FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract due date extended to February 1, 1997.
ISPE/CE97, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, is a major forum for the international scientific exchange of multi-disciplinary and inter- organizational aspects of concurrent engineering (CE). The focus is on the use of integrated enterprise processes, collaborative work, information sharing, co-locating resources, and integrated frameworks and tools. This conference addresses research and applications issues of CE. This information is available at Web page:
http://www.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/ISPE/CE97.htm
CE97 is sponsored by International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications (CERA Journal), the International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). CE97 is hosted by Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA. Sponsorships from Chrysler, other professional and Industrial organizations are being sought..
Topics of Interest: Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all life-cycle areas of product design, engineering and manufacturing, including, but not limited to:
Planning & Scheduling in CE :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 in CE :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 in CE : 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.
Teaming and Sharing in CE: 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 in CE :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 of CE :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 in CE :Conflict Resolution Techniques, Constraint Management, Negotiation. Blackboard and Agent-based architecture, Corporate Technical Memory.
Practical applications of CE :Practical solutions, systematic guidelines, pitfalls and success stories, case studies, lessons learned, etc.
Timetable: Authors should submit a full draft paper or extended abstract, not exceeding 10 single spaced pages, to the conference General Chair, no later than February 1, 1997 (preferably by E-mail in plain ASCII or PostScript). Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) on or before February 28, 1997. Final camera-ready versions of the papers must be received by April 15, 1997. The format is the same as the CERA Journal.
Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings will be published by Technomic Publishing Corporation as a part of a CE series entitled " Advances in CE " with official congress catalog (ISSN) number. Selected expanded papers will be reviewed for inclusion in a special issue of the international journal, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application (CERA). For Information about CERA Journal, write to: CERA Managing Editor, Dr. Biren Prasad , Director, CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, USA. Tel: (810) 696-5487/ Fax: (810) 661-8333, Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com
Conference General Chair:
Dr. Subra Ganesan, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, U.S.A. E-Mail: ganesan@oakland.edu, Tel: (810) 370 2206, Fax: (810) 370 4625
International Co-chair
Dr. Pravir K. Chawdhry School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U K E-Mail: P.K.Chawdhry@bath.ac.uk Tel: +44 (1225) 826956, Fax: +44 (1225) 826928
Conference Program Chair: Dr. Shuichi Fukuda, Department of Production, Information and System Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, 6-6, Ashaigaoka, Hino, Tokyo, Japan, Tel: +81-425-83-5111, Fax: +81 425 83-5119 , email: fukuda@mgbfu.tmit.ac.ip Tutorial Chair: Dr. Biren Prasad Director, CERA Institute, EDS, P.O.Box: 250 254, West Bloomfield, MI 48322-0254, USA Phone: 810 696 5487. Fax: 810 661 8333 Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com
Program Co-Chair ( Planning and Scheduling in CE)
Dr. P.M.(Nel) Wognum, School of Management Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands, P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands email: p.m.wognum@sms.utwente.nl
Program Co-Chairs ( Collaborative Decision Making in CE) Dr. V. "Juggy" Jagannathan Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, P. O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 USA. E-Mail: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Telephone: (304) 293-7226, Fax: (304) 293-7541
Dr. Willem G. Knoop, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Jaffalaan 9, NL-2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 -15-2784546/3034. Fax: +31 -15-2787316 Email: W.G. Knoop@io.tudelft.NL
Program Co-Chair ( Networking and Distribution in CE) Dr. A. Gunasekaran Senior Lecturer in Production/Operations Management Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Systems Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK Ph: +44 1895 274 000 Ext 2634 or +44 1895 235 790(direct); Fax: +44 1895 812 556 email: A.Gunasekaran@brunel.ac.uk or emstagu@brunel.ac.uk
Program Co-Chair ( Time Sharing in CE) Dr. J. Favrel GRASP / LISPI, INSA de Lyon, Informatique - 502 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France E-Mail: jfavrel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Telephone: +33-72438485, Fax: +33-72438518
Program Co-Chairs ( Information Modeling in CE) Dr. Anthony J. Gadient SCRA, 5300 International Blvd., N. Charleston, SC 29418, USA. E-Mail: gadient@scra.org Telephone: (803) 760-4357, Fax: (803) 760-3349 Dr Mark Sh. Levin The University of Aizu, Fukushima, 965-80, Japan Email: mark@u-aizu.ac.jp
Program Co-Chair ( Reasoning and Negotiation in CE) Dr. Mark Klein Information Systems Department, The Applied Research Lab, Pennsylvania State University, State Collage PA 16804-0030, USA Email: klein@quark.arl.psu.edu Phone: 814 863 5381. Fax: 814 863 7841
Program Co-Chair ( Reasoning and Negotiation in CE) Dr Walter Hower Department of Computer Science University College Cork National University of Ireland Western Rd, Cork, Republic of Ireland email: walter@cs.ucc.ie Ph: +353-21-90-3/084; fax: +353-21-90-3/113 Program Co-Chair ( Practical application of CE) Dr. David A Baker, Manager, Lockheed Martin, Tactical Aircraft Systems, P.O.Box 748 Fort Worth, TX 76101 Email: david.a.baker@lmco.com Phone: 817 777 2249. Fax: 817 763 2495
Program Co-Chair ( Practical application of CE) Dr Keith Hampson Director of Research School of Construction Management Queensland University of Technology 2 George Street, Brisbane Qld 4000 Australia Ph: +61 7 3864 2288; Fax: +61 7 3864 1170 email: k.hampson@qut.edu.au
Program Co-Chair ( Organization and Management of CE) Dr. Gopal Krishnan Industrial Engineering Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 E-Mail: gopal@faculty.coe.wvu.edu Telephone: (304) 293-4607*709, Fax: (304) 293-????
