Ph.D. in Automation at CRAN (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France). My research is concerned with distributed decision-making systems applied to production planning and control problems. This class of systems can supports Strategic, Tactical, Operational, Control or Execution decision levels. These systems use a high-technology structure and a cooperation-based organisation implemented by intelligent entities with both, physical and information-based components. The objective of my research in this domain, is the design and implementation of fully or semi-autonomous decision systems, showing properties such self-organisation and self-adaptation improving systems flexibility.Thesis: “A generic modelling and optimisation framework for decentralised logistic decisions in product-driven manufacturing systems”.Keywords: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Intelligent Products, Holonic Manufacturing Systems, Production Planning and Control, Agent Based Systems, Combinatorial Optimisation, Cybernetics.