From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Mon Jan 3 13:22:11 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA16650; Mon, 3 Jan 94 13:22:11 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA17873; Mon, 3 Jan 94 13:22:07 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA07582; Mon, 3 Jan 94 11:22:00 PST Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 11:21:58 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CAIA Workshop CFP Reminder Message-Id: PAPERS DUE Jan 14th, 1994 Call for Participation CAIA-94 Workshop on Coordinated Design and Planning Marriott Riverwalk - San Antonio, Texas March 1, 1994 The goal of this workshop is to find common ground among various approaches to the coordination of constructive problem solving--particularly design and planning--among multiple agents. Such approaches include, but are not limited to, DAI, case-based reasoning, constructive problem solving, and multiagent systems. The intent is to discover where these approaches complement and compete. We also wish to discover what parts of the problem space may not yet be covered. Because the terminology among the approaches has not yet been unified, and because many of the reported problems have different characteristics, this workshop uses the tactic of grounding the discussion on a common application example. A meeting scheduling example has been chosen, because it is simple and easily understood without technical jargon. It is also of a ubiquitous problem type: the assignment of resources to tasks within discrete timeframes under constraints. Examples are assigning gates to airplanes, rooms to hotel guests, teachers to courses, and employees to jobs. The meeting scheduling problem also has features common to many cooperative probelems. For instance, each meeting attendee may have goals that conflict with that of the others. While they have the common goal of finding days on which to meet, attendees may have independent reasons to prefer different days. Also, it is assumed that each attendee may have some local calendar or meeting scheduler. Some combination of the attendees and these systems communicate over a wide-area network (WAN), such as the Internet, to solve the meeting scheduling problem. Any number of intermediate software systems, interacting via the WAN, can be posited to facilitate communications and problem solving. Workshop participants are expected to relate their approach to the example by answering in their paper at least the six questions that follow the example. It is not required that the approaches or systems described actually be in use, since it is well-known that scheduling systems are rarely successful in implementation. (Speculation about this fact is invited.) The example was chosen to simply explicate some common features of distributed design and planning problems. The workshop will consist of at most thirty-two (32) participants, each of whom should submit a paper for the working notes. No more than eight (8) papers will be selected for presentation and discussion. Authors will not present their own papers. Instead, the papers will be assigned to eight groups of three nonauthors for presentation and evaluation. Authors will make a short response. A comparison and evaluation of the eight papers will be the subject of a panel discussion. The panel will be also composed of nonauthors, and will attempt to identify where the eight approaches presented compete with or complement each other. ________________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: The Secretaries' Nightmare. Axel, Brigitt, Carl, and Dirk wish to plan two all-day meetings. The scenario is as follows: The meetings must be scheduled on weekdays during April 1994. The first meeting concerns preliminary business agreements among three companies. Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk can each represent their respective three companies' business interests and marketing goals. Carl's company will be a subcontractor to Dirk's company and he need not attend this first meeting. The second meeting is a technical discussion of proposed architectures for the joint project. Carl's attendance is necessary, although Dirk's is not. Axel and Brigitt must attend. Axel is based in New York City, Brigitt in Palo Alto, Carl in Los Angeles, and Dirk in Austin. Travel should be minimized by scheduling two days in a row if possible. The faster the meeting can take place, the better. The meetings can be in either Austin or Los Angeles, but it is preferable for the second meeting to be in Los Angeles because of the availability of a demonstration. If the meetings are back-to-back in the same city, Los Angeles is preferable. Axel is available in April the week of the 4th, the 18th and 19th, and the 25th and 26th. Brigitt is available the 7th, 8th, 19th, and the week of the 25th. Carl is available on the 7th, 19th and 26th. Dirk is available on the 7th, 8th, 18th, and 25th. The best option would be to hold consecutive meetings on the 7th and 8th, but Carl cannot meet on the 8th. The meeting cannot occur on the 18th and 19th because Brigitt is not available on the 18th. One available option is for Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk to meet on the 7th. Then Axel, Brigitt, and Carl can meet on the 19th. Another is for Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk to meet on the 25th and for Axel, Brigitt, and Carl to meet on the 26th. The first option is chosen because it is important to meet as soon as possible and because Dirk and Carl would like to meet between the two meetings if possible. Under this first option, the two meetings can be in different cities. The first meeting will be held in Austin, because it is more central, especially for Axel. The second meeting should be held in Los Angeles because of the demonstration facilities. Under this option, the need for another meeting is generated. Since Carl was not present at the first meeting, Dirk wants to brief Carl to make sure the business decisions are reflected in the technical design. But it turns out that Dirk and Carl cannot get together between the 8th and the 19th. They object to the current plan. But now they also object more strongly to the meetings being held on the 25th and 26th. They push for another option. The current options will be held as backup plans; possibly Dirk and Carl can get by on a phone call. But all participants agree to negotiate to see if anyone will relax their constraints. Each must persuade the others of the importance of their current commitments, but avoid revealing possibly confidential information. Axel declines to make any more days available because he has already made all of the week of the 4th open. Carl and Dirk offer to be available on the 5th and 6th, but Brigitt can make neither meeting because of nonrefundable travel plans. Finally Brigitt offers to cancel another meeting and be available on the 18th. This means that the two meetings can be held back-to-back on the 18th and 19th. Now both meetings will be held in Los Angeles. Then Carl's schedule changes. It turns out he can meet in Austin on the 8th. This means that the separate meeting option is now available - Axel, Brigitt, and Dirk can meet in Austin on the 7th; Dirk and Carl can meet in Austin on the 8th; and Axel, Brigitt, and Carl can meet in Los Angeles on the 19th. This also means that everyone could meet on the 7th and 8th, an even better option. But Axel objects saying that he has already planned another meeting in Los Angeles on the 19th to take advantage of his presence there. He would rather not cancel that meeting. They agree to the separate meeting option so that Brigitt can reschedule the meeting she canceled. Everything works as planned. _____________________________________________________________________ Questions: 1. What parts of the problem does your approach help with and how? 2. Which functions are distributed and which are centralized? 3. What other tools and methodologies do you presume? 4. Do you allow heterogeneous agents, such as different calendar systems, to participate? What changes are required to the systems? 5. What messages, or kinds of messages, are exchanged between your agents? 6. Why is your approach better than email between people? Between systems? _____________________________________________________________________ Workshop Committee Charles Petrie (chair) Center for Design Research Stanford University Bldg. 560, Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305-2232 Michael Huhns J. Marty Tenenbaum MCC EITech 3500 West Balcones Center Dr. 459 Hamilton Avenue Austin, Tx 78759-6509 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Please send papers to Charles Petrie to arrive no later than January 14th, 1994. Notifications will be sent by February 15th. Papers should be no more than ten (10) pages in length. Clarity and specific relevance to the scenario described will be of the utmost importance in paper selection. Electronic submission in PostScript format is encouraged. However, Apple users must beware that their files may be too large to email and even if received may not print. LaTeX submissions are also welcome. But please check with the Chair about style files and included PostScript figures. If you plan to participate in this workshop without registering for the main conference, there will be a $75 fee. This workshop will be repeated at CoopIS-94 in May in Toronto. A book including the best papers from both workshops is planned. From gasser@morue.usc.edu Mon Jan 10 20:46:52 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA06623; Mon, 10 Jan 94 20:46:52 CST Received: from usc.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25449; Mon, 10 Jan 94 20:46:42 CST Received: from morue.usc.edu by usc.edu (4.1/SMI-3.0DEV3-USC+3.1) id AA21211; Mon, 10 Jan 94 18:45:11 PST Received: by morue.usc.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1+ucs-3.6) id AA00507; Mon, 10 Jan 94 17:39:29 PST Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 17:39:29 PST From: gasser@morue.usc.edu (Les Gasser) Message-Id: <9401110139.AA00507@morue.usc.edu> To: king@ics.uci.edu, kling@ics.uci.edu, scacchi@usc.edu, oelsawy@vm.usc.edu, oleary@mizar.usc.edu, siacono@acs.bu.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, ai-ers@isi.edu Cc: gasser@usc.edu Subject: COD Lab Seminar: B. Pentland. 1/20/94 Reply-To: gasser@usc.edu ================================================================ ================================================================ CCCCCCC OOOOOO DDDDDD L AAAA BBBBB CC OO OO D D L AA AA B B C O O D D L A A B B C O O D D L AAAAAA BBBBB C O O D D L A A B B CC OO OO D D L A A B B CCCCCCC OOOOOO DDDDDD LLLLLL A A BBBBB USC/ISSM COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATION DESIGN LAB SEMINAR ================================================================ ================================================================ RELIABLE DESCRIPTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES: COLLECTING DATA FOR A PROCESS HANDBOOK Dr. Brian Pentland Date: 20 January 1994 Place: SSM-118, USC Time: 10:30 AM ABSTRACT: The ability to measure and make comparisons is fundamental to any empirical science. In organization theory, scholars are becoming increasingly concerned with the study of processes, but our empirical techniques lag considerably behind those we have developed for measuring and comparing the properties of static entities. The problem we face is that business processes (or any other kind of process) are essentially sequences of events distributed in time and space; typical business processes can take days or weeks to complete, and they frequently cross organizational or physical boundaries. For these reasons, business processes cannot easily be observed at one point in time or in a single location. Furthermore, business processes are enacted through the use of specialized actions and language that are meaningful to the participants, but may not be easily translated to a common vocabulary for purposes of comparison. These basic features of business processes make their description and comparison a particularly challenging methodological problem. The proposed approach relies on basic techniques of ethnographic interviewing and observation to collect data. These data are then organized into a "process handbook" (Malone, Crowston, Lee and Pentland, 1993) using concepts of decomposition and specialization to create reliable, valid process descriptions that can be used for a variety of purposes: to compare processe; to analyze or redesign existing processes; to design new processes. Speaker: Brian Pentland Graduate School of MAnagement UCLA email: bpentlan@AGSM.UCLA.EDU Host: Les Gasser (213.740.4046, gasser@usc.edu) For directions please call Louise Skura at 213.740.8771, lskura@cod.usc.edu From speyer@mcc.com Tue Jan 11 10:30:53 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA13636; Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:30:53 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA26299; Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:30:50 CST Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA17282; Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:30:47 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA11138; Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:30:46 CST Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:30:46 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9401111630.AA11138@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net, gbibm65b@ibmmail.com Subject: ICEIMT archive update We've created a Web home page for the ICEIMT archive: ftp://ftp.einet.net/iceimt/iceimt-info.html Check it out with your handy Web browser (i.e., Mosaic). It should simplify your access into the archives. Also, I've put the "lost SIG reports" onto the archive. Neither Charles or I have been able to get in the last bit of work to complete and publish them but they are quite worthy even as they stand. You can get them through the Web or if you only have Ftp capability: anonymous login to ftp.einet.net and cd to iceimt/sigsTR. -Bruce From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Tue Jan 11 12:18:49 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA18496; Tue, 11 Jan 94 12:18:49 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA26625; Tue, 11 Jan 94 12:18:43 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA20330; Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:11:29 PST Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 10:11:28 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: share@sunrise.stanford.edu, ext-ei@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CAIA-94 Program and Registration Message-Id: CAIA '94 Advance Program The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications March 1-4, 1994 Marriott Riverwalk San Antonio, Texas Contents: CONFERENCE OVERVIEW WORKSHOP PROGRAM TUTORIAL PROGRAM TECHNICAL PROGRAM CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REGISTRATION INFORMATION HOTEL INFORMATION --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CONFERENCE OVERVIEW For nine consecutive years, the IEEE Computer Society's Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications has provided an international forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences in the application of AI to real-world problems. During this time, CAIA has established itself as a key conference for business and technical people who want to keep up on the fast-changing word of commercial AI. This year, the Tenth annual CAIA will continue that tradition by providing a provocative mix of introductory, intermediate and advanced talks, tutorials, workshops, and panels. In addition, CAIA '94 has strived for a new balance between information of interest to AI researchers and information of interest to business and commercial people. An emerging theme of AI and information systems, including the Internet, reflects this balance. CAIA '94 starts with a full day of workshops and tutorials. The three workshops range from intelligent access to digital libraries, to business process re-engineering, to coordinated design, and will provide a forum for intense communication between researchers and practitioners. The six half-day tutorials will provide succinct but detailed introductions into a variety of AI-related techniques and applications. CAIA '94 continues with three days of technical sessions. Each day starts with one of the following plenary addresses: Shall We Reinvent AI and its Applications? Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University Digital Libraries: Why People use Tools, not AI Ed Fox, Virginia Polytech Angels, Pinheads, and AI Technology Infusion Dr. Melvin Montemerlo, Program Manager for Automation, NASA Headquarters After each plenary address are technical sessions in three tracks: two paper tracks and a panel track. These tracks are designed to be complementary and to appeal to people with different backgrounds. The panels include such topics as "Smart Computers in Space", "AI and Business Applications", and "Intelligent User Interfaces". Finally, CAIA '94 will include many opportunities for informal discussion, including numerous breaks, a banquet and a reception with poster viewing. For registration or general information, contact: CAIA '93 Registration, IEEE Computer Society, Conference Department, 1730 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1992 Voice: 202-371-1013; Fax: 202-728-0884, --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA-94 WORKSHOP PROGRAM MARCH 1, 1994 WORKSHOP 1: TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING The increase in competition, customer awareness, and ever changing business climate coupled with the failure of short-gap solutions (e.g., restructuring/downsizing, diversification, portfolio management, LBO, etc.) has forced many corporations to redesign business process in a fundamentally new way. A business process consists of all activities and agents required from the conceptualization of a product to its delivery to customers and subsequent support. The task of re-engineering is to design the activities themselves and thereby redesign the relationship between the activities and the agents. Information technologies play a central role in the design and implementation of re-engineering solutions. This workshop will bring together leaders, researchers, and developers engaged in designing and delivering re-engineering solutions and share challenges faced and lessons learned. Contact: D.D. Sharma, 3N750FF, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA 95583, 510- 867-2954, dxsharm@pacbell.com WORKSHOP 2: INTELLIGENT ACCESS TO ON-LINE DIGITAL LIBRARIES The rate of information production in our global society is taking place thousands of times faster than our population growth. The linkages of high speed networks, fiberized telephone lines, and large capacity information bases will facilitate creation of digital libraries which are expected to provide many kinds of information. Due to their widely distributed and diversified clientele, these emerging libraries will require intelligent management of information. The purpose of this workshop is to focus on how intelligent data management and intelligent presentation systems will allow better information services to end-users of next generation, mass-scale, robust information architectures. This workshop will attract researchers and designers of on-line digital libraries (DLs) that are being applied to data analysis problems, educational and publication media, and entertainment services. Through a discussion of some generic issues that effect the design of digital libraries, it is the goal of the workshop to produce a reference model of such libraries based on the access, interface, and communication requirements of a small range of application domains. Contact: Zahed Ahmed, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, 619- 534-5105, ahmed@cassatt.sdsc.edu WORKSHOP 3: COORDINATED DESIGN AND PLANNING Many proposals for functionality are being made in the domains of Enterprise Integration (EI) and Concurrent Engineering (CE). At the same time many research claims are being made for distributed agent-based technologies that should apply to these domains. Yet the problem and solution spaces are as yet ill-defined. In this workshop, participants will apply their technologies to a simple problem: distributed meeting scheduling. We believe that this problem is simple enough to permit analysis of the problem and solution spaces, yet complex enough to expose gaps in technologies needed for EI and CE. The best papers from this workshop and a similar one are to be included in a planned book on this subject. Contact: Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Bldg. 560, Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305-2232, 415- 725-0162, petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu * Workshop Description World-Wide Web URL * "http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/people/petrie/caia.html" --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA-94 TUTORIAL PROGRAM MARCH 1, 1994 Tuesday, March 1, 1994, 8:30 - 12:00 noon TUTORIAL 1: SYMBOLIC AND NEURAL-NETWORK APPROACHES TO MACHINE LEARNING Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University This tutorial will survey symbolic and neural-network approaches to machine learning. It will provide an overview of the major topics in the area, and give detailed descriptions of some of the better-known algorithms (e.g., decision-tree methods, perceptrons, backpropagation), presenting them in a single, unified light that highlights their commonalities and relative strengths and weaknesses. After attending the tutorial, participants should understand how to use these methods for their own problems, and be able to understand the main problems, goals, and methods being addressed by researchers today. Further, people already familiar with work in either area will learn about work in the other area and see both areas in a more uniform light. TUTORIAL 2: TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS WITH ADVANCED COMPUTING David Bailey, Bailey Consulting Advanced computing offers organizations an unprecedented opportunity to leverage the use of information technology to solve complex business problems. Many view it to be a key to competitive advantage and process innovation. In order to be effective, advanced computing needs to be applied as part of a visionary information strategy that directly supports and enables the business strategy. This tutorial discusses the state of the software industry and the opportunities provided by advanced computing. It then summaries key advanced computing techniques, characterizing their capabilities, costs, and benefits. Next, a practical problem-driven approach to applying advanced computing within organizations is described. Practical considerations and case studies are then discussed, and the tutorial concludes with a summary of key points. TUTORIAL 3: KNOWLEDGE BASE MANAGEMENT AND ITS APPLICATION Igor Jurisica and Huaiquing Wang, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Knowledge based systems are now routinely used in thousands of "real