Call for Papers

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 15th International Workshop on Service-Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future (SOHOMA2025), organized by the Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology of Aix-en-Provence (France), in collaboration with Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) - University of Cambridge, l’Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (LAMIH - Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science) and Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (CeDRI - Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics).

The main objective of SOHOMA workshops is to foster innovation in smart and sustainable manufacturing and logistics systems and in this context to promote concepts, methods, and solutions for the digital transformation of manufacturing through service orientation in holonic and agent-based control with distributed intelligence.

The theme of the SOHOMA 2025 Workshop is “Collaborative and Autonomous Manufacturing Ecosystems for Industry of the Future”. In this edition, the workshop will focuse on how new technologies can contribute to the emergence of collaborative and autonomous manufacturing ecosystems that serve the Industry of the Future principles of human-centricity, resilience and sustainability.

Workshop topics

• Modelling of discrete event dynamic industrial systems
• Multi-Agent Systems and control with distributed intelligence in industry
• Product intelligence: concepts, architectures, implementation, use cases
• Holonic Manufacturing Execution Systems
• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
• Dynamic and green infrastructure for sustainable manufacturing
• Mixed production planning and scheduling
• Virtual factory, networked supply chains and customer-oriented logistics
• Manufacturing Integration Framework
• Digital Twins with resource and product virtualization
• Edge and Fog Computing for Industrial Internet of Things
• Industrial Internet of Things / Physical Internet
• Cloud Manufacturing and resource virtualization
• Servitization and Product-Service System
• Intelligent process automation
• Low cost automation
• Multi factory coordination
• Generative AI in Distributed automation
• Industrial automation development
• Swarm intelligence in manufacturing
• Multi-robot systems in manufacturing, control, and applications
• Bio-inspired theories for smart manufacturing and evolutionary robotics
• Big Data streaming and the contextual enterprise
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning in large scale manufacturing
• Predictive resource health monitoring and maintenance
• Cyber-Physical Production Systems and Industry 4.0 / 5.0
• Manufacturing as a Service, product design for open manufacturing
• Universal Manufacturing: models, cloud manufacturing, enterprise specifications
• Digitalization of supply chains and Logistics 4.0 / 5.0
• Reconfigurable manufacturing systems
• Humans-Systems integration in Industry 4.0 and 5.0 environments
• Ethics of autonomous intelligent systems
• Use-cases and experiments related to Industry 4.0/5.0
• Effects of New technologies from Industry 4.0/5.0 on decision-making

Paper Submission

Papers must be submitted via the Submission menu of the SOHOMA’25 website for any of the above topics or for the Special Sessions defined for this Workshop. The paper content must be an original work written in English, not published or being considered elsewhere. Papers are limited to 12 pages formatted in the Springer Book format for Studies in Computational Intelligence according to the instructions given at https://www.springer.com/series/7092.

All papers accepted and duly presented at the Workshop will be included in the SOHOMA 2025 post conference Proceedings volume published in the Springer series “Studies in Computational Intelligence” (TBC), indexed in the Scopus, DBLP Computer Science and WoS databases. Selected, extended papers will be proposed for publication in special issues of journals representative for the workshop’s domain.

Ethical Conduct for Peer Review

Authors are expected to follow standard ethical conduct for peer review. In particular:

• Plagiarism in any form is forbidden.
• Any form of collusion, whether explicit or tacit (e.g., where authors cooperate with reviewers or SOHOMA’s committees members to obtain favorable or unfavorable reviews) is forbidden
• Advertising work (e.g., in a talk, on social media) as being under submission to SOHOMA during the review period is forbidden.

Plagiarism and use of Generative AI

Authors must take full responsibility for all content in their paper, including any content generated by AI tools that might be construed as plagiarism or scientific misconduct. Authors are allowed to use generative AI tools such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist in writing or research but LLMs are not eligible for authorship. We encourage authors to explain any notable ways in which these tools were used in their research methodology. A global verification of plagiarism and self-plagiarism will be conducted on each submission all along the review process.

Important Dates

• Proposals of Special Sessions:   March 28, 2025
• Full paper submission:   May 16, 2025
• Notification of acceptance/Rejection:   June 13, 2025
• Final camera-ready paper submission:  July 11, 2025
• Early registration and fee payment:  July 18, 2025
• SOHOMA 2025 Workshop   October 02-03, 2025