Program Co-Chair ( Data Exchange) Dr. Rogerio Almeida Barra Instituto De Automacao, Dundacao Centro Technologico para Informatica Rod D. Pedro I- Km 143.6 13081 970, Campinas, SP, Brazil. Email: barra@ia.cti.br Phone: +55 19 240 1011. Fax: +55 19 240 3029
Panel Session Chair: Dr. George Dodd Director, Michigan Center for Automotive Research, Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309, USA. Email: dodd@oakland.edu Phone: (810) 370 2231. Fax: 810 370 4261.
ISPE Representative: Dr. Marek Zaremba, University of Quebec, Canada Dr. Gopalakrishnan, Western Virginia University, Morgantown, WV USA. Session Committee members Dr. Rainer Heger, Inst Arbeitswirtschaft und Organization, Nobel Stasse, D 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Ph: +49 (0) 711 /970 2186; Fax: 970 2299 emaiL: Hager@iao.fhg.de
Dr. K.S. Chin Dept. Manufacturing, City Univ of Hong Kong Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong Email: mekschin2cityu.edu.hk Ph: 852 2788 8306; Fax: 2788 8423 Mr. Kasi Nath, Manager, Engineering and Development MascoTech Forming Technology Braun Glendale, Detroit, MI 48223 email: nath@mich.com Ph: (313) 270 1770; Fax: (313) 270 1790
Dr. Dave Buttgen Lockheed Martin, TActical Aircraft Systems Process definition and Design Modelling and Simulation, P.O.Box: 748, Fort Worth Mail Zone: 6833 Tx: 76101; email: buttgendd@lwfc.lockheed.com
Prof. Guangleng Xiong Chief Engineer, CIMS Engineering Research Center Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084, P.R.China
Dr. Yuyun Zhang The National CIMS Engg Research Center Tsinghua Univ., Beijing 100084, China Email: yyhang@sparc2.cims.tsinghua.edu.cn Ph: 86 10 625 641 79; Fax: 86 10 625 681 84
Dr. Pavel G. Ikonomov, Div of systems and Information Engineering, Hokkaido Univ., Kita -13 Nishi-8, Saporo 060, Japan email: pavel@hupe.hokudai.ac.jp
Dr. Yuh-Min Chen Computer-Aided Concurrent Engineering Research Lab. (CACERL) Institute of Manufacturing Engineering National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan 70101 Republic of China Ph: 011-886-6-2757575 ext. 63922; Fax: 011-886-6-2085334 Email: ymchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Dipl. -Ing. Rainer Heger, Fraunhofer Inst. Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Nobelstrasse 12, D 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Ph: +49 (0) 711 /970 2186; Fax: 970 2299 email: rainer.heger@iao.fhg.de
Dr Noureddine Belkhatir Imag - L.S.R. S/W Eng. Adele Team Actimart Bat 8 - Avenue de Vignate 38610 Gieres, France Ph: (+33) 476633463 ; Fax: (+33) 476633458
Dr Joseph D'Ambrosio GM R&D Center 480-106-104 Warren,MI 48090-9055 Ph: (810) 986-0191; email: jdambros@gmr.com URL: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/jdambros Michael C Holmes Manager, CAD/CAM Design Office Chrysler Corporation 800 Chrysler Drive East, Auburn Hills MI 48326-2757 Ph: (810) 576-1202; Fax: (810) 576-2048 Dr Gopalan Mukundan Senior Systems Development Engineer Product Design Office, Chrysler Corporation 800 Chrysler Drive East, Auburn Hills MI 48326-2757 Ph: (810) 576-1303; Fax: (810) 576-2048 email: gm41@chrysler.com
Those, who would like to serve on the conference committee as representative should contact Dr. Subra Ganesan at the above address. The session organizing committee is being expanded. Those interested to organize CE sessions related to one or more of the above specialty areas and wish to chair or co-chair sessions should contact Dr. George Dodd or Dr. Subra Ganesan.
A current version of a CE97call for papers is available at:
http://www.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/ISPE/CE97.htm
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