world" applications. Most such applications involve relatively small knowledge bases, containing hundreds rather than thousands of units (object, rules, frames). Developing the next generation of knowledge based systems will require a technology for building, accessing, and managing very large knowledge bases, with potentially millions of units. Knowledge base management requires new techniques, including efficient implementations of inference mechanisms (terminological subsumption, deduction, induction and abduction), and new tools for knowledge acquisition, knowledge base validation, verification, and maintenance, as well as new architectures that accommodate a multi-user, distributed environment. This tutorial will provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in knowledge base management techniques and commercial tools, as well as recent research results and on-going projects. All of these will be presented from the application point of view and the actual development process of knowledge based applications will be stressed. March 1, 1994, 1:30 - 5:00 pm TUTORIAL 4: PROBABILISTIC REASONING John Lemmer, CTA Incorporated Increasingly applied AI has had to come to grips with the uncertainties inherent in most knowledge applicable to real domains. The focus of this tutorial is how Probabilistic Reasoning fits into applied AI. First, Probability will be brought into sharp focus against a background of applications by considering it a generalization of "if...then" rules of Expert Systems, and compared to Fuzzy Sets, Possibility Logic, Conditional Logic, and Dempster-Shafer Theory, the other principal alternatives to Probability for quantitative management of uncertainty. The comparisons are based not on "good/bad?, but on "different". Then, a number of choices withing Probability are explained and compared, including Bayes Nets, Triangulated Nets, Influence Diagrams, and Causal Models. These choices are discussed in sufficient detail to reveal their different uses and their different implementation strategies. TUTORIAL 5: PUTTING EXPERT SYSTEMS/DBMSs COOPERATION INTO PRACTICE Chihab Hanachi, University Toulouse 1 In many application domains the actual and efficient use of expert systems relies on the proper use of data. Also, expert systems handle large populations of facts, so that accessing and managing the underlying data becomes a complex activity, as important as reasoning itself. It is then essential to use Data Base Management Systems (DBMSs) to guarantee efficient access to the data and appropriate data management (including data coherence, data sharing, and data distribution). This tutorial will help the attendee in the tasks of implementing ES/DBMS integration, in particular with identifying the role of each component, choosing a software architecture, specifying the mechanisms of ES/DBMS communication, and understanding ES/DBMS communication and reasoning efficiency. TUTORIAL 6: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION Angel R. Puerta, Stanford University, and Henrik Eriksson, Linkoping University This tutorial will develop a comprehensive view of the most important principles and practical issues in knowledge acquisition. We will present the theoretical foundations of knowledge acquisition to establish a framework in which the attendee can understand and analyze how the theories are put into practice. We will concentrate on illustrating problems with computer-based knowledge-acquiistion tools, covering examples from early expert systems to the new generation of knowledge-based systems based on reusable knowledge components. Throughout the tutorial, we will emphasize the particular issues, such as human-computer interaction, that affect the design and development of knowledge acquistion tools, and will address the specific tradeoffs created by conflicting design requirements. After the tutorial, the attendee should have a good understanding of the principles and design tradeoffs involved in the construction of knowledge-acquisition tools, a solid background on existing tools, and a clear grasp of the research issues that affect knowledge acquisition. TUTORIAL LECTURER BIOGRAPHIES David Bailey, 7769 Ohio Northern Drive, Lancaster, OH 43130, 614-833- 4127. Mr. Bailey has more than six years of experience of consulting, development, and management experience in advanced computer systems. His background includes the design and development of integrated artificial intelligence applications, project management, tutorial and seminar development and presentation, marketing and sales, and business information problems with a practical mix of advanced and conventional information technology. Henrik Eriksson, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden, her@ida.liu.se. Dr. Eriksson is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Linkoping University in 1991. His dissertation and current work is concerned with computer-based tool support for knowledge acquisition. He is presently a visiting scholar at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. Chihab Hanachi, University Toulouse 1, Place Anatole France, 31042 Toulouse Cedex, France, 33-61-63-35-60, hanachi@cix.cict.fr. Dr. Hanachi is an Associated Professor at the University of Toulouse I in France, and received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toulouse III. He has worked in the area of cooperation between expert systems and database management systems for five years and has published many papers in this area. Haym Hirsh, Computer Science Department, Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, 908-932-4176, hirsh@cs.rutgers.edu. Dr. Hirsh's is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he conducts research and teaches courses in artificial intelligence and machine learning. His graduate research at Stanford, from which he received his MS and PhD degrees, was in machine learning, and his current research includes applications of machine learning in molecular biology and in yacht design. Igor Jurisica, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S1A4, Canada, 416-978-7589, juris@ai.utoronto.ca. Mr. Jurisica is a member of the knowledge base management group at Toronto, a five-year effort in functionality and performance issues for knowledge base management headed by Prof. John Mylopoulos. His thesis work is on the representation and management issues for case-based reasoning systems. John Lemmer, Rome Laboratory/C3CA, 525 Brooks Road, Griffiss AFB, NY, 13441, 315-330-3665, lemmer@ai.rl.af.mil. Dr. Lemmer received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1976 and is a Senior Scientist at CTA Incorporated. He has been the principal investigator for a number of multi-million dollar R&D contracts, including AFES (Automated Feature Extractions Systems), MRS3 (the predecessor to JSTARS), and DATA (Decision Aids for Target Aggregation), some of which involved embedded expert systems, probabilistic reasoning, and causal modelling. Angel R. Puerta, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Medical Computer Science Group, Stanford University, MSOB X215, Stanford, CA 94305, Pueta@camis.stanford.edu. Dr. Puerta is a Research Scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina in 1990. His dissertation topic and current research interests include knowledge acquisition, intelligent interfaces, and the construction of knowledge- based systems from reusable knowledge components. Huaiquing Wang, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S1A4, Canada, 416-987-7330, wang@ai.utoronto.ca. Dr. Wang received his PhD in artificial intelligence and computer vision from the University of Manchester and has been a research scientist in the AI group at Toronto since 1988. His current research interests include the application of knowledge-based and database systems, object-oriented cooperative environments, knowledge sharing, and integration of these systems. --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA-94 TECHNICAL PROGRAM MARCH 2-4, 1994 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1994 8:30 - 8:45 AM CAIA '94 WELCOME ADDRESS Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California 8:45 - 10:00 INVITED PLENARY TALK: Shall We Reinvent AI and its Applications? Edward A. Feigenbaum, Professor of Computer Science and Scientific Co-director of the Knowledg Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca. 10:00 - 10:30 am Break 10:30 - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: CAD/VLSI APPLICATIONS Session Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California On the Solution of Layout Problems in Multiagent Systems: A Preliminary Report, Johannes Stein CASTOR: an Expert Advisor for Testability Enhancement of VLSI Systems, G. Bezzi, C. Bolchini, M. Bombana, G. Buonanno, S. Cantu, P. Cavalloro, D. Sciuto, G. Zaza An Intelligent Control Shell for CAD Tools, Satoru Fujita, Motohide Otsubo, Masanobu Watanabe Heuristic Classification of Cells in Logic Electronic Specifications, Salvador Mir, Nicholas P. Filer PAPER SESSION: SCHEDULING Session Chair: Loren Terveen, AT&T Bell Laboratories AUTO-MPS: An Automated Master Production Scheduling System For Large Volume Manufacturing, R. Greg Arbon, Gregory G. Mally, Thomas W. Osborne, Paul R. Riethmeier Learning Control Knowledge through Cases in Schedule Optimization Problems, Kazuo Miyashita, Katia Sycara On the Design of an Adaptive Meeting Scheduler, Sandip Sen, Edmund H. Durfee Distributed, Knowledge-based, Reactive Scheduling of Transporation Tasks, Klaus Fischer, Norbert Kuhn, Jorg P. Muller PANEL SESSION: MODELLING FINANCIAL MARKETS WITH NEURAL NETS AND OTHER NON-LINEAR TECHNIQUES Chair: Ganesh Mani, LBS Capital Management, Inc. Panelists: TBA 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: CASE-BASED APPLICATION Session Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Inductive Learning of Prototype-Selection Rules for Case-Based Iterative Design, Mark Schwabacher, Haym Hirsh, Thomas Ellman A Case-Based Design Aid for Conceptual Design of Aircraft Subsystems, Eric A. Domeshek, Marcia F. Herndon, Andrew W. Bennett, Janet L. Kolodner Spatial Design of Complex Artifacts Using Cases, Ian F. C.Smith, Boi V. Faltings Automated Schema Selection in Software Synthesis, Michael Hewett, Rattikorn Hewett PAPER SESSION: NEURAL NETS AND MACHINE LEARNING Session Chair: David Waltz, NEC Research Institute Modeling the Behavior of the S&P 500 Index: A Neural Network Approach, Mary Malliaris Neural Network based Multisensor Multitarget Tracking, V. Schmidlin, G. Favier Using Machine Learning to Monitor Network Performance, Raguram Sasisekharain, V. Seshadri, Sholom M. Weiss EEL: An Information Theoretic Similarity-based Learning Method in Databases, Changhwan Lee PANEL SESSION: AI AND BUSINESS Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Panelists: David Leinweber Mallory Selfridge, University of Connecticut others TBA 3:00 - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 - 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: OFFICE APPLICATIONS Session Chair: Louis Hoebel, Rome Laboratory, USAF Learning Contextual Rules for Document Understanding, Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Giovanni Semeraro Interactive Constraint Satisfaction for Office Systems, Megumi Ishii, Yutaka Sasaki, Shigeo Kaneda Intelligent Validation and Routing of Electronic Forms in a Distributed Environment, Michael M. Compton, Shawn Wolfe PAPER SESSION: DIVERSE TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS Session Chair: Christopher Welty, RPI Predictive Analysis System: A Case Study of AI Techniques for Counternarcotics, Myriam Abrahamson, Scott Bennett, William Brooks, Emily Hofmann, Paul Krause, Aaron Temin Using Hybrid Knowledge Bases for Missile Siting Problems, John R. Benton, V. S. Subrahmanian Integrating Case-Based Reasoning, Knowledge-Based Approach and Dijkstra Algorithm for Route Finding, Bing Liu, Siew-Hwee Choo, Shee- Ling Lok, Sing-Meng Leong, Soo-Chee Lee, Foong-Ping Poon, Hwee-Har Tan From System Requirements to Appropriate Knowledge Representations: A Case Study, Markus Stolze PANEL SESSION: INTEGRATING AI TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS: CASE STUDIES, ISSUES, AND METHODS Chair: Louis Hoebel, Rome Laboratory, USAF Panelists: Michael DeBellis, Andersen Consulting Marie Bienkowski, SRI Bob Neches, USC/ISI 6:30 - 8:00 Banquet --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1994 8:45 - 10:00 am INVITED PLENARY TALK: Angels, Pinheads, and Artificial Intelligence Technology Infusion, Dr. Melvin Montemerlo, Program Manager for Automation and Robotics, NASA Headquarters 10:00 - 10:30 am break 10:30 - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Session Chair: John Yen, Texas A&M University Automatic Computation of Genetic Risk, Dhiraj K. Pathak, Mark W. PerlinMark W. Perlin Roentgen: Radiation Therapy and Case-based Reasoning, Jeffrey Berger A Study of an Expert System for Interpreting Human Walking Disorders, Tom Bylander, Michael Weintraub, Sheldon R. Simon OaSiS: Integrating Safety Reasoning for Decision Support in Oncology, Peter Hammond PAPER SESSION: NATURAL LANGUAGE Session Chair: TBA A Tool for the Acquisition of Japanese-English Translation Rules Using Inductive Machine Learning Techniques, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takefumi Yamazaki, Akio Yokoo, Shigeo Kaneda Memory-based Parsing with Parallel Marker-Passing, Minhwa Chung, Dan Moldovan Application of Explanation-based Learning for Efficient Processing of Constraint-based Grammars, Gunter Neumann Learning Natural Language Filtering Under Noisy Conditions, Stefan Wermter PANEL SESSION: AI AND MANUFACTURING Chair: Oliver Vadas, Canadian Pulp and Paper Institute 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: MANUFACTURING AND MODELLING Session Chair: Oliver Vadas, Canadian Pulp and Paper Institute Generating Programs from Connections of Physical Models, Gordon S. Novak Jr. A Blackboard Approach to the Integration of Crankshaft Analysis Applications, Daniel J. Fagan Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Objects in Motion: Applications to Physics Problem Solving, Raman Rajagopalan, Benjamin Kuipers Target Design: A Method for an Accurate Pose Determination, Agus Harjoko, Bernd J. Kurz PAPER SESSION: EXPLANATION Session Chair: Marie Bienkowski, SRI A Cooperative Model for Interactive Plan Explanation, Susan M. Haller Model-based Explanation of Specifications for Sequence Control, Satoshi Ito, Yasuko Nakayama, Yasuo Namioka, Hiroyuki Mizutani Automatic Generation of Explanations for Spreadsheet Applications, Daniele Nardi, Giuseppe Serrecchia MeteoAssert: Generation and Organization of Assertions from Gridded Data, Stephan Kerpedjiev PANEL SESSION: SMART COMPUTERS FOR SPACE Chair: Carol Redfield, Southwest Research Institute Panelists: Wes Regian, PhD., Brooks Air Force Base Mel Montemerlo, Ph.D., NASA Headquarters Bob Savely, NASA Johnson Space Center Nancy Sliwa, NASA Kennedy Space Center 3:00 - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 - 5:00 Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: DIVERSE APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES Session Chair: Vasant Dhar, NYU Redesign of Local Area Networks Using Similarity-based Adaptation, Michael Weiss, Frank Zeyer Genetic Algorithms for Partitioning Air Space, Daniel Delahaye, Jean- Marc Alliot, Marc Schoenauer, Jean-Loup Farges, EAGOL: An Artificial Intelligence System for Process Monitoring, Situation Assessment and Response Planning, Harry E. Pople, William E. Spangler, Martha T. Pople An Application of Belief Networks to Future Crop Production Yiqun Gu, James W. McNicol, D. Ramanee Peiris, Bruce Marshall, John Crawford PAPER SESSION: EXPERT SYSTEMS Session Chair: Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University Concept Formation using ITERATE: Building Rule Models for Efficient Reasoning, Gautam Biswas, Gyesung Lee A Neural Network Expert System Shell, Tong-Seng Quah, Chew-Lim Tan Optimization of Rule-Based Expert Systems Via State Transition System Construction, Blaz Zupan, Albert Mo Kim Cheng Dependency Analysis for Knowledge Validation in Rule-based Expert Systems, Chih-Hung Wu, Hung-Sen Chou, Shie-Jue Lee PANEL SESSION: MACHINE AND MACHINE-ASSISTED TRANSLATION Chair: Phil Hayes, Carnegie Group Panelists: TBA 6:30 - 8:00 - Reception and Poster Viewing --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1994 8:45 - 10:00 AM INVITED PLENARY TALK: Digital Libraries: Why People use Tools, not Artificial Intelligence Ed Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 am - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: BIOLOGY APPLICATIONS Session Chair: TBA Integration of Multiple Knowledge Sources in an Brain CT-scans Interpretation System, Hongyi Li Using Machine Learning and Expert Systems to Predict Preterm Delivery in Pregnant Women, Michele M. Van Dyne, Linda K. Woolery, Jerzy Grzmala-Busse, Costas Tsatsoulis Using Background Knowledge to Improve Inductive Learning of DNA Sequences, Haym Hirsh, Michiel Noordewier Automatic Classification of Planctonic Foraminifera by a Knowledge- Based System, Shan Liu, Monique Thonnat, Marc Berthod PAPER SESSION: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES Session Chair: TBA Using Causal Reasoning to Validate Stochastic Models, Arun Chandra, C.-L. Wu, J. A. Abraham COCOS - A Tool for Constraint-Based, Dynamic Configuration, Markus Stumptner, Alois Haselbock, Gerhard Friedrich Subsumption and Recognition of Heterogeneous Constraint Networks, Robert Weida, Diane Litman Managing Large Temporal Delays in a Model Based Control System, Fano Ramparany PANEL SESSION: INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES Chair: David Redmiles, University of Colorado at Boulder Panelists: TBA 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions PAPER SESSION: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATABASES Session Chair: Don McKay, Paramax A Development Process for Engineering Project Management Information Systems Based on Semantic Data Models, Jiaqing Cao, Mingwan Qin, Ming He Automating Workflows for Service Provisioning: Integrating AI and Database Technologies, Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh Merging Information by Discourse Processing for Information Extraction, Tsuyoshi Kitani Improving Monitoring and Surveillance through Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Information Management Systems, Marco Lazzari, Paolo Salvaneschi PAPER SESSION: DIAGNOSIS Session Chair: Chid Apte, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Intelligent Reliability Analysis, Jeffrey A. Barnett, Tom Verma Optimizing Genetic Algorithm Parameters for Multiple Fault Diagnosis Applications, Mark Juric A Computationally Efficient Probabilistic Diagnosis Tool, Gegory M. Provan Component Ontological Representation of Function for Diagnosis, Amruth N. Kumar, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya PANEL SESSION: THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY: WHAT AI RESEARCH IS NEEDED? Chair: Meyer Billmers, DEC Panelists: David Steier, Price-Waterhouse Zahid Ahmed, San Diego Supercomputer Center Bud Frawley, GTE Ken Haase, MIT Media Lab 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 4:00 CLOSING SESSION --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o-- CAIA '94 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair: Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California Program Chair: Peter Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair: Marc Goodman, Cognitive Systems and Brandeis University Local Arrangements Chair: Aaron Konstam, Trinity University Program Committee: Chid Apte, IBM Marie Bienkowski, SRI Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories Mark Burstein, BBN Dan Cooke, U. Texas El Paso Vasant Dhar, NYU Tim Finin, U. Maryland Baltimore County Phil Hayes, Carnegie Group Jim Hendler, U. Maryland Haym Hirsh, Rutgers Lou Hoebel, Rome Laboratory, USAF Se June Hong, IBM Lewis Johnson, USC/ISI Bernadette Kowalski-Minton, Academic Systems Corp. 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Please contact the hotel directly using the following information: Reservation number: 1-800-228-9290 Conference rate: Single: $125, Double: $135 Mention "IEEE Computer Society" to get this rate From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Fri Jan 14 12:53:22 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA14609; Fri, 14 Jan 94 12:53:22 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00340; Fri, 14 Jan 94 12:53:17 CST Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA25087; Fri, 14 Jan 94 13:53:08 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9401141853.AA25087@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Deadline Extension to WET ICE Workshop To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 13:53:07 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 14832 From: Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE) We want to thank all those who have submitted papers to date for the Third IEEE WET ICE, to be held April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. We have received papers from the U.S., France, the Netherlands, England, and Belgium. Because numerous additional authors have requested it, we are extending the submission deadline to January 31. Below are the call for papers and information about registration, the student grant program, and last year's workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '94 Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 17-19, 1994 Morgantown, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society, with support from AAAI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGOIS, will conduct the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be under submission currently for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of all authors. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or postscript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 31, 1994 Notification of decisions February 28, 1994 Final version of the paper April 4, 1994 Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. WET ICE '94 Steering Committee ------------------------------ Chair: Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Jack Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. K. Srinivas , CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University WET ICE '94 Program and Review Committee ---------------------------------------- Chair: Dr. Joe Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI, International Prof. Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Milena Didic, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, & ESPRIT Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Prof. