Dear Colleague(s),
Please mark your calendar and distribute this Call for Papers as widely as possible to your colleagues and friends interested in Enterprise Modelling, Specification and Integration. You should also consider presenting your work to the Workshop or organize a working group. And then come and join us, and don't forget your skis !
With best regards.
The Organizing Committee
---------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * C A L L F O R P A P E R S * * * * * * III M M SSSS EEEE 9999 4 * * I MM MM SS E 9 9 4 4 * * I M M M SS EEE == 9999 4444 * * I M M SS E 9 4 * * III M M SSSS EEEE 9999 4 * * * * * * European Workshop on * * Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE'94), * * Grenoble, France, December 12-14, 1994 * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Organized by INRIA and co-sponsored by EC DG III ESPRIT CIME, IFIP WG 5.7, IFAC, Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche (France), GSIP, ENSGI (Industrial Engineering High School of Grenoble).
At a time when most industrial companies must lean their management and manufacturing operations and increase the efficiency of their day-to-day business processes, many enterprises face a crucial need for advanced systems engineering tools and methods. Existing and/or new systems must be formally modelled, analysed, specified and prototyped as part of the engineering or re-engineering process. This happens at various levels of details and from different angles or viewpoints. Then, operations can be integrated on the basis of these models.
It is therefore necessary to provide the European industry with tools and techniques for modelling, analysis and specification of modern manufacturing systems. However, in order to avoid duplication of efforts, incompatible solutions or out of the scope solutions, IT users and IT vendors should define a consensus on IT requirements for integrated manufacturing systems engineering so that IT solutions (tools and techniques) meet true industry requirements.
Objectives: ----------- The aim of the Workshop is to gather European experts from industry, academia and governments - to establish the current state of understanding on theoretical results, models, techniques and tools for manufacturing systems modelling, specification, evaluation and integration; - to identify and prioritize areas (theoretical or technical) requiring urgent research advances according to real industrial needs; - to discuss the role of Information Technology (IT) in design and manufacturing; - to identify and discuss standardisation needs for integrated manufacturing; - to progress towards a European consensus on enterprise modelling and integration technology so that future developments can be part of a comprehensive plan of action to improve competitiveness of European industry, including SMEs.
Targeted Audience: ------------------ The Workshop is targeted to managers and engineers from manufacturing enterprises and service companies concerned with business process engineering or reorganisation, manufacturing sytem design and analysis as well as enterprise integration. Contributors and invited speakers will come from academia, industrial companies or consulting companies involved in manufacturing system modelling, analysis, specification, evaluation and integration. Strong participation from contributors to EC-funded programmes (ESPRIT, BRITE, EUREKA) and large projects (such as the AIT Initiative) is expected. Participation from East-European countries is encouraged.
Technical Areas: ---------------- The Workshop will be organised according to three major tracks:
o Track 1: Manufacturing Enterprise Modelling and Engineering (Coordinators: Prof. S.K. Banerjee and Dr. F. Vernadat) - Enterprise modelling frameworks and methodologies - Business process modelling and analysis - Business process re-engineering and simplification - Management of change; Process improvement; Impact on Concurrent Engineering - Business process coordination; Model-based operations - Computer-Aided Enterprise Engineering tools - Metrics and benchmarking
o Track 2: Manufacturing System Specification and Evaluation (Coordinators: Dr. J-M. Proth and Dr. A.E.K. Sahraoui) - Specification methods (Petri nets, statecharts, process algebras) - Analysis techniques - Formal specification techniques; Concurrent languages - Agent-oriented languages - System prototyping - Synthesis of control programs - Performance evaluation methods and tools - Performance indicators - Advanced decision support systems
o Track 3: Manufacturing Systems Integration (Coordinators: K. Kosanke and Prof. G.H. Weston) - Open systems architectures; Distributed computing environments - Communication networks and protocols; Integration platforms - Information sharing; Information infrastructure systems - Concurrent Engineering platforms - Cooperative systems; Agent-based architectures - Product/process data exchange methods and standards
Operational issues: ------------------- The number of participants will be limited to 100 and parallel sessions will be avoided. Each day will start with an invited talk (45 mn) followed by technical sessions for regular paper presentation. Enough time will be reserved for technical discussions on selected topics controlled by a moderator (1 hr). Working group meetings (2hrs) on specific topics identified during technical discussions will be held each day. A closing session with reports from working groups will conclude the meeting. It is planned that the Workshop will be followed by a two-day standardization meeting of CEN/TC 310/WG1 working on enterprise modelling.
