... 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 ... floor is, in general, assigned with one Execution Mediator. 3.3.5 Clustering and Cloning in MetaMorph II Clustering and cloning approaches for manufacturing scheduling were developed during the...