Subject: CFP: Concurrent Engineering '96
CALL FOR PAPERS Concurrent Engineering 96 ========================= Third ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 26-28, 1996
ISPE Concurrent Engineering 96 Conference (ISPE/CE96) is the major forum for the international scientific exchange of research results in the development and application of information technologies and business practices in achieving concurrency and integration in engineering. Submissions of papers are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in Concurrent Engineering. Topics include:
* Planning & Scheduling: Enterprise integration, assessing an organization's readiness, CE process characterization, workflow tracking and management, CE assessment models, planning and scheduling of activities, re-engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises.
* Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative work, team coordination, decision support and design assessment, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure, project & team coordination.
* Information Modeling: Information modeling and simulation, integrated process capture, design intent capture, data version control and management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledge- base management systems, constraints.
* Teaming and Sharing: Information sharing, communication tools, computer-based video and audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail, network-wide sharing of tools, graphical collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability, networked collocation.
* Networking and Distribution: Integrated frameworks, architectures for building CE systems, CE languages & tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration, virtual team support environments, tools for multi-media conference on the networks, distributed computing environment.
* Organization and Management: Principles of CE, emerging standards and practices, life cycle engineering, design for X, integrated product and process development, environmentally conscious manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality.
* Reasoning & Negotiation: Conflict resolution techniques, constraint management, negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architectures, corporate technical memory.
* Practical applications: Practical solutions, systematic guidelines, pitfalls and success stories, case studies, lessons learned, etc.
Best Paper Award ---------------- The Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications journal (Dr. B. Prasad, Ed. bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com) will sponsor an award for the best paper.
CE96 is sponsored by The International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE).
Timetable --------- * 1 February 1996: Paper submissions due. Maximum 10 pages, single spaced, 12 point font. Please submit 4 copies (or postscript file by email) to Program Chair: Dr. M. Sobolewski (address below). Late submissions will be returned unopened. * 1 April 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection sent to authors. * 1 May 1996: Camera-ready copy of accepted papers due.
Further Information ------------------- * Additional information can be found on the World Wide Web: http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/ * Selected papers will be reviewed for inclusion in a special issue of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application. * Conference proceedings will be published by Technomic Pub. Co. * Information on CE94 and CE95 proceedings can be found at http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/
Conference Organization ----------------------- Conference General Chair: Prof. Mark S. Fox Dept. of Industrial Eng., University of Toronto 4 Taddle Creek Road Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, CANADA E-Mail: msf@ie.utoronto.ca Tel: +1-416-978-6823, Fax: +1-416-971-2479 Conference Program Chair: Dr. Michael Sobolewski GE Corporate Research and Development KW Building, Room C276B, P. O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 USA E-Mail: sobol@crd.ge.com Tel: +1-518-387-5150, Fax: +1-518-387-7080
Program Area Chairs ------------------- Enterprise Integration: Dr. Pravir K. Chawdhry, UK Information Modeling: Dr. V. "Juggy" Jagannathan, USA Data Exchange: Dr. Martin Hardwick, USA Collaborative Work Dr. A. Gunasekaran, Australia Reasoning & Negotiation: Dr. Mark Klein, USA Practical Applications: Dr. Anthony J. Gadient, US Planning & Scheduling: Dr. Shuichi Fukuda, Japan Organization & Management: Dr. B. Gopalakrishnan, USA
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