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia Prof. Tom Malone, MIT Prof. Jintae Lee, Univeristy of Hawaii Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Alex Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Mike Sobolewski, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Duvvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. George Trapp, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing WET ICE '94 Coordination ------------------------ General Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC Finance: Anagha Karandikar, CERC Local Arrangements/Publicity: Mary Carriger, CERC Registration: Cathy O'Neal, CERC Audio-Visual: Bill Duff, CERC Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7226 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORM Registration to the workshop is by invitation only and is based on papers submitted to the workshop. A limited number of additional participants may be allowed depending on space availability. Your registration fee will include admission to the workshop; refreshments each day, two lunches, and one banquet (continental breakfast is provided at both of the hotels listed below); and a copy of the proceedings, printed by IEEE after the workshop. Please circle the appropriate fee. For registration by March 17: I am a(n): Full-time student (Paid by AAAI grant) Student #_________________________ WET ICE Committee Member ($265) IEEE Member ($265) Membership #_________________________ Other ($345) For registration between March 18 and April 11: I am a(n): Full-time student (Paid by AAAI grant) Student #_________________________ WET ICE Committee Member ($320) IEEE Member ($320) Membership #_________________________ Other ($415) NOTE: All registrations forms and fees must be received no later than April 11. Payment will not be accepted at the door. Method of Payment (circle one) Check Money order Fee enclosed in U.S. Funds made payable to: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION Date_________________________________________________________ Name________________________________________________________ Title_________________________________________________________ Organization__________________________________________________ Address_______________________________________Mail Stop_______ City__________________________State_____Zip___________________ Phone___________Fax_____________E-Mail_______________________ Mail your registration and check to: Third WET ICE Workshop Attn: Cathy O'Neal CERC, West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 886 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26506-6506 USA Phone: (304) 293-7226 Local Accommodations Rooms have been set aside at the following hotels. Please make your reservations by March 17 and mention the CERC WET ICE Workshop to get the special rate. Hampton Inn 1053 Van Voorhis Rd. (less than 1 mile from CERC -- must cross a 4-lane) (304) 599-1200 $46/night for single rooms, continental breakfast included Euro-Suites Hotel 501 Chestnut Ridge Road (several blocks to CERC -- must cross a 4-lane) (304) 598-1000 $66/night for single rooms, continental breakfast included West Virginia has plenty of outdoor sports and scenic vistas. Its mountains and rivers, with white-water rafting, canoeing, backpacking, fishing, etc., will be a treat in April. West Virginia Travel Guides will be sent with the conference agenda. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work and are eligible for financial support if they are chosen to present a paper or to otherwise participate in the workshop. This support, provided by AAAI, will include free registration, hotel expenses, and all meals. We encourage authors who have students to take advantage of this program. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WET ICE '93 SYNOPSIS Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multi-media, graphical user-interfaces and a precipitous drop in the "cost of computing," point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group) of a team. The 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focussed precisely on these issues. Forty-eight scientists and practitioners from universities and other research institutions throughout the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Singapore, Columbia, and Germany gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The 244-page proceedings was a compendium of 23 scientific papers and 3 working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Copies of the proceedings from WET ICE '93 can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 714-821-8380 if you're calling internationally. Copies are $35 for IEEE members and $70 for non-members. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises" when ordering. Selected papers from the WET ICE '93 will be published in International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. Below are the papers that were published in the proceedings of WET ICE '93. Enterprise Integration ++++++++++++++++++++++ Title: Building Public Concurrent Engineering Frameworks on a National Information Infrastructure Author(s): Dennis Sng: GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Michael K. S. Yap: National Computer Board, Singapore Title: SHARE: A Methodology and Environment for Collaborative Product Development Author(s): George Toye, Mark R. Cutkosky, Larry J. Leifer: Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA J. Marty Tenenbaum, Jay Glicksman: Enterprise Integration Technologies, Palo Alto, California Title: SWIFT: System Workbench for Integrating and Facilitating Teams Author(s): Stephen Lu, et al.: Knowledge-based Engineering Systems Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois Title: ARTEMIS: Advanced Research Testbed for Medical Information Systems Author(s): Y. V. Reddy, et al.: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Title: An Open Systems Profile for Concurrent Engineering Author(s): Marilyn T. Gaska: IBM Federal Systems Company, Owego, New York Process Reengineering and Coordination ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Title: Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes Author(s): Thomas W. Malone, et al.: Center for Coordination Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussets Title: Assessing Organization Readiness for Implementing Concurrent Engineering Practices and Collaborative Technologies Author(s): H. M. Karandikar, et al.: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Title: Re-engineering the Design Process Author(s): Donald V. Steward: Computer Science Department, California State University, Sacramento, California Title: AgentX: An Environment for Coordinating Distributed Problem Solving in Product Development Author(s): Jim Davis, Srikanth Kannapan: Xerox Corporation, Design Research Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Title: Negotiation as an Aid in Concurrent Engineering Author(s): Keith Werkman: IBM Federal Systems Company, Owego, New York Collocation Technology ++++++++++++++++++++++ Title: CECED: A System for Informal Multi-media Collaboration Author(s): Earl Craighill, et al.: SRI International, Menlo Park, California Title: Reliable Information Service for Internet Computer Conferencing Author(s): Hussein Abdul-Wahab: Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia Title: Extending Group Communication Facilities to Support Complex Distributed Office Procedures Author(s): Alexander B. Schill: Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Title: SHASTRA: An Architecture for Development of Collaborative Applications Author(s): Vinod Anupam, Chandrajit Bajaj: Computer Science Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Title: Infrastructure Support for Multimedia Communications: A Survey Author(s): Qiang Lin, Kankanahalli Srinivas: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Title: MObViews: A Multiuser Worksheet for a Mechanical Engineering Environment Author(s): Nuno M. Guimaraes: IST/INESC, Lisbon, Portugal Paulo T. Silva, Jose T. Santos: IST/CEMUL, Lisbon, Portugal Andrzej Siemaszko: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw, Poland Title: Support System for Different-Time Different-Place Collaboration for Concurrent Engineering Author(s): Eswaran Subrahmanian, et al.: Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Title: COMIX: A Tool to Share X Applications Author(s): Aliasghar Babadi: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Information Sharing +++++++++++++++++++ Title: Model-Based Information Access Author(s): V. Jagannathan, et al.: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Title: SHARED-DRIMS: SHARED Design Recommendation-Intent Management System Author(s): Feniosky Pena, Duvvuru Sriram, Robert Logcher: Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Title: An Approach for Supporting Inter-application Consistency Author(s): Kari Alho, et al.: Computer Science Department, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland Title: Translative Interface for Data Sharing and Integrating: A Paradigm for Distributed Data Systems Author(s): Thomas F. Maloney: Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington Title: Issues in Information System Development for the Support of a CE Environment Author(s): Francis A. Wilson: Department of Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England John N. Wilson: Computer Science Department, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland From Walter_Hamscher@notes.pw.com Fri Jan 14 13:31:26 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA16336; Fri, 14 Jan 94 13:31:26 CST Received: from tc.pw.com (jasmine.tc.pw.com) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00417; Fri, 14 Jan 94 13:31:21 CST Received: from pwtc.tc.pw.com by tc.pw.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04269; Fri, 14 Jan 94 11:39:02 PST Received: by pwtc.tc.pw.com (4.1/SMI-3.2) id AA20257; Fri, 14 Jan 94 11:25:42 PST From: Walter_Hamscher@notes.pw.com Message-Id: <9401141925.AA20257@pwtc.tc.pw.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 11:24:08 PST To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: AI in Business Process Reengineering - Call for Papers AAAI-94 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Business Process Reengineering Seattle, Washington, Week of July 31-Aug 4, 1994. Description of Workshop: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is concerned with achieving order of magnitude increases in performance through a complete redesign of business processes. This workshop will focus on the roles of AI in the design phase of business process reengineering, encompassing recent research on AI tools for assisting in process design. This workshop is intended to foster discussion of different roles for AI in BPR, stimulating interaction between the AI research community and people with experience in BPR efforts. Topics: A promising area for AI in supporting BPR in the design phase are: supporting modeling of holistic aspects of a business like goals, strategies and capabilities; supporting process modeling; generating innovative process models; performing gap analysis through a combination of qualitative and quantitative simulations; and tying the abstract with the detailed models. At least three related approaches to modeling are currently being explored. The first of these is knowledge-based simulation, in which the objective is to produce a quantitative or stochastic simulation of a business process. AI technology provides the knowledge-based environment in which designers can specify the model in terms of components and connections, using varying levels of structural and type hierarchies, to construct models that are then used to support simulation. Knowledge-based simulation has demonstrated its value in commercial tools and research projects. An alternative to simulation is symbolic evaluation, in which a causal model of a process in terms of the behavior of its constituent elements is analyzed to produce characterizations of its global behavior without simulation. Finally, qualitative modeling and analysis of processes is a good technique to use for models when the data needed for quantitative or stochastic analysis is not available. This approach is illustrated by systems which perform qualitative analysis of financial entities. Such systems support the process of constructing a business model that incorporates goals, policies and constraints, and a business process model that incorporates tasks and decisions. The process of evolving the business models and associated business processes leads to redesigning of the business. Each of these techniques, however, has its limitations: the limited inferential power of purely qualitative reasoning is well documented, symbolic evaluation is often intractable unless the form of the model is carefully controlled, and knowledge-based simulation ultimately relies on simulation techniques that presume the availability of quantitative data that may be simply unavailable. Research efforts in all of these areas have in common the need to balance the difficulty of acquiring and constructing the process model against the need to produce reliable and informative results from analysis. An orthogonal dimension of concerns in business process modeling arises from the fact that nearly all BPR design efforts involve collaborative effort across organizational boundaries, and both modeling an enterprise "as is" and "to be" result in large and complex models, forcing serious issues of scalability and knowledge management to be addressed. Format of Workshop: The workshop will be a half-day. To stimulate intensive discussion, invited authors will be given a substantial time slot, followed by a short time slot for a respondent who will have prepared a commentary on the preceding presentation. Attendance and submission requirements: Attendees may either submit three copies of a technical abstract of up to five pages, or a shorter position paper describing the author's interest in the workshop topic. Invitations to make presentations will go to submissions based on relevance to the workshop topic, technical contribution, and clarity of presentation. Demonstrations of live programs in support of technical presentations are strongly encouraged. Position papers of one to two pages may be submitted in lieu of technical abstracts. Some attendees will be asked to serve as respondents for accepted presentations. Fax submissions are discouraged; hardcopy is acceptable; E-mail is preferred. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to provide camera ready copies. Submission Deadline: March 18, 1994. Notification Date: April 8, 1994. Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: April 29, 1994 Submit to: Walter Hamscher Price Waterhouse Technology Centre 68 Willow Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: (415) 688-6669 Fax: (415) 617-7869 Net: Walter_Hamscher@notes.pw.com Workshop Committee: Walter Hamscher (Price Waterhouse; Walter_Hamscher @ notes.pw.com) and Pramod Jain (Andersen Consulting; pramod @ andersen.com), co-chairs; Robert Friedenberg (Inference Corporation; robert @ inference.com), Gerry Williams (Andersen Consulting; Gerry_Williams @ qm.andersen.com), Dorothy Yu (Coopers and Lybrand). From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Tue Jan 18 16:28:12 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA10980; Tue, 18 Jan 94 16:28:12 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04263; Tue, 18 Jan 94 16:28:06 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA01587; Tue, 18 Jan 94 14:28:04 PST Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 14:28:03 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: NEW EI CLUB/ NEWSLETTER Message-Id: NEW EI Club/ Mailing List/ Newslwetter Soem contents omitted because of length restrictions. ------------------------------------- >From vernadat@lion.loria.fr Thu Dec 23 04:09:08 1993 Flags: 000000000011 Return-Path: Received: from lion.loria.fr by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA09140; Thu, 23 Dec 93 04:08:54 PST Received: by lion.loria.fr id AA02927 (5.65c+/IDA-1.4.3 for petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu); Thu, 23 Dec 93 13:07:51 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 13:07:51 +0100 >From: Francois Vernadat Message-Id: <9312231207.AA02927@lion.loria.fr> To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Subject: EM-Club, Newsletter No. 3 EM-Club Newsletter Number 3, December 1993 Dear EM-Club members, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year 1994. Enclosed are some news and conference announcements about Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Integration. May I ask you to send me a selected list of your most significant publications in the field to be compiled in the next bulletin. Also, don't hesitate to pass me any piece of information that you would like to see distributed to EM-Club members. Yours sincerely F. Vernadat Item 1: EM-news: ---------------- 1) Report on the IFIP/IFAC Task Force by P. Bernus and L. Nemes Joint IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for Integrating Manufacturing Activities and Enterprises ===================================================== In 1990 IFIP and IFAC set up the Task Force (TF) on Architectures for Integrating Manufacturing Activities and Enterprises with the aim of defining and evaluating Enterprise Reference Architectures. The timeliness of this move was marked by the fact that by that time several groups around the world had been working on the definition of reference architectures and there was no way to compare or evaluate the results. These groups included private organisations/ sw/hw vendors, academic research institutions, and standards bodies. In its first triennium the TF produced a major report (to be published in book form), a conference paper [1] (presented at the IFAC World Congress in Sydney, July 1993) and an article (to appear simultaneously in Computers in Industry - for IFIP, and Control Engineering Practice - for IFAC). By the time this message appears, the chairman Ted Williams will have presented the findings in a keynote address in Tokyo at the JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Workshop ``The Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing.'' Highlights of the study completed in the first triennium: -------------------------------------------------------- - The identification of TWO types of enterprise reference architectures, those which describe the structure of the control-/information system of the enterprise, and those which provide a life-cycle model of how to carry out enterprise integration. - Detailed study of three important architectures of the latter type (CIM-OSA, GIM and Purdue Enterprise Refer- ence Architectures). - Development of a matrix method by which it is possible to - map concepts of one architecture to concepts of another and to - identify the elements that a complete reference architecture must contain - characterise the contribution of any architecture to a complete enterprise reference architecture. - Recommendations for possible completion of available architectures either separately or by way of combining them into an encompassing Enterprise Reference Archi- tecture. It is important that the TF identified: the studied architectures could complement one another rather then compete. - Recommendations to carry out case studies which will uncover in more detail the strengths and weaknesses of the presently available architectures. Future of the Task Force; ------------------------- The Task Force will continue its work as an IFAC Technical Committee (Architectures for Enterprise Integration) and possibly as a Working Group of IFIP TC5. Liaisons with relevant other IFIP and IFAC groups, with ISO Technical Committees and other standards groups is deemed essential. We are recruiting further members in view of extending the disciplinary base of the TF with the aim of keeping a balance of information technology (IS, SE), organizational and management, control engineering, economics, an socio- technical views. The area of work for the next triennium continues to be Enterprise Reference Architectures of both types, the evaluation of case studies, further detailed work on the definition of a complete reference architecture, the relationship of enterprise reference architectures and architectures of more limited scope, and various modelling issues. The details of the action plan will be worked out in the next future. Present membership of the Task Force: ------------------------------------- chair: Prof. Theodore J. Williams (Purdue University, US) tjwil@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu vice-chair: Dr Peter Bernus (Griffith University, AUS) bernus@cit.gu.edu.au ACTIVE MEMBERS Mr. James Brosvic (Honeywell, US) Professor Guy Doumeingts (Universite de Bordeaux 1, France) Mr. Fadi G. Fadel (University of Toronto, Canada) Dr. Atsushi Inamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Co, Japan) Dr. Laszlo Nemes (Division of Manufacturing Technology, CSIRO, AUS) Mr. James L. Nevins (Burlington,MA,USA) Dr. Gustav J. Olling (Chrysler Motors Corporation, USA) Ing. Marco Tomljanovich (ITALCAD, Italy) Dr. Bruno Vallespir (Universite de Bordeaux 1, France) Dr. David Cheng (Universite de Bordeaux 1, France) Ing. Jakob Vlietstra (McKinleyville, CA, USA) Ing. Dick Zoetekouw (AT\&T Network Systems Nederland BV, The Netherlands) CORRESPONDING MEMBERS Mr. Randy Aranguren (IBM Rochester, USA) Professor Karl-Johan Astrom (Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden) Dr. Albert Benveniste (IRISA-INRIA, France) Professor Chen Yuliu (Tsinghua University, PR China) Professor Mark S. Fox (University of Toronto, Canada) Dr. Yoshiro Fukuda (Technical Research Institute, JSPMI, Japan) Dr. Zengjin Han (Tsinghua University, PR China) Professor Lennart Ljung (Linkoping University, Sweden) Dr. G. Kovacs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Professor Leo Motus (Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia) Professor Michael G. Rodd (University College of Swansea, University of Wales, UK) ----- REFERENCES in bibtex format [1] @inproceedings{ifac93:TFreport, author = {Williams, T.J. and Bernus, P. and Brosvic, J. and Cheng, D. and Doumeingts, G. and Nemes, L. and Nevins, J.L. and Vallespir, B. and Vlietstra, J. and Zoetekouw, D., title = {{Architectures for Integrating Manufacturing Activities and Enterprises}, booktitle = {Prepr. IFAC World Congress 1993, Sydney, Vol.X. pp273-283, month = {July}, year = {1993}} 2) DIISM'93 JSPE-IFIP WG 5.3 Working Conference on The Design of Information infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing, Tokyo, Japan, November 8-10, 1993 We have had an excellent meeting in Tokyo which attracted about 100 people. This was organised by Jan Goossenaerts and The University of Tokyo (as announced in the EM-Newsletter No. 2). Three days were dedicated to the paper presentations and one day was for industrial visits. Due to the novelty of the topic, some of the papers were outside of the scope of the discussions and the title of the Working Conference meant different things to different people. However, there were many papers on enterprise modelling, both on modelling technology and methodologies, and few on enterprise integration. Some papers dealt with Concurrent Engineering. The major trends demonstrated by this meeting were (1) the need for a common or generalized architecture for enterprise modelling, and (2) the move towards more formal enterprise models. Several papers addressed process models. Discussions on tools were also held. I think the meeting was enriching for everyone attending. Also, everyone could appreciate