Proceedings and post-conference book: ------------------------------------- All papers duely reviewed and selected for the Workshop will be published in the form of soft bound proceedings edited by INRIA and made available to Workshop participants. A second selection will be made after the Worshop for publication of revised papers as well as reports of working group meetings in a book printed by one of the major scientific publishers (Elsevier or Chapman & Hall).
Instructions to Authors: ------------------------- All papers must be in English, typed in double spaced format and may not exceed 6000 words. Each submission should provide author(s)' name, affiliation, complete address and phone and fax numbers. Three copies of the papers must be submitted to the Workshop Secretariat no later than 15 July 1995 (imperative date).
Workshop Secretariat: --------------------- Mrs. M. Joyaux (IMSE'94 Secretariat) GSIP/INPG 46, avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble Cedex, France Tel.: +33 76 57 48 32 Fax.: +33 76 57 47 93
Deadlines: ---------- Session/Working group proposals: 30 June 1994 Paper submission: 15 July 1994 Notification to authors: 15 September 1994 Final papers (camera-ready): 31 October 1994
WORKSHOP COMMITTEES -------------------
General Chairman: Dr. F. Vernadat (F)
Organizing Committee: Chaired by Prof. P. Ladet (F) Prof. S.K. Banerjee (UK), Prof. P. Jaulent (F), K. Kosanke (D), Dr. G.T. Nguyen (F), Dr. J-M. Proth (F), Dr. A.E.K Sahraoui (F), Dr. F. Vernadat (F), Prof. R.H. Weston (UK)
Scientific Committee: Chaired by Prof. J.C. Wortmann (NL) Prof. A. Artiba (B), Prof. J. Browne (IRL), Mr. C. Bussler (D), Prof. E. Canuto (I), Prof. A. Carrie (UK), Prof. M. Didic (D), Prof. A. Di Leva (I), Prof. G. Doumeingts (F), Prof. E. Eloranta (F), Prof. W. Eversheim (D), Mr. W. Gielingh (NL), E. Habers (EC/DG III), Prof. A Janiak (PL), Prof. P. Kopacek (A), Prof. Kwikkers (NL), Prof. P. Lecocq (B), Prof. Marques dos Santos (P), Dr. I. Mezgar (H), Prof. Mulkens (CH), Prof. A. Puente (SP), Prof. U. Rembold (D), Prof. M. Rodd (UK), Prof. A. Rolstadas (N), Prof. W-A. Scheer (D), Prof. M. Silva (SP), Prof. R. Soenen (F), Prof. T. Vamos (H), Prof. M. Veron (F), Prof. A. Villa (I), Dr. C. Wehenkel (Lux), Prof. D.J. Williams (UK)
Industrial Committee: Chaired by B. Girard (F) R. Brulz (D), F. Cachard (F), G. Drossopoulos (G), Mrs. M. Goldsztejn (F), G. Guilbert (F), F.M. Hagemann (D), Dr. J. Koenig (D), M. Koethe (D), F. Naccari (I), M. Schemmer (D), G. Segarra (F), D. Shorter (UK), Dr. H. Soboll (D), A. Vasino (I), P. Volpert (F)
________________________________________________________________________ Francois B. Vernadat INRIA Rhone-Alpes 46, avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble Cedex, France
mail: vernadat@imag.fr or Francois.Vernadat@inria.fr Tel.: +33 76 63 57 47 Fax: +33 76.44.66.75 ________________________________________________________________________