Leitão, PauloMendes, João M.Colombo, Armando W.Restivo, Francisco2010-01-272010-01-272007Leitão, Paulo; Mendes, João M.; Colombo, Armando W.; Restivo, Francisco (2007). Reconfigurable production control systems: beyond ADACOR. In Proceedings of the IFAC Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Workshop (IMS’07). Alicante, Spain.http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1543In the recent evolution of production control systems, the emergence of decentralized systems capable of dealing with the rapid changes in the production environment better than the traditional centralized architectures has been one of the most significant developments. The agent-based and holonic paradigms symbolize this approach, and ADACOR holonic control architecture is a successful example of such a system. In this paper, authors discusses the current challenges and the way to go in the direction of new, reconfigurable, evolvable and ubiquitous systems, able to respond to current production environment demands and variability.engReconfigurable manufacturing controlProduction systemsMulti-agent systemsHolonic manufacturing systemsconference object