pt. I. Industrial agents : concepts and definitions -- Software agent systems -- Industrial agents -- The design, deployment, and assessment of industrial agent systems -- pt. II. Industrial agents : related concepts and technologies -- Industrial agents in the era of service-oriented architectures and cloud-based industrial infrastructures -- Distributed real-time automation and control : reactive control layer for industrial agents -- Industrial agents cybersecurity -- Virtual enterprises based on multiagent systems -- An assessment of the potentials and challenges in future approaches for automation software -- Agent-based control of production systems--and its architectural challenges -- Identification and implementation of agents for factory automation exploiting mechatronical concepts for production system structuring -- pt. III. Industrial agent applications -- Cloud based agent framework for the industrial automation sector -- Multi-agent systems for real-time adaptive resource management -- Large-scale network and service management with WANTS -- Cross-domain energy savings by means of unified energy agents -- A multi-agent system coordination approach for resilient self-healing operations in multiple microgrids -- Multi-agent system for integrating quality and process control in a home appliance production line -- Industrial agents for the fast deployment of evolvable assembly systems -- Automation agents for controlling the physical components of a transportation system -- Intelligent factory agents with predictive analytics for asset management -- A biomimetic approach to distributed maintenance management based on a multi-agent system -- Programming of multiagent applications with JIAC -- pt. IV. A survey on factors that impact industrial agent acceptance -- A survey on factors that impact industrial agent acceptance.