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The 4th International Conference on Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing 2000
November 15-17, 2000 Melbourne, Australia
Sponsored by:
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP WG 5.3 Computer Aided Manufacturing IFIP WG 5.7 Production Engineering IFIP WG 5.12 Architectures for Enterprise Integration National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
SCOPE
The availability of effective global communication facilities in the last decade has changed the business goals of many manufacturing enterprises. They need to remain competitive by developing products and processes which are specific to individual requirements, completely packaged and manufactured globally to make best use of scarce global resources. Networks of enterprises are formed to operate across time and space with world-wide distributed functions of manufacturing, sales, customer support, engineering, quality assurance, project management, supply and process chain management, operations control and so on. Research and technology development is addressing architectures, methodologies, models, tools and services enabling the symbiosis of information and communication infrastructure and the business functions for intra- and inter-enterprise planning, operation and management. Throughout an integrated life cycle of products and enterprises there is the requirement to transform information sourced from globally distributed offices and partners, into knowledge, useful for decision and action.
CONFERENCE THEMES
Building on the success of the first three DIISM conferences (Tokyo, 1993, Eindhoven, 1996, Fort Worth, 1998), this conference will further elaborate on the:
Establishment and management of the dynamics of inter and intra-enterprises for the support of global manufacturing and engineering; Simultaneous development and deployment of information management in multi-cultural systems, assuring universal applicability of the proposed architecture and solutions for globally operating manufacturing companies; Modeling and co-ordination of information system requirements and development of solutions for virtual enterprises; Enterprise integration architectures, methodologies and information infrastructure support for reconfigurable enterprises; Information infrastructure and intelligent manufacturing systems: how information - in globally distributed enterprise networks - is transformed into knowledge for decision and action by machine and skillful people; Design and configuration of models for extended enterprises and product life cycles, and incorporating global inter-enterprise manufacturing requirements; Definition of intra- and inter- enterprises information infrastructure services.
The conference program will leave much room for discussion and exchange of views. The conference is also a meeting place for new initiatives for collaborative work between research and practice.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
The objective of the conference is to extend the understanding and agreement about design methods, modeling languages, reference frameworks, services and architectures for information infrastructure systems for global manufacturing. Some specific goals are:
to exchange views and developments in the area of global manufacturing with functions crossing company boundaries to compare and evaluate enterprise integration architectures, modeling methods and languages that support better understanding of the information infrastructure requirements for global manufacturing to expand enterprise and product models such that these can be applied to modeling extended enterprises, enterprise networks and product life cycles to compare and evaluate documented cases in model design, system modeling, architecture and information infrastructure development to summarise experiences from case studies and derive a strategy for developing global infrastructure service designs or implementations to identify targets and requirements for multi-location manufacturing, supply and process chain management, distributed engineering and business functions in a global marketing scenario
TOPICS INCLUDED
Contributions are invited, but not limited to, concepts, theory and applications in the area of:
Enterprise Architectures Supply and process chain management Modeling for inter-enterprises Information interoperability across policy frameworks Frameworks for extended-enterprise process models Product life cycle models Virtual enterprises Virtual manufacturing Generic product and process models and configuration techniques Comparison of frameworks and environments for product and process modeling Harmonization of international standards Multi-agent model execution services Generic information infrastructures, services and interfaces for interflow systems Formal ontologies, information sharing and industrial semiosis Application of web technologies Business-to-business E-commerce infrastructure Partner Interface Process models Remote customer support and system maintenance Concurrent Engineering
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE J. J. Mills (Chairman) Fort Worth USA R. Anderl Darmstadt Germany E. Arai Osaka Japan P. Bernus Brisbane Australia J. Browne Galway Ireland L. M. Camarinha-Matos Monte Caparica Portugal A. Chan Ottawa Canada Y. Chen Beijing China N. Christopher Maryland USA S. Cook Adelaide Australia G. Doumeingts Talence Cedex France R. Elmasri Arlington USA F. G. Filip Bucharest Romania W. H. Gray Oak Ridge USA J. Goossenaerts Eindhoven The Netherlands F. van Houten Enschede The Netherlands F. Kimura Tokyo Japan I. Inoue Kyoto Japan S. Jeganathan Melbourne Australia K. Kosanke Boeblingen Germany A. Kusiak Iowa City USA K. L. Mak Hong Kong China A. Markus Budapest Hungary T. Mansfield Brisbane Australia J. Mathew Melbourne Australia K. Mertins Berlin Germany J. Mize Hong Kong China J. Mo Melbourne Australia K. Mori Ibaraki-ken Japan L. Nemes Melbourne Australia G. Olling Michigan USA L. M. Patnaik Bangalore India H. J. Pels Eindhoven The Netherlands P. Schoensleben Zurich Switzerland J. P. Shewchuk Blacksburg USA D. N. Shorter Pangbourne UK V. Singh Jurong Singapore R. Soenen Valenciennes Cedex France A. Storr Stuttgart Germany M. Takizawa Ishizaka Japan S. T. Tan Hong Kong China P. Valckenaers Heverlee Belgium F. Vernadat Metz Cedex France R. Weston Leicestershire UK T. J. Williams W-Lafayette USA J. C. Wortmann Eindhoven The Netherlands M. Zhou Melbourne Australia
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN L. Nemes CSIRO Australia
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE J. Mo (Chairman) CSIRO P. Bernus Griffith University J. Goossenaerts Eindhoven University of Technology M. Zhou CSIRO
PARTICIPANTS
Participants will include both professionals and academics in the fields of enterprise & product modeling, information infrastructures, manufacturing engineering, and IT suppliers.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Abstracts and full papers should by submitted to:
CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology Locked Bag No. 9, Preston, VIC 3072, Australia Fax: (+61-3) 9662-7851 E-mail: DIISM2000@msa.cmst.csiro.au
Abstracts should be less than one page in length. The abstracts will be reviewed for appropriateness of the content to the conference themes. Abstracts may be submitted via e-mail. Final approval will be based on the full paper submission. Submissions should include five copies of the full paper (8-12 pages), without authors' names and affiliations, and a covering letter with the authors' name(s), affiliation, address, and E-mail of the corresponding author. The author guidelines will be available shortly.
TIMETABLE
March 31, 2000 Abstract due May 31, 2000 Notification of acceptance August 31, 2000 Full paper due
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information on the conference please contact:
CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology Corner of Albert and Raglan Streets, Preston, VIC 3072, Australia Phone: (+61-3) 9662-7716 (Mention DIISM2000) Fax: (+61-3) 9662-7851 E-mail: DIISM2000@msa.cmst.csiro.au WWW: http://www.msa.cmst.csiro.au/DIISM2000
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