José Barbosa has a PhD in automation and computer science from the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis (France) and an MSc in industrial engineering from the Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB). He is a researcher at IPB, where he currently participates in the EU FP7 ARUM project and formerly participated in the EU FP7 GRACE project. He is also an invited professor in IPB’s Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Barbosa has more than 30 papers published in international journals and proceedings of international conferences. His main research topics focus on the development of self-organizing and evolvable manufacturing control architectures following the holonic and multi-agent system paradigms enriched with biologically inspired mechanisms. Dr. Barbosa is also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Industrial Agents. He can be reached at jbarbosa@ipb.pt.