the friendly atmosphere and the good working ambiance of these four days. The structure of the Workshop encouraged technical discussions since there was one session at any time and enough time for paper presentation and discussions. The proceedings will be available from Elsevier in 1994. For more information, please contact Jan Goossenaerts at: jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp Item 2: EM Conference announcements: ------------------------------------ Papers can be submitted on Enterprise Modelling and Integration to: (As suggested in the first EM-Club Newsletter, these conferences can also be used to give a chance to EM-Club members to meet for working session) 1) CARs & FOF 94: The 10th ISPE/IFAC International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future (CARs & FOF'94), August 21-24, 1994, Ottawa, Canada Send abstract as soon as possible Topics: CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM; Intelligent Manufacturing Systems; Intelligent Engineering; Robotics; Total Quality Control; Factories of the Future; Novel Technologies; Software for Engineering and Manufacturing; Applications and Case Studies. Due date for invited sessions: December 31, 1993 Due date for full papers: May 31, 1994 Contact person: Mark Zaremba CARs & FOF'94 Secretariat Ottawa Carleton Research Institute 340 March Road, Suite 400 Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2k 2E4 e-mail: kmahoney@carleton.ca 2) IMS 94: IMS'94 2nd IFAC/IFIP/IFORS Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, June 13-15, 1994, Vienna, Austria Topics: Flexible Manufacturing Systems; Perspectives of manufacturing systems; Control of manufacturing systems; intelligent manufacturing processes; intelligent CA-techniques; Intelligent control of material processes; Global optimisation techniques; Knowledge based and expert systems; process planning systems; scheduling and production management; product design and Concurrent Engineering; Fuzzy control in manufacturing systems; automated assembly; fault detection and diagnosis; Robotics; Application examples; Educational aspects; Social aspects Abstract due date: February 14th, 1994 (5 copies of 400 words abstract) Contact: Austrian Center for Productivity and Efficiency (OEPWZ) Rockhgasse 6 A-1014 Wien Austria 3) ICARCV'94: Third International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, 8-11 November 1994, Singapore Contact person: N. Sundararajan, Chairman, Technical Programme Committee School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue Singapore 2263 e-mail: ensudara@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg This conference is the next event of a successful series of conferences held in Singapore and attracting over 250 scientists and industrialists interested in CIM, Automated manufacturing, Robotics and computer vision. Papers are invited on: INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION: Instrumentation systems; Flexible Manufacturing Systems; Process Automation and Networking; Man-machine Interaction; On-line Process Monitoring and Control; Factory Modelling and Automation ROBOTICS: Robot Control; Mobile Robots and Navigation; Task Planning; Intelligent Sensors and Actuators; Micro-Robots; Robot Design and Simulation; Multiple Robots COMPUTER VISION: Image Processing and Interpretation; 3-D/Colour/Stereo Image Analysis; Dynamic Scene Analysis; Vision Systems; Pattern Recognition and Applications; Machine Intelligence CONTROL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS SIGNAL PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS AI AND EXPERT SYSTEMS NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY SYSTEMS REAL TIME SYSTEMS PETRI NETS AND APPLICATIONS Papers are due by 30 April 1994 There will be sessions on Enterprise Modelling and Integration. An invited session is planned on this topic with Prof. Bernus, C. Bussler, Prof. Doumeingts, Prof. T.J. Williams and myself. The aim of the session is to work on the concept of a consolidated architecture for enterprise modelling, called The Generalized Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM). This will be a follow up of the work done by the IFIP/IFAC Task Force and the discussions initiated during DIISM'93 in Tokyo. You are invited to submit papers for the conference and join us for discussions. Working sessions can be organized during the conference for the EM-Club. Notice: We can use the same idea for IMS'94 and CARs & FOF 94 for those attending. 4) IFIP WG 5.7 Workshop on Benchmarking - Theory and Practice, Trondheim, Norway, June 16-18, 1994 Aim: To discuss techniques and methods of benchmarking of an enterprise and business processes within an enterprise. Topics: Benchmarking techniques, Implementation and use of benchmarking, multi-decision models of the benchmarking process, qualitative evaluation methods, enterprise modelling and business process engineering, performance indicators, benchmarking results, application examples and cases Due date for papers: February 1, 1994 Contact person: Solfrid Sorensen Department of Production and Quality Engineering, NTH N-7034 Trondheim, Norway Tel +47 73 59 27 99 Fax: +47 73 59 71 17 Item 3: Messages ---------------- Message from Dr. Robert Marcus: ------------------------------- Dr. Robert Marcus, Boeing Computer Services P.O. Box 24346, MS 7L-10, Seattle, Wa 98124 Tel. (206) 865-3189. Fax: (206) 865-6903. rmarcus@atc.boeing.com P.S. I have organized a similar group for object technology called Corporate Facilitators of Object-Oriented Technology(CFOOT). I can add your name if you like. Below is the most recent posting for your information. ****************************************************************************** DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING PRODUCTS OVERVIEW(CFOOT) The purpose of this posting is to discuss some middleware and related products for distributed computing. In particular, the capabilities of the individual products and possible relationships between them will be discussed. There is an increasing number of products and packages in this area with overlapping functionality. This can be a source of confusion in planning future distributed programming environments. The list below is NOT complete. Examples of products were chosen in each category to illustrate potential and actual relationships. Issues related to distributed data management are not discussed. Any feedback(e.g. corrections, additions) would be appreciated. Thanks. Bob Marcus rmarcus@atc.boeing.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME GENERAL REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION "Distributed Object-based Programming Systems"(ACM Computing Surveys 3/91) by Roger Chin and Samuel Chanson The general design and implementation issues of distributed object-based systems are discussed. Seven of the leading systems are analyzed based on these issues. "An Overview of Projects on Distributed Systems" by Alfred Lupper (lupper@informatik.uni-ulm.de) Ninety-eight distributed operating systems, environments, languages and microkernels are described. "A Survey of Parallel Programming Languages and Tools"(Report RND-93-005) by Doreen Y. Cheng (NASA AMES) Thirty-five parallel programming languages and fifty-nine parallel programming tools are evaluated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MULTIPROTOCOL NETWORK TRANSPORTS Peer Logic (PIPES) Peer Logic's Pipes provides a dynamic logical network layer that can deliver simple messages across a wide range of different protocols. Several companies are building products and architectures on top of Pipes. In particular, some of the RPCs and/or more sophisticated messaging products could run on top of Pipes to gain a more dynamic, heterogeneous capability. IBM recently announced an agreement with Peer Logic that will allow applications written to the Pipes API to run on IBM's Multiprotocol Network Transport. ATT (Transport Layer Interface) TLI is the application interface to Streams, a multi-protocol support architecture first developed in Unix System V.3. The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) is based on TLI. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MICROKERNELS OSF(Mach) The Mach kernel developed at CMU is the foundation of the OSF's OSF/1 operating system. It is not clear what impact microkernels will have on distributed computing environments of the future. Chorus Systemes (Chorus) Chorus will be used as the basis of the next release of Unix System V from the Unix System Labs. COOL is an object layer built on top of Chorus that provides system support for distributed object programming.(See the 9/93 issue of CACM on Concurrent Object-oriented Programming for more details). Microsoft (NT) The NT kernel will be the nucleus of Microsoft's next-generation Cairo Distributed Operating System. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REMOTE PROCEDURE CALLS NobleNet (EZ-RPC) EZ-RPC is a client-server development tool that allows any C programmer to easily develop distributed applications on to of the TI-RPC. EZ-RPC will be bundled into future releases of Unix System V. Netwise (Netwise-RPC) Netwise has a RPC product that runs across many network protocols. They recently announced a product TransAcess that can send RPCs across IMS/DC. Netwise's Duet product provide transparent transport interoperability between TCP/IP, SNA and Novell networks. It is possible to use Oracle and MS-Window tools as a front-end to Netwise. ATT/Sun (TI-RPC) TI-RPC is the most pervasive RPC as the underlying communication tool for NFS. TI-RPC runs on top of the TLI. OSF (DCE/RPC) DCE/RPC is the basis for the OSF`s Distributed Computing Environment. This environment offers a range of services such as security and threads that are not yet part of any of the OMG Object Request Broker specifications. The X/Open Tx-RPC is based on the DCE/RPC. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONVERSATIONAL PROGRAMMING IBM(Common Programming Interface-Communications) CPI-C is IBM's interface for cooperative conversational communication between distributed applications. It is also the basis for the X/Open standard in this area. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESSAGING PRODUCTS System Strategies/IBM (MQ Series) System Strategies makes a messaging product that runs across many network protocols. IBM and System Strategies will sell a product called MQ Series that will use IBM's Message Queuing Interface API on top of System Strategies messaging technology. MQI Series could be enhanced by porting it to run on top of Peer Logic's Pipes. The MQ Series could interoperate with Transaction Processing Managers by building an interface between messaging and transaction queues. The MQI API will be submitted to X/Open. Horizon Strategies (Message Express) Horizon Strategies has announced a future enhancement to their product that will be called Associative Resource Objects(AROs). AROs will allow pluggable communication behavior to be built on top of the basic Message Express system. The August 1993 issue of the Seybold Distributed Computing Monitor has a feature article on the ARO approach. Covia Systems(Communications Integrator) Covia and Sun have signed a joint technology development agreement to investigate the potential of integrating the Sun RPC with the Communications Integrator. Momentum Software(X-IPC) X-IPC provides high-performance distributed shared memory, semaphores, and message queuing as an extension to single platform operating systems IPC. There has been some discussions of combining X-IPCs capabilities with that of other messaging products such as Message Express. It would also be possible to use X-IPC on top of a microkernel to provide distributed shared memory across a heterogeneous network. Some other messaging products(More information available on request) Creative System Interface (AAI) Digital (DECmessageQ) HP (Sockets)(BMS) IBM (DataTrade)(DAE) Suite Software (SuiteTalk) Symbiotics (Networks) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING Sun(Tooltalk) Sun's Tooltalk has been adopted by the COSE group as the common mechanism for asynchronous messaging between tools. Tooltalk runs on top of TI-RPC. Tooltalk will be the basis of the Events Services component of Sun's Object Request Broker Architecture. Teknekron (Teknekron Information Bus) The Teknekron Information Bus(TIB) is a reliable high-performance publish-and-subscribe system that features subject-based retrieval and complex messages. The product has been licensed by Microsoft for use in financial applications on NT. The Sematech consortium will also be evaluating TIB in a factory application. Expert Database Systems (Rnet) Rnet is a new system with some of Teknekron's TIB capabilities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSACTION PROCESSING MANAGERS Unix Systems Lab (Tuxedo) Tuxedo is the most widely used product in the open systems transaction management area. It runs on top of the Streams TLI or Sockets. The future relationship between transaction processing systems and object request brokers (e.g. Hyperdesk) is not well-defined at present. Information Management Company (Open TransPort) Open TransPort allows applications running under Tuxedo to transparently execute IMS/DC transactions using a TCP/IP gateway to MVS. A CICS version will be available in September. NCR (TopEnd) TopEnd has an architecture which defines an open interface to the communications manager. This will allow alternate communication mechanisms to be used without changing the other parts of the system. Transarc (Encina) The Encina toolkit runs on top of a transactional extension to the DCE/RPC. It can also use the X-Open CPI-C protocol to communicate through CICS with mainframe resource managers. IBM/HP/Transarc (Open CICS) Open CICS duplicates the mainframe CICS interfaces on open systems platforms using the core of the Encina toolkit as a foundation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRIBUTED WORKSTATION EXECUTION SYSTEMS Aggregate Systems (NetShare) NetShare provides network wide resource management and task execution for Unix systems. It uses a proprietary remote execution service but the architecture will allow the DCE/RPC or TI-RPC to be utilized also. NetShare could be a service in an object request broker architecture. Platform Computing(Utopia) Utopia provides transparent, fault-tolerant, distributed batch execution, load sharing and interactive services for Unix systems. Its remote execution model can support either a remote operation invocation or a conversational client-server interaction. The relationship between this type of product and transaction processing managers, object request brokers and system management products is an open question. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECT REQUEST BROKERS Hyperdesk (Distributed Object Manager) Hyperdesk provides one of the first implementation of the OMG Object Request Broker. It currently runs on top of the Netwise RPC. Hyperdesk could also be layered on top of other messaging or RPC products. Novell is combining Hyperdesk with the Software Transformations Inc. portable desktop operating environment and the Serius object-oriented visual programming environment into a distributed application framework. IBM Distributed System Object Model(DSOM) The Distributed System Object Model is an extension of the programming language-independent System Object Model which is the basis of the OS/2 Workplace Shell. The DSOM will conform to the OMG ORB architecture. HP will be using the DSOM as part of its Distributed Object architecture and Sun has promised interoperability between DSOM and the Sun Distributed Object Environment. DSOM will initially use sockets for remote communication. DSOM currently has a proprietary Event Manager Framework for peer-to-peer communication. Microsoft (Distributed OLE) Distributed OLE is an extension of OLE 2.0 which will be part of the Cairo operating system. A Microsoft version of the DCE/RPC will be used for remote communication. Distributed OLE will probably not conform to the OMG architecture and no standard interface between OMG object request brokers and OLE has been proposed yet. Iona Technologies Ltd. (Orbix) Orbix is a full implementation of the current OMG Object Request Broker architecture. It also includes a C++ binding. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SYSTEM MANAGEMENT OSF (Distributed Management Environment) The OSF's Distributed Management Environment will run on top of the DCE/RPC. The API's will be based on the OMG Object Request Broker. Legent Legent is a traditional mainframe system management vendor that is developing an open systems product. The product will run on top of Peer Logic's Pipes. Legent has also licensed the Galaxy portable desktop environment from Visix as part of its architecture. Legent is working with Tivoli Systems, one of the main contributors to the OSF/DME. Digital Analysis (HyperManagement) Digital Analysis is working with Hyperdesk to develop a system management product called HyperManagement that will run on top of Hyperdesk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT/EXECUTION PRODUCTS Texas Instruments (Information Engineering Facility) Texas Instruments IEF is a mainframe CASE tool that is being extended for client-server applications. The client-server version will run on top of Peer Logic's Pipes. The 8/30 issue of Communication Week describes an agreement between TI and Microsoft to use the IEF Encyclopedia as a repository for Microsoft's desktop software development tools. Independence Technologies (iTRAN) Independence Technologies has a software development and execution toolkit that runs on top of transaction management systems. Currently only the Tuxedo version is available. A workflow component called iWORK was built on top of iTRAN but is not a current product. Intellicorp(Kappa) Kappa includes an executable object-oriented design CASE tool front-end. It uses a communication component called CommManager that provides message-based peer-to-peer links between distributed objects. ISIS Distributed Systems (RDOM) The Reliable Distributed Object Management(RDOM) system supports publish and subscribe messaging, object groups and fault-tolerance through replication. The Sematech Consortium will also be evaluating ISIS in their manufacturing architecture. There is a distributed Smalltalk/RDOM available from ISIS. ISIS has been ported to run on top of the Mach and Chorus microkernels. Early, Cloud & Company (Message Driven processor) The Message Driven processor(MDp) is an enterprise level workflow tool that runs on top of several mainframe communication protocols including the IBM/System Strategies MQ Series. Expersoft(XShell) XShell provides a distributed programming environment that encapsulates a proprietary asynchronous RPC inside C++ classes. Expersoft has organized a "Distributed Object Alliance" around XShell which includes Lucid(C++), Objectivity(OODB), Persistence(C++ to RDBs), Associative Design(Executable Object-models similar to KAPPA's), Logicon(C++ encapsulation of Fortran and COBOL), and MRJ(System Integration). Cooperative Solutions(Ellipse) Ellipse is a development/execution product that runs on LANs. It claims to support versioning, application partitioning, portability, repository-based development, configuration control and distributed transaction management in multiple client/server environments. SOME PERSONAL OPINIONS: * Inter-application communication tools should be chosen based on the requirements of application areas. In particular, RPCs and ORBs are not the total solution. Many vendors and internal projects in end-user companies are using peer-to-peer messaging as the basic paradigm. * Rules of thumb: APPLICATION-TYPE -> MIDDLEWARE TYPE Client-Server -> RPC or Conversational Communication Client-Services -> ORB or Distributed Transaction Manager Peer-to-peer -> Messaging Communication * For large enterprise distributed computing, it will be necessary to have a foundation of robust communication and coordination across the three tiers of PC LANs, local servers, and mainframe systems. This will require integrating many tools and products. Future coordination environments should combine the capabilities of transaction processing managers, distributed development/execution/management systems, and object request brokers. The most challenging problem is to build enterprise-level transactional workflow processes linking together multiple local coordination managers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OMITTED DUE TO MAILING LIST LENGTH RESTRICTIONS ------------------------------------- Item 5: Current mailing list (not in alphabetical order): ----------------------------- If you wish that your name be removed from the mailing list, please let me know. If you think that relevant persons are missing, please send names and addresses. Andrew Kusiak, U. of Iowa, USA [ankusiak@icaen.uiowa.edu] Mark. Fox, U. of Toronto, CDN [msf@ie.utoronto.ca] Bruce. Speyer, MCC, USA [speyer@mcc.com] Charles. Petrie, MCC/Stanford U., USA [petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu] Peter Eirich, USA [eirich@mstc1.bwi.wec.com] Ted. Goranson, USA [goranson@isi.edu] Bob. Neches, ISI, USA [neches@isi.edu] Kurt. Kosanke, AMICE, D [kosanke@ipa.fhg.de] Francois. Vernadat, INRIA, France [vernadat@ilm.loria.fr] Jan. Goosenaerts, University of Tokyo, Japan [jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp] Roger Burkhart, John Deere, USA [roger@ci.deere.com] Jim Fulton, Boeing, USA [jfulton@atc.boeing.com] Enrico Canuto, I [enrico.canuto@eurokom.ie] Bob. Kwikkers, NL [kwi@ipl.tue.nl] Patric Timmermans, NL [pti@bdk.tue.nl] Marcos Aguiar, UK [marcos@mansun.lut.ac.uk] Peter Bernus, Australia [P.Bernus@cit.gu.edu.au] Laslo Nemes, CSIRO, Australia [lnm@mlb.dmt.csiro.au] Prof. M.G. Rodd, University of Wales, UK [eerodd@uk.ac.swan.pyr] Prof. T.J. Williams, Purdue Univ., USA [tjwil@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu] Prof. A. Villa, Politecnico di Torino, Italy [tecno1@polito.it] Prof. M. Zaremba, UQAH, CDN [Marek_Zaremba@UQAH.UQuebec.CA] Guanqun Gu, SouthEast Univ., PRC [gu@cs.seu.crn.cn] I. Mezgar, Hungary [h724mez@ella.hu] Udo Graefe, NRC, CDN [graefe@syslab.nrc.ca] Homa Atabakhsh, NRC, CDN [atabakhsh@syslab.nrc.ca] Jose Palazzo Mreira de Oliveira, UFRGS, Brasil [palazzo@inf.ufrgs.br] Robert Winter, IWI, Frankfurt, D [winter@iwi.uni-frankfurt.dbp.de] Christoph Bussler, DEC, D [bussler@kampus.enet.dec.com] Joel Ouriou, Calgary, CDN [ouriou@cpsc.ucalgary.ca] Prof Hendrik van Brussel, Belgium [vanbrussel@mech.kuleuven.ac.be] Prof. Asbjorn Rolstadas, Norway [arolst@protek.unit.no] Prof. Ulrich Rembold , Germany [pfitzer@ira.uka.de] G.T. Nguyen, INRIA, France [nguyen@imag.fr] Prof Eero Eloranta , Finland [eee@hutcs.hut.fi] Prof Eugenio Puente, Spain [puente@disam.upm.es] Prof.Jim Browne , Galway, Ireland [espbrowne@esprit.ucg.ie] V. "Juggy" Jagannathan [juggy@cerc.wvu.edu] Dr. Robert Marcus, Boeing Computer Services [rmarcus@atc.boeing.com] Alan Carrie/S. Banerjee, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK [s.k.banerjee@strath.ac.uk, cler17@ccsun.strath.ac.uk] Bruno Querenet, HP France, Lyon [bruno@cimosa.grenoble.hp.co] Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui, LAAS, France [kader@laas.fr] Michel Petit, Univ. Namur, Belgium [mpe@info.fundp.ac.be] Eric Dubois, Univ. Namur, Belgium [edu@info.fundp.ac.be] Tek Kee Wang, GINTIC Institute [gtkwang@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg] A. El-Mahmedi, ENSAIS, Strasbourg, France [lrps@aiscfao3.u-strasbg.fr] Robert Maglica, Univ. Chalmers, Sweeden [roma@pe.chalmers.se] Prof. A. Di Leva, Univ. Torino, Italy [dileva@di.unito.it] Dr Nigel C Carr, IBM UK Labs Ltd, Winchester, UK [gbibm65b@ibmmail.COM] Georg Naeger, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [gdennis@ntu.ac.sg] Dr Arvind Shrivastava, Monash University, Australia Prof. A. Artiba, Mons, Belgium Ziqiong Deng, PRC [NUST, Nanjing, P.R.C.] Bruce. Jorgenson, Boeing, USA ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://gummo.stanford.edu/ From lander@cs.umass.edu Thu Jan 20 13:32:09 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12273; Thu, 20 Jan 94 13:32:09 CST Received: from cs.umass.edu (freya.cs.umass.