and agility of manufacturing enterprises. This book gathers contributions from scientists, researchers and industrialists on concepts, methods, frameworks and implementing issues addressing trends in the service orientation of control technology and management applied to manufacturing enterprise. It analyzes a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) representing a technical architecture, a business modelling concept, a type of infrastructure, an integration source and a new way of viewing units of automation within the enterprise. The presents how SOA aligns the business world with the world of information technology in a way that makes both more effective.