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA06342; Thu, 20 Jan 94 13:32:02 CST Received: by cs.umass.edu (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA13268; Thu, 20 Jan 94 14:31:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 14:31:50 -0500 From: lander@cs.umass.edu (SUSAN LANDER) Message-Id: <9401201931.AA13268@cs.umass.edu> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CFP: Workshop on Models of Conflict Management ****************************************************************************** * * * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * * * THE AAAI-94 WORKSHOP ON MODELS OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT * * IN COOPERATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING * * * ****************************************************************************** Workshop Description -------------------- A central aspect of cooperative problem solving is the avoidance, detection, and resolution of conflicts among group members. Therefore, conflict management is of great theoretical and practical interest in the development of models of multiagent problem solving. Work on conflict management has occurred in a variety of settings including Multiagent Planning and Design, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Integration, Group Decision Support Systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Software Engineering, Sociology, Organizational Science, and International Relations. The goal of the workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers from diverse fields to exchange ideas and promote discussion about models of conflict management. Through exploring common themes, it is hoped the participants will better understand related work from other areas, and can begin to outline a general theory of conflict management across multiple domains. The workshop also aims to encourage progress toward better models of conflict management and better tools for supporting it. Topics ------ Papers are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics: o What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management, and how can they be applied to practical problems? o How and where are theoretical and computational models of conflict management being used today? How do these models fare in real-world environments? o What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer for the development of the next generation of computational models? o How can computers support group conflict management? What are the benefits and challenges of the different approaches? o Which aspects of conflict management are generic and which are domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational participants? Format ------ This full-day workshop will consist of four moderated sessions, each focusing on a primary subject area and including: o a moderator's overview of common themes and key issues o presentations of selected papers by workshop participants: presenters will be asked to address key issues identified by the moderators o a discussion panel, focusing on shared issues rather than on further explanation of participants' individual work. Workshop participants will also be invited to display posters describing their work. Attendance: ----------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people. Submission Requirements: ----------------------- Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit either: 1) four copies of a brief research summary and statement of interest; or 2) those who wish to present current research at the workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract (no longer than 6 pages), focusing on the main contribution of the work in preference to introductory material, literature review, etc. Please include a list of keywords (e.g, design, planning, CSCW, etc.), the authors' electronic and physical address information, and indicate if you would like to display a poster at the workshop. Either hard-copy or email submissions are welcome. Submissions and questions regarding this workshop can be directed to: Mark Klein or Susan Lander Boeing Computer Services Computer Science Department P.O. Box 24346, 7L-64 University of Massachusetts Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA Amherst, MA 01003 USA mklein@atc.boeing.com lander@cs.umass.edu Voice: (206) 865-3412 Voice: (413) 545-0675 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Fax: (413) 545-1249 Submission Deadline: March 18, 1994 -------------------- Notification Date: April 8, 1994 ----------------- The workshop is to be held in conjunction with the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) in Seattle, Washington. Workshops will be held July 31--August 4, 1994. Workshop Committee: ------------------- Mark Klein (co-chair) Susan Lander (co-chair) Boeing Computer Services University of Massachusetts mklein@atc.boeing.com lander@cs.umass.edu D.C. Brown Stephen Lu Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Illinois dcb@cs.wpi.edu lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu V. Jagganathan D. Sriram CERC, West Virginia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology juggy@cerc.wvu.edu sriram@athena.mit.edu Simon Kaplan Katia Sycara University of Illinois Carnegie Mellon University kaplan@marula.cs.uiuc.edu sycara@isl1.ri.cmu.edu Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts lesser@cs.umass.edu From speyer@mcc.com Fri Jan 21 09:23:42 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA05682; Fri, 21 Jan 94 09:23:42 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07520; Fri, 21 Jan 94 09:23:25 CST Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA02524; Fri, 21 Jan 94 09:22:52 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA26970; Fri, 21 Jan 94 09:22:48 CST Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 09:22:48 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9401211522.AA26970@faith.mcc.com> To: sackman@plains.nodak.edu, METITIER@itocsivm.csi.it, paul@cni.org, gak@eit.com, weber@eit.com, Wayne@dir.texas.gov, Klonsinski_M@dir.texas.gov, all-iceimt@einet.net, Crosenbe@tecnet.me.tufts.edu, rparsons@micf.nist.gov, hart@cme.nist.gov Subject: New Directory Services Forwarding: Mail from 'wa@mcc.com (Wayne Allen)' dated: Thu, 20 Jan 94 23:02:03 CST Cc: galaxy@einet.net, kushner@mcc.com, williams@mcc.com, johnson@mcc.com The enclosed message announces EINet Galaxy. We want to ensure that people find this new network resource beneficial and we encourage your feedback by electronic mail to: galaxy@einet.net We'll be continously improving Galaxy over the upcoming months. Also available electronically (and through the Galaxy) are Press Releases for the Galaxy and SprintLinkPlus debut at COMNET next week (1/25) and the EINet TRP and MADE government awards. Send me (speyer@einet.net) a message if you would like an email PR copy. Access to EINet Galaxy is at http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html Regards, -Bruce ---------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 23:02:03 CST From: wa@mcc.com (Wayne Allen) To: www-announce@www0.cern.ch Subject: New Directory Services! EINet would like to announce an *experimental* World Wide Web-based directory service called the EINet Galaxy. The need for such a directory stems from the sheer size and diversity of information available on the Internet today. In this environment, the ability of any one user to find and access information in a timely fashion depends on directory (location) services that can quickly point to the most promising sources of service or information. Such a directory must also reflect the ever-changing landscape of information, so that new information is made visible quickly, and stale information references are purged. EINet has recently been a participant in several government awards aimed at promoting electronic commerce. EINet expects the Galaxy to become a model for the kind of directory services used for electronic commerce and believes that these government efforts will identify the necessary features of a global electronic commerce directory. We have used both manual and automated techniques to identify and classify sources of information on the Internet. This effort has included looks at Gopher sites, WAIS sites, and WEB sites. The information has been indexed and is searchable. Thus, a user should be able to reach useful information in a small number of steps. Caveat: the Gopher references are culled from the Veronica dataset, and some number of them are now stale. We will do our best to keep our information as up-to-date as possible. We hope to improve our data collection procedures and the information content over time. EINet has a growing staff dedicated to this task. All comments, suggestions, etc. are invited. Feel free to contact the galaxy staff via email at galaxy@einet.net. Access to EINet Galaxy is at http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html Cheers! -- wa | Wayne Allen, EINet - wa@einet.net | MCC/ISD, 3500 West Balcones Center Dr, Austin, Tx 78759 ----------- End Forwarded Message ----------- From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Tue Jan 25 18:57:03 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22231; Tue, 25 Jan 94 18:57:03 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA14231; Tue, 25 Jan 94 18:57:00 CST Received: by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA02989; Tue, 25 Jan 94 16:56:57 PST Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:56:56 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Stanford Design Workshop Cc: leifer@sunrise.stanford.edu Message-Id: (This announcement is also available with graphics on the World Wide Web using the following URL: http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/EXPE/expe.html) Announcing EXPE: The Stanford Design EXPErience A three-day interactive event for design professionals March 24th -26th, 1994 "A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes For three days, we invite you to Stanford to leave behind your day-to-day operational concerns and explore the design process as you never have before. The lone designer armed only with a good idea, a pencil, and a pad of paper is nearly extinct. Good ideas are still key. But the products that define our existence, make our work easier (or more complex), enhance our lifestyles, educate our children, create our leisure pleasures, and save our lives are designed by teams and manufactured in collaborative, technologically-complex environments. The Stanford Design EXPErience is a hands-on, interactive opportunity to develop important skills and insights into the design process. If you are a manager of design, research and development, marketing, or a function affected by design; a design educator; a product designer; or a member of a company design team, this conference is for you. The Expert Teams Chrysler attracted international attention for its success in bringing the innovative and reasonably priced LH line to market in record time. WET Design, with a staff of only 48 designers, engineers, and support staff, creates state-of-the-art, high-tech fountains, and other water projects for office buildings, civic centers, theme parks, and shopping centers around the world. Xerox PARC has long had a reputation for innovation in the information field. In doing so it has evolved unique approaches to defining user needs and improving user-machine compatibility. Pacific Data Images, a leader in providing computer-based special effects to the entertainment industry, is credited with developing morphing and many other highly creative techniques. Caterpillar is well known for its innovative products and the successful defense of its market against foreign competition. The company has recently reorganized along product and service lines to take even better advantage of its design capability. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, famous for its lunar and planetary spacecraft from Ranger through Voyager to Magellan, is presently forming a new design center utilizing advanced computer capability to allow better integration of mission analysis and flight operations with the design of space systems, and to significantly reduce costs. The Stanford Design Division, part of the Stanford Engineering Schools Mechanical Engineering Department, was founded in 1958. Today it is considered one of the finest engineering design programs in the world. Its philosophy combines an emphasis on creativity, technology, and design methodology, with a concern for human values and the needs of society. One of its long-standing strengths has been close collaboration with other fields, including: art, computer science, medicine, business, and the behavioral sciences. Student interests range from mathematical analysis to performing arts, from finite element analysis to manufacturing technology, and from bulldozers to micro-machines. At the Stanford Design EXPErience, you will have the opportunity to talk, dine, argue, and problem-solve with experts on creativity and design, including: Mark Fuller, president and founder, WET Design Larry Leifer, director, Center for Design Research, Stanford David Liddle, president, Interval Research Corporation Drew Nelson, director, Product Testing Program, Stanford Sheri Sheppard, co-principal investigator, National Science Foundation Synthesis Coalition Bernie Roth, co-director, Creativity in Engineering Design Education Workshop, Stanford Brenda Laurel, Interval Research Corporation Mark Cutkosky, director, Manufacturing Sciences Lab, Stanford Carl Rosendahl, president and founder, Pacific Data Images Jim Adams, author of Conceptual Blockbusting and consultant on innovation in organizations Rolf Faste, director, Product Design Program, Stanford John Chowning, founder, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford David Kelley, president, IDEO Phil Barkan, professor emeritus, Design, Stanford Kane Casani, manager, Implementation Development Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Steve Holt, Strategic Design Manager and Design Visionary, Frog design Dennis Carter, director, Biomechanical Engineering Program, Stanford Howard Padgham, executive engineer, LH programs, Chrysler David Beach, director, Product Realization Lab, Stanford Bill Verplank, Interval Research Corporation Scott Minneman, research staff, Xerox PARC Doug Wilde, co-director, Creativity in Engineering Design Education Workshop, Stanford Bill Moggeridge, IDEO Ilan Kroo, associate professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford Ed Carryer, president, Creative Applications Engineering Edith Wilson, manager, Product Definition Program, Hewlett Packard Steve Harrison, research staff, Xerox PARC Tom Kenny, director, Micro-mechatronics Lab, Stanford Presentations and Demonstrations Join six organizations that employ sophisticated technologies and teams in the development of products that represent true breakthroughs in design. Team members from Chrysler, WET Design, Xerox PARC, Pacific Data Images, Caterpillar, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will offer insightful new perspectives into successful product development. The Stanford Design EXPErience also includes demonstrations, a field trip, and opportunities for informal conversation with presenters and other participants. Two evening performances, Design as Theater and Design and Music offer special and unusual views of the design experience. Lessons from unusually successful designers and design teams will introduce you to new ways of utilizing computers and information technology in design. An Interactive Team Exercise The Stanford Design EXPErience will immerse you in a hands-on, need-finding and problem-solving exercise, using processes developed in partnership with Interval Research Corporation, Xerox PARC, and Stanford's Design Division. Participants from across professional lines will form teams to explore first-hand the structure of the design process. Team members will be encouraged to bring their own design issues and problems, and share them with peers and experts to find new solutions. After participating in the interactive team exercise, participants will take home new insights into the dynamics of interdisciplinary design, new tools for collaborative design, and membership in a growing community of professionals who have had the Stanford design experience. Schedule March 24 March 25 March 26 Presentations and Demonstrations WET Design Chrysler Jet Propulsion Lab Caterpillar Pacific Data Images Xerox PARC L u n c h a n d C o n v e r s a t i o n An Interactive Team Exercise Team Presentations You and Xerox PARC, Interval Research Corporation, the Stanford Center for Design Research, Summing Up and the Stanford Product Design Program Hands-on demos, conversation, reflection Reception on the team experience, field trip D i n n e r a n d C o n v e r s a t i o n Design as Theater Design as Music Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 24. Presentations begin each day, followed by the interactive team exercise. Luncheons each day and dinner on Thursday and Friday are included, as are evening activities. The Stanford Design EXPErience will end with a summation and a closing reception on Saturday afternoon. Fees and Registration We urge you to take advantage of a fee structure that encourages team participation. Bring your own teams, teams that already exist in your organization or teams that should be formed. Individual $1,250 Teams, first member $1,250 Additional team members $ 900 each To apply for the team discount, simply check the group rate box on the application form and submit all applications together. Fees cover all presentations, exercises, performances, materials, three luncheons, and two dinners. Pre-registration for the Stanford Design EXPErience is required. Please complete the registration form and return with a check, made payable to M.E. Design Experience, to: Stanford University M. E. Design Division Terman 551 Stanford, California 94305-4021 Upon receipt of your registration, we will send you confirmation, a list of hotels in the area, additional information on the program, and a map directing you to the Stanford campus. Lodging We have reserved a block of rooms at the Palo Alto Holiday Inn, directly across from the campus. Reservations should be made by March 10 and can be made by calling 1-800-874-3516. Please mention the Stanford Design EXPErience. Cancellation Policy Should you need to cancel, a full refund, minus 15%, will be made if written notification is received no later than March 15, 1994. After that time no refund will be made; however, a substitute participant will be accepted into the program. For more information or additional brochures, call Kristin Burns, Design Division: (415) 723-4287, or email kristin@sunrise.stanford.edu Registration Form Name Title If your title is not self-explanatory, please describe your principal responsibilities Company/University Address City State Zip Phone FAX I wish to attend the Stanford Design EXPErience. My registration form and a check for $ _________ is enclosed. I wish to take advantage of the team discount. A total of _____ people >From my organization will attend. Our registration forms and a check for $___________ are enclosed. The Stanford Design EXPErience is brought to you in part by members of the Stanford Design Affiliates Program: 3M Company Apple Computer Company Applied Materials Corporation Baxter Healthcare BMW of North America Boeing Commercial Airplanes Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Western Research Lab FMC Corporation Ford Motor Company General Motors Hewlett Packard Hughes Aircraft Company Lockheed Research Labs McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company MIPS Computer Systems. Inc. Nikon Precision, Inc. Peterbilt Motors Co. The Proctor & Gamble Company Raychem Corporation Specialized Bicycle Components Teledyne MEC Volvo Cars of North America, Inc. Warner-Lambert Co. (Schick Razors and Blades) Western Digital Imaging Weyerhaeuser Company ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://gummo.stanford.edu/ From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Wed Feb 2 12:08:45 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09965; Wed, 2 Feb 94 12:08:45 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA26527; Wed, 2 Feb 94 12:08:16 CST Received: from localhost by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (8.6.4/inc-1.0) id KAA18323; Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:08:05 -0800 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:08:04 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ext-ei@mcc.com, share@sunrise.stanford.edu Subject: CoopIS Conference Call Message-Id: P R E L I M I N A R Y C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N C o o p I S - 9 4 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS May 17-20, 1994 Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada Supported by the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario Sponsored by the University of Toronto In cooperation with ACM SIGOIS and ACM SIGMOD This and other information concerning CoopIS-94 is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.toronto.edu (directory /pub/coopis) or via e-mail to coopis@cs.toronto.edu. This document includes: A. Conference Motivation and Description B. Tutorial Program C. Preliminary Program D. Registration Forms E. Organizing and Program Committees ============================================================================== A. Conference Motivation and Description ===================================== TSUNAMI - THE TIDAL WAVE IS HERE -------------------------------- Within most organizations, worldwide, mission critical information systems (ISs) already cooperate or are being converted to do so to meet basic business requirements. Due to the lack of appropriate concepts, techniques, and tools, this is being done using in an ad hoc fashion, thereby creating problems that will dwarf those of current legacy information systems. This conference is devoted to addressing this tidal wave facing the information systems community. COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: THE NEXT GENERATION AND THE CHALLENGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The paradigm for the next generation of ISs will involve large numbers of ISs distributed over large, complex computer/communication networks. Such systems will range from the vast and visionary Electronic Superhighway, to the large and complex billing system of a telephone company, an even to the small patient information system in a one-doctor office. Moreover, such ISs will manage or have access to large amounts of information and computing services and will support individual or collaborative human work. Computation will be conducted concurrently over the network by software systems that range from conventional to advanced application systems including expert systems, and multiagent planning systems. Information and services will be available in many forms through legacy and new information repositories that support a host of information services. Communication among component systems will be done in a centralized or distributed fashion, using communication protocols that range from conventional ones to those based on distributed AI. We call such next generation ISs Cooperative Information Systems (CIS). Soon, the operation of a one-doctor office may critically depend on its ISs' ability to cooperate with foreign ISs not just for reimbursement (i.e., required by insurance organizations) but also for patients (e.g., exchanging information in medical crises). Demand for more efficient processes and use of all resources will come from economic and business conditions (e.g., competition, imperative for wider marketplaces, and cooperation and distribution in the production of goods and services) that have led to downsizing and re-engineering . IS technology, one of the largest costs of many organizations, can be the problem, or part of the solution. The demands are pervasive from vast organizations to very small. The requirements span conventional organizational and legal boundaries such as countries, companies (e.g., virtual companies), disciplines (e.g., concurrent engineering spanning a products entire life span). The CIS paradigm is evolving to meet these demands thus raising challenges for the supporting technologies. Unlike previous major computing advances based on single technologies, the CIS paradigm will evolve from the integration of many, currently disjoint technologies. Database Systems will contribute information management techniques, particularly for distributed or heterogeneous databases, as well as efficient implementation techniques for information bases. Artificial Intelligence will contribute knowledge representation and reasoning techniques, on the one hand, and distributed problem solving and planning techniques in a multiagent environment on the other. Operating Systems will contribute resource management techniques over large distributed computer/communications networks. Programming Languages will contribute languages and type/object systems for cooperative programming. Software/Knowledge/Information Engineering will contribute design and development environments/shells and methodologies for CIS development and evolution. Computer Communications will provide the necessary underlying communication and interconnection technology. Other relevant technologies include: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Distributed Computing, Organizational Computing, and Interoperability. The challenge is to effectively combine these research areas and the technologies they have generated to meet CIS requirements. THE CONFERENCE -------------- CoopIS-94 will be a forum for researchers and IS professionals to explore cooperative information systems concepts, to identify research challenges and relevant technologies. The conference program includes one day (Tuesday, May 17) dedicated to 1/2 day tutorials and three days (Wednesday-Friday, May 18-20) of invited talks, technical presentations, panels and more tutorials. LOCATION -------- The conference is being held at the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto, 20 minutes from the Pearson International Airport and within walking distance from the Toronto waterfront, the theater district, the Toronto concert hall, the CN tower and the Skydome, home ground of the world champion Blue Jay baseball team. ============================================================================== B. TUTORIAL PROGRAMME ======================================================== Michael L. Brodie, GTE Labs, "Interoperable Information Systems", Tuesday, May 17th (morning) Yair Wand and Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, "Object-Oriented Analysis of Organizational Activities", Tuesday, May 17th (morning) Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, "Towards Business Process Management Systems", Tuesday, May 17th (afternoon) Hausi Mueller, University of Victoria, "Understanding Software Systems Using Reverse Engineering Technologies: Practice and Research", Tuesday, May 17th (afternoon) Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, MCC, "Distributed Artificial Intelligence For Information Systems", Wednesday, May 18th (afternoon) Christine Parent, University of Burgundy, and Stefano Spaccapietra, EPF Lausanne, "Federated Database Design", Thursday, May 19th (afternoon) Omar Bukhres and Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, "Extended Transaction Models For Non-Conventional Applications", Friday, May 20th (afternoon) ============================================================================== C. PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME=========================================== +-------------------------------------------+ | Wednesday, May 18th | +-------------------------------------------+ 9:00 - 9:15 Opening Session 9:15 - 10:30 Keynote Talk, "Impact of Model Evolution on Data Modelling", Charles W. Bachman, Bachman Information Systems, USA 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 Two Parallel Paper Sessions Session 1: CIS DESIGN + "Ontologies for Enterprise Integration", Mark S. Fox, Michael Gruninger, Canada + "Design Considerations for an Accident Management System", Bernd Bruegge, Kevin O'Toole, David Rothenberger, USA + "Animating Formal Requirements Specifications of Cooperative Information Systems", Eric Dubois, Phillippe Du Bois, Frederic DuBru; Belgium Session 2: CIS AGENTS + "An Architecture for Dynamically Interacting Agents", Joerg P. Mueller, Markus Pische, Germany + "An Architecture for Information Retrieval Agents", Craig A. Knoblock, Yigal Arens, USA + "Towards CIS in Quality Management - Integration of Agents and Methods", Robert Grob, Stephan Jacobs, Stefanie Kethers, Germany 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 Paper Session 3: CIS APPLICATIONS + "The Information Marketplace: The Challenge of Information Commerce", Steve Laufmann, USA + "Cooperative Information Systems in Integrated Manufacturing Environments", F. Vernadat, France + "Multidatabase Interoperability in Health Care Legacy Applications: Research and Experience", John Murphy, Jane Grimson, Ireland 3:30 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 5:30 Panel, CIS Applications, Chairman: Jacob Slonim, IBM, Canada +-------------------------------------------+ | Thursday, May 19th | +-------------------------------------------+ 9:00-10:30 Keynote Talk, "Core Technologies For Future/Cooperative Information Systems", Dr. Philip Bernstein, Digital Equipment Corp., USA 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 Two Parallel Paper Sessions Session 4:CIS INTEROPERABILITY AND TRANSACTIONS + "Specifying Flexible Tasks in a Multi-database", Marian H. Nodine, Noela Nakos, Stanley B. Zdonik, USA + "Specification and Verification of Communication Constraints for Interoperable Transactions", A. Ngu, R. Meersman, H. Weigand, Australia + "Managing Global Information in the CORDS Multidatabase System", Michael Bauer, Neil Coburn, Per-Ake Larsen, Patrick Martin, Canada Session 5: CIS QUERIES I + "Query-Free Information Retrieval", Peter E. Hart, Jamey Graham, USA + "Cooperative Query Answering Using Multiple Layered Databases", Jiawei Han, Yongjian Fu, and Raymond Ng, Canada 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 Paper Session 6: CIS PROGRAMMING + "Team Oriented Programming: Preliminary Report", G. Tildhar, Australia + "An Object-Oriented Foundation for Desktop Computing", Oliver Gruber, Patrick Valduriez, France + "An Object-Oriented Programming Environment for Multimedia Cooperative Information System", Silvano Pozzi, Luca Giachino, Italy 3:30 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 5:30 Panel, Technologies and Standards For CIS and Interoperability", Chairmen: Frank Manola, GTE Laboratories Incorporated and Dr. Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories +-------------------------------------------+ | Friday, May 20th | +-------------------------------------------+ 9:00-10:30 Keynote Talk, "Re-engineering Businesses: New Approaches to Information Systems Development and Migration", Dr. Daniel Ries, Progress Software, USA 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Two Parallel Paper Sessions Session 7: CIS Semantics and Consistency + "Semantic Interoperability - Context, Issues, and Research Directions", Hasan Jamil, Paul Johannesson, Sweden + "Using Truth Maintenance Systems to the Data Consistency Problem", Khalil el Hindi, Brian Lings, United Kingdom Session 8: CIS Queries II + "Query Translation Supporting the Migration of Legacy Databases into Cooperative Information Systems", Daniel A. Keim, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Andreas Miethsam, Germany + "Query Transformation Techniques for Interoperable Query Processing in Cooperative Information Systems", Louiqa Raschid, Yahui Chang, Bonnie J. Dorr, USA 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:30 Paper Session 9: CIS Cooperation and Collaboration + "Cooperative Modeling in Applied Geographic Research", G. Alonso, A. El Abbadi, USA + "The Role of Commitment in Cooperative Negotiation", Sadip Sen, Edmund H. Durfee, USA + "Control of Collaboration within Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems", Rainer Unland, Germany + "Cooperation in Distributed Medical Care", Jun Huang, Nick R. Jennings, John Fox, United Kingdom 3:30 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 5:30 Panel, "Cooperative Information Systems", Chairman: Michael L. Brodie, GTE Laboratories Incorporated ============================================================================== D. REGISTRATION FORM========================================================== ************************ COOPIS-94 REGISTRATION FORM ******************** Second International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-94) Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 17-20, 1994 COOPIS-94 REGISTRATION FORM Last Name: First Name: Name for Badge: Organization: Address: City: Prov/State: Zip Code: Tel: ( ) Fax: ( ) E-Mail: Registration: Advance Late ------------ (Before April 17th) (After April 17th) General $450.00 CDN ( ) $500.00 CDN ( ) $340.00 US ( ) $375.00 US ( ) Student(*) $200.00 CDN ( ) $150.00 US ( ) One-day $200.00 CDN ( ) $250.00 CDN ( ) $150.00 US ( ) $190.00 US ( ) AMOUNT ________ CDN ( ) US ( ) (*) Proof of Status is required. Photocopy of picture card and student i.d. number must accompany payment. General and student registration privileges include participation in tutorials as well as the technical program, copies of the conference proceedings, tutorials notes for all tutorials and a ticket to the banquet dinner. One-day-registration includes participation privileges for one day and a copy of the conference program or the tutorial notes. Please make cheque or bank draft payable to: University of Toronto, CoopIS-94 and mail to the following address: CoopIS-94 Registration c/o Marina Haloulos University of Toronto Department of Computer Science 6 King's College Road, Room 283 Toronto, ON M5S 1A4, CANADA Mail, fax or email your registration to: University of Toronto (address above), (416) 978-1455 or email: coopis@cs.toronto.edu (GST #R108162330) Upon receipt of registration form and cheque/bank draft, acknowledgments will be sent by e-mail to the address listed. Written requests for refunds must be sent to Marina Haloulos no later than April 30, 1994. Refunds are subject to a $50 processing fee. All no-show registrations will be billed in full. Students are required to show current picture ID cards at the registration desk. Tutorials --------- Please indicate which tutorials are of greatest interest to you. This will help us to plan and make the tutorial program more convenient for you. ( ) Michael L. Brodie, GTE Labs, "Interoperable Information Systems", Tuesday, May 17th (morning) ( ) Yair Wand and Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, "Object-Oriented Analysis of Organizational Activities", Tuesday, May 17th (morning) ( ) Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, "Towards Business Process Management Systems", Tuesday, May 17th (afternoon) ( ) Hausi Mueller, University of Victoria, "Understanding Software Systems Using Reverse Engineering Technologies: Practice and Research", Tuesday, May 17th (afternoon) ( ) Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh, MCC, "Distributed Artificial Intelligence For Information Systems", Wednesday, May 18th (afternoon) ( ) Christine Parent, University of Burgundy, and Stefano Spaccapietra, EPF Lausanne, "Federated Database Design", Thursday, May 19th (afternoon) ( ) Omar Bukhres and Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, "Extended Transaction Models For Non-Conventional Applications", Friday, May 20th (afternoon) Hotel Information ----------------- The Royal York Hotel has blocked rooms for the conference and are available until April 17th. After this date, the rooms will be released and reservations will be on a first come, first serve basis, book early. Other hotels in the area are also holding rooms for the conference, and they are available until April 16th. Your reservations should be made directly with the hotel of your choice. A list of the hotels, their rates and phone numbers are listed below. Please refer to the conference (CoopIS-94) when making your reservation. Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street West Rate: $119.00 CDN/night, single/double occupancy, tel: (416) 368-2511 fax: (416) 368-2884 Crown Plaza Toronto Centre (formerly L'Hotel), 225 Front Street West located next to the Skydome and within a 10 minute walk to the Royal York. Rate: $135.00 CDN/night, single/double occupancy, tel: (416) 597-1400 fax: (416) 596-8162 Westin Harbour Castle, One Harbour Square located on the harbourfront and within a 15 minute walk to the Royal York. Rate: $130.00 CDN/night, single/double occupancy, tel: (416) 869-1600 fax: (416) 361-7448 Novotel Toronto Centre, 45 The Esplanade located near the harbourfront and within a 10 minute walk to the Royal York. Rate: $79.00 CDN/night, single/double occupancy, tel: (416) 367-8900 fax: (416) 360-8285 ============================================================================== E. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES========================================== GENERAL CHAIR ------------- John Mylopoulos Dept. Computer Science University of Toronto 6 King's College Road, Toronto M5S 1A4, Canada jm@cs.toronto.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- America (North & South) Europe & Middle East Far East, Africa, Australia Michael L. Brodie Matthias Jarke Mike P. Papazoglou Distributed Object Informatik V School of Computing Department Information Systems GTE Laboratories Incorporated RWTH Aachen Queensland Univ. Technology 40 Sylvan Road Ahornstr. 55 GPO Box 2434 Waltham, MA 02254, USA 52074 Aachen, Germany Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia brodie@gte.com jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de mikep@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Philip A. Bernstein (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) Patrick Bobbie (USA) Wolfgang Nejdl (Germany) Alexander Borgida (USA) Anne Ngu (Australia) Manfred Broy (Germany) Maurizio Panti (Italy) Tung Bui (Hong-Kong) Charles Petrie (USA) Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Misbah Deen (UK) Daniel R. Ries (USA) Lois M.L. Delcambre (USA) Bob Rockwell (Germany) Eric Dubois (Belgium) Marek E. Rusinkiewicz (USA) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) Josef Schaefer (Germany) Opher Etzion (Israel) Hans Schek (Switzerland) Less Gasser (USA) Gunter Schlagter (Germany) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Timos Sellis (Greece) Karen Huff (USA) Amit P. Sheth (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Abraham Silberschatz (USA) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Dimitri Karagiannis (Austria) Stefano Spaccapietra William Kent (USA) (Switzerland) Steven C. Laufmann (USA) Ronald Stamper (Holland) Ron Lee (Holland) Michael Stonebraker (USA) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Zahir Tari (Australia) Victor Lesser (USA) Patrick Valduriez (France) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) Carson Woo (Canada) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) Yelena Yesha (Baltimore) Frank A. Manola (USA) Norihiko Yoshida (Japan) Louis Marinos (Germany) John Zeleznikow (Australia) __________________________________________________________________ Michael L. Brodie (brodie@gte.com) GTE Laboratories Incorporated Phone:(617)466-2256 40 Sylvan Road, MS-62 FAX:(617) 466-2439 Waltham, MA 02254 USA ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://gummo.stanford.edu/ From mklein@atc.boeing.com Fri Feb 11 12:06:43 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07880; Fri, 11 Feb 94 12:06:43 CST Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07391; Fri, 11 Feb 94 12:06:27 CST Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA09368; Fri, 11 Feb 94 09:54:11 -0800 Received: from by grace.rt.cs.boeing.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AB09053; Fri, 11 Feb 94 09:51:24 PST Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 09:51:24 PST Message-Id: <9402111751.AB09053@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com> To: mklein@atc.einet.net From: mklein@atc.boeing.com X-Sender: mklein@grace Subject: Final CFP: CERA Special Issue on Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) - An International Journal: Special Issue on Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering This special issue will focus on how computer technology can support more effective avoidance, detection and resolution of conflicts in concurrent engineering settings. The intent is to gather together an multi-disciplinary collection of work from the many fields (e.g. distributed artificial intelligence, organizational science, computer-supported cooperative work, group decision support systems) relevant to this important challenge. Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length, and should include a title page with the authors' full names, affiliations, physical and email addresses. Papers not included in the special issue will be considered for presentation at the CERA'94 Conference to be held in August 1994. o Five copies of the full manuscript are due March 1, 1994. o Notification of acceptance is June 1, 1994. o Final version of the manuscript is due August 1, 1994. SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUESTIONS TO Express Mail Address: Mark Klein, PhD Guest Editor, CERA Special Issue Boeing Computer Services Building 33-08, Mailstop 7L-44 2710 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA Regular Mail Address: Mark Klein, PhD Guest Editor, CERA Special Issue Boeing Computer Services Mailstop 7L-44 PO Box 24346 Seattle WA 98124-0346 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com From jago@iist.unu.edu Wed Mar 2 21:00:10 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22008; Wed, 2 Mar 94 21:00:10 CST Received: from hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA00504; Wed, 2 Mar 94 20:55:13 CST Received: from [192.203.232.5] by hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA05604; Thu, 3 Mar 94 10:54:59 +0800 Received: from thor.iist.unu.edu by iist.unu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04399; Thu, 3 Mar 94 10:55:15 HKT Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 10:55:15 HKT From: jago@iist.unu.edu ( Jan Goossenaerts) Message-Id: <9403030255.AA04399@iist.unu.edu> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: Work-session on lean/agile manufacturing Further to the discussions at the DIISM'93 Workshop and in line with my current work at UNU/IIST (the MI2CI Project) enclosed please find the outline of a session which will be organized at the INTERNATIONAL DEDICATED CONFERENCE ON LEAN/AGILE MANUFACTURING IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES during the 27th International Symposium on Advanced Transportation Applications Aachen, Germany 31st October-4th November 1994 Session Title: Manufacturing Industry Information and Command Interfaces and Lean/Agile Manufacturing in the Automotive Industries Session Organiser: Dr Jan Goossenaerts, Visiting Research Associate, United Nations University/International Institute of Software Technology (UNU/IIST), Macau Session Outline: Environment-friendly automotive industries should produce vehicles with low "Material Intensity per Unit Service" (MIPS). High-quality durable vehicles perform better in terms of MIPS, but cause finite markets to evolve from high-growth towards low-replenishment/ no-repair markets. This causes over-capacity for company-networks scaled to growth markets. A lean and agile network of manufacturing enterprises should avoid over-capacity by targeting excess capabilities on real new market demands. Responses to altering economic environments by automotive industries require multi-enterprise engineering innovations and improvements. Supporting these requires applications that push the current state of information technology. This session will identify the requirements of inter-organisational engineering and business systems for lean/agile supply-based industries. It intends to draw on reports about leading-edge supply-chain strategies and practices in the automotive industries, and aims to further--through discussion--mutual understanding about the information technology (and other) pre-requisites for lean/agile supply-based industries world-wide. Note: To support the development of lean/agile manufacturing industries in developing countries, UNU/IIST is doing a Feasibility Study for the MI2CI Project (Manufacturing Industry Information and Command Interfaces. Contributions to this session will be scrutinized for relevance and applicability in the MI2CI Project. Practical Details: Abstracts for contributions to this session should be submitted, by March 14 or soon after, by fax or mail to both: ISATA Secretariat (Lean/Agile Manufacturing) 42 Lloyd Park Avenue Croydon, CR0 5SB England telephone: +44-81-681-3069 telefax: +44-81-686-1490 email: 100270.1263@compuserve.com and Dr. Jan Goossenaerts UNU/IIST P.O. Box 3058 Macau telephone: +853-712.930 telefax: 853-712.940 email: jago@iist.unu.edu After acceptance of the abstracts, draft manuscripts should be received on May 16, 1994. Final Papers on July 18, 1994 \\ Please refer to the Call for Papers (to receive this, please contact ISATA Secretariat) for additional information about the conference. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Mailing address: | | | ----------------- | | | Jan Goossenaerts | E-mail: jago@iist.unu.edu | | Visiting Researcher | | | UNU/IIST | Fax: +853-712.940 | | P.O.Box 3058 | Phone: +853-712.930 | | Macau | | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Visiting address: UNU/IIST | | ---------------- 18/F Ed. Banco Luso Internacional | | 1-3, Rua Dr. Pedro Jose Lobo | | Macau | +---------------------------------------------------------+ From lander@cs.umass.edu Thu Mar 3 13:15:49 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07114; Thu, 3 Mar 94 13:15:49 CST Received: from cs.umass.edu (freya.cs.umass.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA01948; Thu, 3 Mar 94 13:15:46 CST Received: by cs.umass.edu (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA23424; Thu, 3 Mar 94 14:15:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 14:15:21 -0500 From: lander@cs.umass.edu (SUSAN LANDER) Message-Id: <9403031915.AA23424@cs.umass.edu> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Final CFP: AAAI-94 Workshop on Models of Conflict Management ****************************************************************************** * * * FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * * * THE AAAI-94 WORKSHOP ON MODELS OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT * * IN COOPERATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING * * * * Seattle, Washington * * * ****************************************************************************** Workshop Description -------------------- A central aspect of cooperative problem solving is the avoidance, detection, use, and resolution of conflicts among group members. Therefore, conflict management is of great theoretical and practical interest in the development of models of multiagent problem solving. Work on conflict management has occurred in a variety of settings including Multiagent Planning and Design, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Integration, Group Decision Support Systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Software Engineering, Sociology, Organizational Science, and International Relations. The goal of the workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers from diverse fields to exchange ideas and promote discussion about models of conflict management. Through exploring common themes, it is hoped the participants will better understand related work from other areas, and can begin to outline a general theory of conflict management across multiple domains. The workshop also aims to encourage progress toward better models of conflict management and better tools for supporting it. Topics ------ Papers are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics: o What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management, and how can they be applied to practical problems? o How and where are theoretical and computational models of conflict management being used today? How do these models fare in real-world environments? o What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer for the development of the next generation of computational models? o How can computers support group conflict management? What are the benefits and challenges of the different approaches? o Which aspects of conflict management are generic and which are domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational participants? Format ------ This full-day workshop will consist of four moderated sessions, each focusing on a primary subject area and including: o a moderator's overview of common themes and key issues o presentations of selected papers by workshop participants: presenters will be asked to address key issues identified by the moderators o a discussion panel, focusing on shared issues rather than on further explanation of participants' individual work. Workshop participants will also be invited to display posters describing their work. Attendance: ----------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people. Submission Requirements: ----------------------- Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit either: 1) four copies of a brief research summary and statement of interest; or 2) those who wish to present current research at the workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract (no longer than 6 pages), focusing on the main contribution of the work in preference to introductory material, literature review, etc. Please include a list of keywords (e.g, design, planning, CSCW, etc.), the authors' electronic and physical address information, and indicate if you would like to display a poster at the workshop. Either hard-copy or email submissions are welcome. Submissions and questions regarding this workshop can be directed to: Mark Klein or Susan Lander Boeing Computer Services Computer Science Department P.O. Box 24346, 7L-64 University of Massachusetts Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA Amherst, MA 01003 USA mklein@atc.boeing.com lander@cs.umass.edu Voice: (206) 865-3412 Voice: (413) 545-0675 Fax: (206) 865-2964 Fax: (413) 545-1249 Submission Deadline: March 18, 1994 -------------------- Notification Date: April 8, 1994 ------------------ Workshop Date: -------------- The workshop is part of the workshop program of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) in Seattle Washington. Workshops will be held July 31--August 4, 1994, the precise date of this workshop has not yet been scheduled. Workshop Committee: ------------------- Mark Klein (co-chair) Susan Lander (co-chair) Boeing Computer Services University of Massachusetts mklein@atc.boeing.com lander@cs.umass.edu D.C. Brown Stephen Lu Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Illinois dcb@cs.wpi.edu lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu V. Jagganathan D. Sriram CERC, West Virginia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology juggy@cerc.wvu.edu sriram@athena.mit.edu Simon Kaplan Katia Sycara University of Illinois Carnegie Mellon University kaplan@marula.cs.uiuc.edu sycara@isl1.ri.cmu.edu Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts lesser@cs.umass.edu From smith@lia.di.epfl.ch Fri Mar 18 02:18:01 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA14987; Fri, 18 Mar 94 02:18:01 CST Received: from liasun8.epfl.ch by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA02905; Fri, 18 Mar 94 02:17:44 CST Received: by liasun8.epfl.ch (Smail3.1.28.1 #16) id m0phZkU-000026C; Fri, 18 Mar 94 09:17 MET Message-Id: Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 09:17 MET From: smith@lia.di.epfl.ch (Ian Smith) To: all-iceimt@einet.net CALL FOR PAPERS AID94 WORKSHOP - Lausanne, Switzerland Title : Conflict Management in Design Date : Saturday August 13, 1994 Time : 8h45 - 12h45 Convener : Ian Smith, LIA-DI Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland smith@lia.di.epfl.ch Most design tasks involve the management of conflict. Conflict arises when contradictory requirements are imposed upon characteristics of artifacts, upon the process of their creation and/or upon their intended use. Even individual design requires trade-offs because of competing design criteria, such as safety, cost and social acceptance, as well as artifact requirements and specifications. The ability of designers to avoid or minimize conflict through judicious tradeoffs and other methods is one of their most valuable skills. Resolution and detection of conflicts are especially difficult when the design task as well as knowledge concerning such competing factors are distributed among different actors with different perspectives. This workshop will focus upon problems and technical approaches related to cooperative design. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of ideas among researchers who are developing strategies for conflict management. Methods such as negotiation, hierarchical structures, constraint weakening, creation of new variables and user interaction will be examined and compared. An important outcome of the workshop will be a greater understanding of when certain methods are most effective and whether certain combinations of methods show potential. GUEST SPEAKER Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University PARTICIPANTS The workshop is limited to 20-30 participants. POSITION PAPERS Submissions should be short position papers or summaries of research work - this workshop is not intended to be mini-conference or a forum for rejected conference papers. DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION The deadline for submission of workshop papers is ** 2 June 1994. This allows time for papers to be reviewed and for the preparation of notes. Send two copies of each submission (no page numbers and not stapled) to Ian Smith Conflict Management Workshop LIA - DI EPFL 1015 Lausanne Switzerland If possible, please also send an email version (LaTex or ASCII for text files ; postscript for papers with figures) of your paper. WORKSHOP NOTES Workshop notes will be distributed to participants at the Workshop. The only format recommended for workshop papers will be the dimensions of the print area which should fit within an A4 page. REGISTRATION The Convenor will advise those people accepted for participation. Please note that only conference registrants may attend workshops. The workshop fee will be SFr 75. This is to cover administration, workshop notes and coffee break. INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE : Jacqueline Ayel, U of Savoie, F Dennis Bahler, NCSU, USA Mark Klein, Boeing, USA Steve Easterbrook, U of Sussex, GB William Mark, Lockheed, Palo Alto, USA Duv Sriram, MIT, USA Nel Wognum, U of Twente, NL ****************************************************************** Complete AID94 Workshop Programme ****************************************************************** SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 1994 ----------------------- 08:45--12:45 Smith: Conflict management Duffy et al: Machine learning 14:00--18:00 Smithers: Theory Alberts et al: Semantics SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 1994 --------------------- 08:45--12:45 Pu/Maher: Case-based design Chakrabarti et al: Function 14:00--18:00 Damski/Woodbury: Shapes Chung et al: Rationale Haroud et al: Constraints ******************************************************************* Main Conference Information ******************************************************************* +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DESIGN | | | | LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND | | 15-18 AUGUST 1994 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER ===================================== Douglas Hofstadter is Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, and Comparative Literature; and Director, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University. He has also held positions at the University of Michigan, MIT, and Stanford University, and has also been a columnist for Scientific American. Hofstadter gained his doctoral degree in theoretical physics in 1975 >from the University of Oregon. During his graduate studies in mathematics and physics, he also became deeply interested in both the potential of computers to imitate thought processes and the workings of the brain. He subsequently spent several years working out a set of interrelated ideas about minds, machines, formal systems, self-reference, and consciousness, and brought them all together in an unusual book Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which utilised playful dialogues based on musical forms as well as straightforward chapters conveying many subtle ideas on those topics. Other books include The Mind's I (co-edited with philosopher Dan Dennett), and Metamagical Themas. Over the past fifteen years, Hofstadter and his graduate students have jointly developed several computer models of analogy-making in small but rich worlds, and a book summarising their research efforts, entitled Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, will appear soon. WORKSHOPS ========= Nine half-day workshops on special topics in artificial intelligence in design will be held on the weekend preceding the conference, 13-14 August 1994. CONFERENCE BROCHURE AND REGISTRATION FORM ========================================= The Conference Brochure and Registration Form, with detailed information about workshops, timetables, fees and accommodation, will be sent to you shortly. The following information is a brief guide for your budgeting purposes. Please do not try to register or book accommodation until you receive the Registration Form. REGISTRATION FEES (in SFr) ========================== Conference Registration Fee - includes technical sessions over 4 days, conference proceedings, reception, conference dinner, 4 lunches, am/pm coffees SFr675 Student Registration Fee (requires certification of student status from Department Head) - includes the same as above except for reception and conference (both of which can be purchased separately) SFr200 Accompanying person reception fee SFr40 Accompanying person dinner fee SFr120 Workshop fee (per workshop, no reduction for students) SFr75 ACCOMMODATION ============= (Prices in Swiss Francs per room, per night, continental breakfast, services and taxes included. Most hotels are in downtown Lausanne, and a 10-minute tram ride plus a 5-10 minute walk from the conference venue.) 4-star superior single SFr165 twin SFr215 3-star single SFr105-125 twin SFr170 Low-cost lodging single SFr45 twin SFr62-76 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS ==================== The conference is offering up to 20 scholarships to full-time students. These scholarships are aimed at allowing more students to participate in the conference and will cover the cost of registration. Application forms will be available from Fay Sudweeks, fay@arch.su.edu.au. LIST OF PAPERS SELECTED ======================= SESSION 1: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN ----------------------------- The role of computational prototypes in conceptual models for engineering design I. Donaldson, K. MacCallum University of Strathclyde, UK A two-step approach to conceptual design of mechanical devices A. Chakrabarti, T. P. Bligh University of Cambridge, UK Supporting creative mechanical design K. Sun, B. Faltings Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Analogical design: A model-based approach S. R. Bhatta*, A. K. Goel*, S. Prabhakar** *Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, **University of Technology, Sydney, Australia SESSION 2: CASE-BASED DESIGN--1 -------------------------------- Formalizing case adaptation in a case-based design system P. Pu*, L. Purvis** *Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, **University of Connecticut, USA ASA: an interactive assistant to architectural design A. Giretti, L. Spalazzi, M. Lemma Universite degli Studi di Ancona, Italy The design of a tool kit for case-based design aids E. A. Domeshek, J. L. Kolodner, C. M. Zimring Georgia Institute of Technology, USA SESSION 3: CASE-BASED DESIGN--2 -------------------------------- Using diagrams to access a case library of architectural designs M. D. Gross*, C. Zimrin,** E. Do** *University of Colorado, **Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Case based design in architecture B. Dave, G. Schmitt, B. Faltings, I. Smith Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Flexible retrieval strategies for case-based design M. L. Maher*, B. Balachandran** *University of Sydney, **University of Wollongong, Australia SESSION 4: CONFIGURATION DESIGN -------------------------------- Generating non-brittle configuration-design tools J. T. Runkel, A. Balkany, W. P. Birmingham University of Michigan, USA Configuration as model construction: The constructive problem solving approach M. Buchheit*, R. Klein**, W. Nutt* *DFKI, **Daimler-Benz Research, Germany An association model for CAD system Y. Aoki Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan SESSION 5: DESIGN BY GENERATION -------------------------------- Constraint unification grammars: specifying languages of parametric designs K. N. Brown, C. A. McMahon, J. H. Sims Williams University of Bristol, UK A knowledge based systems approach to the layout design of large made-to-order products G. Cleland, W. Hills University of Newcastle, UK Multiple design: an extension of routine design for generating multiple design alternatives A. Kamel, J. McDowell, J. Sticklen Michigan State University, USA SESSION 6: THEORETICAL REASONING IN DESIGN ------------------------------------------- Inferential design theory: A conceptual outline T. Arciszewski, R. S. Michalski George Mason University, USA Integration of aspects in design processes H. Takeda, T. Nishida Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Evidential reasoning based hierarchical analysis for design selection of ship retro-fit options J-B. Yang, P. Sen University of Newcastle, UK SESSION 7: DESIGNING WITH CONSTRAINTS -------------------------------------- Constraint based technology mapping in logic design S. Fujita, M. Iwamoto, M. Watanabe NEC Corporation, Japan An axiomatic approach that supports negotiated resolution of design conflicts in concurrent engineering D. Bahler*, C. Dupont*, J. Bowen** *North Carolina State University, USA, **University College, Ireland Genetic algorithms versus simulated annealing: satisfaction of large sets of algebraic mechanical design constraints A. C. Thornton University of Cambridge, UK SESSION 8: SHAPES AND OBJECTS IN DESIGN ---------------------------------------- Encoding explicit and implicit emergent subshapes based on empirical findings about human vision Y-T. Liu Harvard University, USA Object emergence in 3D using a data driven approach J. Gero, J. Damski University of Sydney, Australia Detecting gestalts in CAD-plans to be used as indices for case-retrieval in architecture J. W. Schaaf GMD, Germany SESSION 9: COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF DESIGN --------------------------------------- Perspective-based critiquing: Helping designers cope with conflicts among design intentions B. Harstad, K. Nakakoji, T. Sumner University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Knowledge based critiquing in direct manipulation design environments: showing the right thing and the right place M. Stolze University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Design fixation and intelligent design assistants A. T. Purcell, J. S. Gero, H. Edwards, E. Matka University of Sydney, Australia SESSION 10: MODELS OF DESIGN ----------------------------- Problem-oriented and task-oriented models of design in the commonKADS framework A. Bernaras Labein Laboratories, Spain Integrating bridge-design standards and synthesis knowledge using the YMIR ontology L. K. Alberts, F. Dikker University of Twente, The Netherlands On formal specification of design tasks F. M. T. Brazier, P. H. G. van Langen, Zs. Ruttkay, J. Treur Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands SESSION 11: INTEGRATED DESIGN ------------------------------ Specifying multiple representations of design objects in SORAC B. MacKellar*, J. Peckham** *Western Connecticut State University, **University of Rhode Island, USA Interpretation objects for multi-disciplinary design M. J. Clayton, R. Fruchter, H. Krawinkler, P. Teicholz Stanford University, USA Integrated computer support for interdisciplinary system design R. V. Chaplin, M. Li, V. K. Oh, X. T. Yan, J. E. E. Sharpe University of Lancaster, UK SESSION 12: ACCESS AND RETRIEVAL IN DESIGN ------------------------------------------- Design space navigation as a collaborative aid C. Petrie, M. Cutkosky, H. Park Stanford University, USA Retrieval of similar layouts--about a very hybrid approach in FABEL A. Voss*, B. Bartsch-Spoerl**, K. Boerner***, C-H Coulon*, H. Durschke****, W. Grather*, M. Knauff*****, B. Linowski*, J. W. Schaaf*, E. C. Tammer*** *GMD, **BSR Consulting, ***HTWK, ****TU, *****University of Freiburg, Germany Intelligent engineering component catalogs S. R. Bradley, A. M. Agogino University of California at Berkeley, USA SESSION 13: DESIGN PROCESSES ----------------------------- Generating design decomposition knowledge for parametric design problems J. Liu, D. C. Brown Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Design analysis based on fuzzy reasoning Q. Cao University of California at Berkeley, USA An approach to design support using fuzzy models of architectural objects: The case of luminous ambience in daylighting and sunlighting L. Mudri*, P. Perny**, P. Chauvel*** *Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, **Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, ***Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Nantes, France SESSION 14: ENGINEERING OF DESIGN ---------------------------------- Design-for-Assembly (DFA) by reverse engineering G. J. Kim, G. A. Bekey University of Southern California, USA Representing design history P. W. H. Chung, R. Goodwin Loughborough University of Technology, UK Bridging the gap between AI technology and design requirements S. Bakhtari, B. Bartsch-Spoerl BSR Consulting, Germany PEOPLE TO CONTACT ================= General conference and paper queries--technical: John Gero, john@arch.su.edu.au, fax +61-2-692 3031 General conference and paper queries--organisational: Fay Sudweeks, fay@arch.su.edu.au, fax +61-2-692 3031 Registration and related queries: Marie Decrauzat, aidws@lia.di.epfl.ch, fax +41-21-693 5225 Hotel bookings will be made through the Lausanne Tourist Office, details to appear in the Conference Brochure. From speyer@mcc.com Wed Mar 23 11:33:45 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08106; Wed, 23 Mar 94 11:33:45 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA12702; Wed, 23 Mar 94 11:33:42 CST Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA18696; Wed, 23 Mar 94 11:33:41 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA06263; Wed, 23 Mar 94 11:33:11 CST Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 11:33:11 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9403231733.AA06263@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: RSA Digital Signature Announcement Forwarding: Mail from 'carmin@sunvalley.mcc.com (Carmin McLaughlin)' dated: Wed, 23 Mar 94 10:11:00 CST FYI - More info: Kurt Stammberger, RSA Data Security, Inc. 415/595-8782 To download RSAREF and RIPEM, send any message to rsaref@rsa.com RSA DATA SECURITY ANNOUNCES DIGITAL SIGNATURE SOFTWARE THAT IS FREE AND LEGAL WORLDWIDE Information superhighway gets free tool to authenticate information; an answer to Vice-president Gore's concerns over Internet break-ins --------------------------------------------------------- Redwood City, Calif. (March 21, 1994) - RSA Data Security, Inc. announced today a first: digital signature software that is both free and legal worldwide. RSA applied for and received a "commodities jurisdiction," or CJ for a software package called RIPEM, which was built with RSA Data Security's RSAREF toolkit, a freeware package. A CJ, which is a ruling that the software falls under the Commerce Department's jurisdiction as opposed to the State Department, allows RIPEM to be freely and legally exported. Further, RSA has relaxed the use restrictions in its free crypto toolkit. RSAREF, and any application built with it, may now be used in commercial settings as long as it is not sold or used to provide a direct for-profit service. Digital signatures are produced using the RSA cryptosystem, which is a public-key cryptosystem. Each user has two keys - one public and one private. The public key can be disclosed without compromising the private key. The RSA cryptosystem was invented and patented in the late 1970's by Drs. Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Electronic documents can be "signed" with an unforgeable "signature" by using a document/private-key combination to produce a signature unique to the author/document. Anyone, by using only RIPEM and the public key of the author, can verify the authenticity of the document. Applications of digital signatures are endless. One reason that the paperless office has never materialized is that paper must still be printed so that handwritten signatures can be applied. RSAREF and RIPEM solve that problem. Expense reports, any electronic forms, administrative documents, even tax returns can be electronically signed to speed electronic document flow and eliminate fraud. Information on the Internet can be signed and verified to prevent spoofing. Recently, unauthenticated messages at Dartmouth College caused an important test to be cancelled; messages impersonating faculty were sent out. "Data mailed, posted, or put on servers on the Internet is inherently untrustable today," said Jim Bidzos, president of RSA. "Tampering with electronic documents takes no special skills, and leaves no trace. With the availability of a free, legal, and exportable tool such as RIPEM, there's no need for such a situation to continue. It can be used by individuals, corporations, and government agencies at no cost." In a February 4th announcement, Vice-president Gore stated that the recent Internet break-ins could have been prevented with digital signatures. "Here they are," said Bidzos. Recently, cryptography has caused clashes between government and industry, over privacy issues, law enforcement concerns, and export issues. "The US government has approved this software for export," said Bidzos. "Clearly, it's no threat to them. And it's free." Digital signatures can also be used to detect any virus before a program is executed, since any change whatsoever is detected. The RIPEM application was developed using the RSAREF toolkit by Mark Riordan of Michigan State University. A Macintosh version, developed by Ray Lau of MIT, the author of the popular "Stufit" program, is also available. Versions for DOS, Unix, and all popular platforms are supported. "PEM" stands for Privacy Enhanced Mail, a published Internet standard for secure electronic mail. Other innovative applications can also be built with RSAREF and distributed at no cost. RSA digital signatures are a standard feature of Lotus Notes, the Apple System 7 Pro Operating System, Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows at Work, Windows NT, IBM System Security Products, DelRina PerformPro, WordPerfect InForms, SHANA InFormed, BLOC F3 Forms, Fischer International Workflow, and numerous other products. Over 3 million commercial products in the market today already use RSA signatures under license from RSA Data. Other RSA licensees include General Magic, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Unisys, DIgital Equipment Corp, Motorola, and numerous others. RSA Data Security, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and supports cryptographic solutions toolkits and products. The company was founded by the inventors of the RSA cryptosystem in 1982 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. From speyer@mcc.com Wed Mar 23 18:01:49 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26349; Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:01:49 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA13534; Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:00:16 CST Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA23192; Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:00:01 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA06975; Wed, 23 Mar 94 17:59:28 CST Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 17:59:28 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9403232359.AA06975@faith.mcc.com> To: mfu@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Re: RSA Digital Signature Announcement In-Reply-To: Mail from 'Mike Uschold ' dated: Wed, 23 Mar 94 21:32:59 GMT Cc: all-iceimt@einet.net >There seems to me a very big difference between a password and a >signature. This software seems like the former. A signature cannot >be forged except by very skilled handwriting copying. ANyone can >forge an electronic `signature' if they are told the password key. > >So, this enables anyone to let as many people as they like `sign' >electonic douments. This is certainly useful, but not exactly >analogous to a real signature. One can conceive of blackmail >being used to force someone to tell them their key/password to allow >them to sign things for them. > >If I am mistaken about this distinction, and if these electrtonic >signatures really ARE like normal signatures in the way I describe >please explain. > >thanks >Mike Uschold, AI Applications Institute, >INTERNET: M.Uschold@ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh, >Tel: (031) 650 2732 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN >Fax: 650-6513 Scotland With RSA Public/Private key technology everybody knows the public key and uses it to encrypt messages that can only be decrypted with the private key. Likewise, you can authenticate a message by decrypting with the public key what can only be properly encrypted using the private key. So, the private key is never shared with anyone such as in DES style of encryptions. The one other entity that knows your private key (disregarding fraud and mistakes) is the escrow agent(s) (which may include the US government) that assigns public/private keys. Presuming the escrow agent is "trustworthy" and the enduser doesn't expose their password it isn't "possible" to forge documents that use this technology. Hence, the critical security issue becomes the key management and distribution issues by the organizations themselves and the Certification Authorities that assign the keys. since there is now at least a minimally sufficient technological solution available worldwide including DES/Kerberos authentication and RSA Digital Signature technology-- as you point out in your message. The MCC EINet project that I am a member of is one of the groups working this issue. Regards, -Bruce From petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Mon Mar 28 18:54:19 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA24797; Mon, 28 Mar 94 18:54:19 CST Received: from sunrise.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA21742; Mon, 28 Mar 94 18:53:09 CST Received: (from petrie@localhost) by sunrise.Stanford.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id QAA16259; Mon, 28 Mar 1994 16:52:53 -0800 From: Charles Petrie Message-Id: <199403290052.QAA16259@sunrise.Stanford.EDU> Subject: CIMOSA Press Release To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 16:52:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: reis@cis.stanford.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4151 Press Release - ESPRIT Consortium AMICE Contract: K. Kosanke Tel: (49) 7031 27 76 65 Stockholmer Str 7 Fax (49) 7031 27 66 98 D-71034 Boeblingen, Germany email: kosanke@ipa.fhg.de ONE MORE STEP TOWARDS ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION Model Driven Shop Floor Operation Control and Monitoring based on CIMOSA - Open Systems Architecture for CIM RWTH Aachen, February, 1994: Integration in manufacturing becomes a reality at the shop floor of the Aachen Teaching Factory. Driven by a model of the order process for small batch size production, mechanical parts are produced according to priorities of incoming orders and the current capabilities of the shop floor. The CIMOSA-based model is engineered for ease of use providing high flexibility in order execution. The ESPRIT Project AMICE presented its final results on CIMOSA in an open workshop held at the Teaching Factory (ADITEC) in Aachen, describing the use of the AMICE Project in enterprise engineering and enterprise operation control and monitoring. CIMOSA implementations at FIAT and WZL were presented and demonstrated. Pre-product versions of modelling tool developments were also presented by several Consortium members. CIMOSA was used to optimize a FIAT gearbox production and assembly operation including both material and logistics flow. Different production strategies were simulated in the same model showing the benefits of a mixed push-pull production strategy compared with a pure Kanban implementation. CIMOSA demonstrated excellent business benefits compared with other state of the art business modelling approaches. These benefits were quantified in significant reduction in the time to model these strategies and simulate their effects of the business. WZL used CIMOSA to model and simulate the complete order cycle for small batch size product families. This included order entry, product planning, production, distribution, and invoicing. Again, CIMOSA demonstrated its abilities to test out different solutions and its flexibility to handle different application areas like business process re-engineering, lean organization, total quality management, and control. CIMOSA has been used at WZL also for model-driven shop floor operation control and monitoring. The CIMOSA Integrated Infrastructure (IIS) enabled business process control in a heterogeneous IT environment. The IIS implementation used OSF/DCE (Open System Foundation/ Distributed Computing Environment) as a common platform on hardware and software from different IT vendors, including Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Siemens Nixdorf. The integration of order processing, MRP-II based production planning, shop floor production planning refinement and manufacturing process control and monitoring was the major part of the demonstration. The order flow between the different operation steps was shown in a presentation via large screen projection. Following this presentation, the order was actually executed on the shop floor. This involved manufacturing the parts with milling, drilling, turning processes as well as the use of automated guided vehicles for transportation between process stations. The CIMOSA specification will be maintained in the future by the CIMOSA Association: a newly formed group that was announced at the Aachen Workshop. Founding members of this group are industry and research organizations from ESPRIT Consortium AMICE. The CIMOSA Association will engage itself in the controlled evolution of the CIMOSA specification and information dissemination to the general public and to national, European, and international standards bodies. Application for membership is encouraged for any organization involved or interested in CIMOSA. -------------------------------------------------------- For information, please contact: K. Kosanke Tel: (49) 7031 27 76 65 Stockholmer Str 7 Fax (49) 7031 27 66 98 D-71034 Boeblingen, Germany email: kosanke@ipa.fhg.de _________________________________________________________ Message forwarded by C. Petrie - please do not reply directly From ctong@cs.rutgers.edu Tue Mar 29 09:37:32 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA06174; Tue, 29 Mar 94 09:37:32 CST Received: from aramis.rutgers.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA23075; Tue, 29 Mar 94 09:37:29 CST Received: by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA03546; Tue, 29 Mar 94 10:37:28 EST Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 10:37:28 EST From: ctong@cs.rutgers.edu (Chris Tong) Message-Id: <9403291537.AA03546@aramis.rutgers.edu> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: AAAI-94 SIGMAN WORKSHOP ON REASONING ABOUT THE SHOP FLOOR Reply-To: ctong@cs.rutgers.edu THE AAAI-94 WORKSHOP ON REASONING ABOUT THE SHOP FLOOR (SIGMAN) [NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED] The theme for this year's SIGMAN workshop is "interaction and adaptation." The shop floor has become increasingly responsive to changes due to customer demands, management commitments, and new regulations. Together, such factors result in a complex set of interactions to which the shop floor operations must be adapted if the manufacturing process is to be competitive. Adding to the complexity is the volume of data concerning part quality, throughput, inventories, machine status, worker productivity, material handling, and finished goods. The assumptions and actions of one decision maker may easily conflict with the decisions of another and threaten havoc. The application of AI techniques to the practical operational problems of the shop floor provides a fertile testing ground for AI research, and the opportunity for improving shop floor operations. TOPICS: Representation: Given the volume of data and the complexity of interactions, how can the dynamic environment of the shop floor be represented for both efficient inferencing and human understanding? Inference, analysis and decision-making: What mechanisms are available that allow "good enough" solutions to be generated in a fixed time period, but better solutions to be generated given longer periods of time? How can operations research and AI techniques, stochastic modeling and adaptive reasoning, reactive and proactive analyses, etc. be integrated for better operational decision-making that reflects current shop floor conditions? Learning: What mechanisms can learn about the shop floor state and identify "cue" conditions that could trigger the application of a particular operational strategy? Scheduling: How can shop-floor level schedules be integrated in a way that satisfies the many demands and constraints inherent in the meeting of higher-level goals? Fault detection, isolation, and recovery: Can the onset of shop floor contingencies be detected in such a way that the effects of the problems can be isolated and plans for recovery generated? Information management: What mechanisms can be constructed to present the human decision maker with clear and relevant information from a large volume of shop floor data? Which aspects of decision making should be computer-generated and which aspects should be left to shop floor personnel? Regulation: Given that the shop floor is constrained by the regulations of both governments and unions as to what operations can take place and how they can be executed, what mechanism can be used to propagate constraints concerning government and union regulations through the shop floor operations, scheduling and control processes? FORMAT: The workshop will be organized into panel discussions related to the topics specified above. SUBMISSIONS: All interested in attending the workshop should submit three hard copies of a list of relevant publications, activities, etc. All interested in presenting papers should submit three hard copies of extended abstracts (no longer than five pages). Send all submissions by April 1, 1994 to: Dr. Leslie Interrante (chair) Intelligent Systems Laboratory Center for Automation and Robotics University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 interr@ebs330.eb.uah.edu 205-895-6658 FAX: 205-895-6733 Decisions regarding paper acceptances or invitations to attend the workshop will be announced by April 15, 1994. Camera-ready copies of full-length papers (of up to 12 pages of 12 point type, that includes figures, bibliography, etc.) must be received by April 29, 1994. The workshop will be held August 4, 1994 (during AAAI94) in Seattle, WA. Organizing Committee: Leslie Interrante (chair; interr@ebs330.eb.uah.edu), Chris Tong (co-chair; ctong@cs.rutgers.edu), David Goldstein (goldstn@ncat.edu), Hank Grant (fgrant@nsf.gov), Caroline Hayes (hayes@cs.uiuc.edu), Claude Le Pape (lepape@ilog.fr), D. Navin-Chandra (dchandra@isl1.ri.cmu.edu), Daniel Rochowiak (drochowi@cs.uah.edu), Mike Shaw (mshaw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu), Stephen Smith (sfs@isl1.ri.cmu.edu). From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Wed Mar 30 09:25:24 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA27290; Wed, 30 Mar 94 09:25:24 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25044; Wed, 30 Mar 94 09:25:22 CST Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA00299; Wed, 30 Mar 94 10:25:20 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9403301525.AA00299@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Net Announcement of positions - please forward to other networks To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 10:25:19 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3480 Net Announcement for Positions The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University is seeking to fill several positions in a variety of Collaboration Technology applications. Positions will be tailored to the needs of the candidate and can range from Visiting Professor/Research Professor, Research Associate to PhD fellowships. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and demonstrated potential. We are particularly looking for candidates with the following attributes: 1. Has been part of a corporate R&D or university research group 2. Has a Phd or an MS in CS or related areas 3. Is thoroughly familiar with Internet and technologies that exploit it 4. Is interested and capable of hands-on work 5. Is creative and prepared to take risks in implementing new ideas 6. Thrives in a world where CHANGE IS CONSTANT! The hardware environment at CERC is characterized by a heterogeneous collection of workstations (Sun, DEC, HP); the software development environment is characterized by UNIX, Mosaic, Mbone, C/C++, Motif, TCL/TK, Oracle, and Versant. In the future, the hardware environment will include Power PCs, PCs, and PDAs in a mobile networked environment. CERC is an interdisciplinary research center established in 1988 at West Virginia University (WVU) with support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The primary mission of CERC is the advancement of Collaboration Technology and its application to problems that have national priority. Collaboration Technology is defined as any combination of information technology designed to overcome the following barriers to collaboration in large scale organizations: -Distance -Heterogeneity of databases and computer systems -Coordination and global visibility of common information -Usability In last five years, CERC has created demonstration systems that address the above barriers in the context of product engineering involving complex military industrial artifacts, such as jet engines. Most notable of these systems are the Meeting on the Network (MONET) system, which overcomes the distance barrier, and the Information Sharing System (ISS), which overcomes the database heterogeneity barrier. CERC is the first recipient of a High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) contract from the National Library of Medicine to develop a telemedicine workstation and an informatics-enriched community care network for rural health care delivery. We are also leading a consortium of international universities and business organizations to create a global knowledge network for sharing environmentally sound product development knowledge on a world-wide basis. CERC is located in a dedicated ultramodern building on the campus of West Virginia University (3.5 hours from Washington, DC, and 1 hour from Pittsburgh, PA) and is staffed with 65 faculty, staff, and students. Discussion via email or telephone is encouraged prior to application to determine mutual interests. All applications, however, will receive thorough evaluation regardless of preliminary discussions. West Virginia University is an affirmative action equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Interested persons should send applications/inquiries to: Professor R. Reddy Director Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506-6506 Email: rar@cerc.wvu.edu Tel: 304 293 7226 Fax: 304 293 7541 From petrie@bimini.stanford.edu Wed Mar 30 18:34:28 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22582; Wed, 30 Mar 94 18:34:28 CST Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25568; Wed, 30 Mar 94 18:34:24 CST Received: by bimini.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA05598; Wed, 30 Mar 94 16:34:23 PST Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 16:34:23 PST From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: deen@cs.keele.ac.uk Subject: COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS - Conf Registration Message-Id: REPLY TO: Professor S. M. Deen DAKE Centre (Department of Computer Science) University of Keele, Keele, Staffs. ST5 5BG England Tel: +44782 583076 Fax: +44782 713082 Email: deen@cs.keele.ac.uk ---------------------------------- CKBS'94 Second International Working Conference on COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS June 14-17, 1994 DAKE CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF KEELE Sponsors Department of Trade and Industry, UK European Union ESPRIT Marconi, UK CALL FOR REGISTRATION Second International Working Conference on COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS June 14-17, 1994 University of Keele, England. 1. INTRODUCTION The objective of the CKBS series of conferences is to bring the researchers >From Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), Distributed Databases (DDB) and industry together to discuss issues and solutions to problems that are inherently distributed. A CKBS may be viewed as an applied multi-agent system, which distinguishes itself from the traditional multi-agent systems by having a stronger emphasis on real-world problems, where issues such as performance, reliability, consistency, organisational constraints, security and end-user facility are important. In this sense, a CKBS type approach amalgamates ideas from DAI and DDB for solving distributed problems, such as those encountered in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Air-traffic Control, Telecommunications Network Management, Distributed Sensor Networks, Distributed Decision-making Systems, Distributed Banking Systems, Distributed Office Procedures and Distributed Fault Diagnosis. CKBS'94 is the successor to CKBS'90 which was held at Keele in October 1990, and in which both DAI and DDB researchers participated. CKBS'90 was considered by the attendees to be very successful and led to the formation of the International Special Interest Group CKBS-SIG, which is managed by the DAKE Centre at Keele. An application domain that receives special attention in CKBS'94 is that of intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS), because of a growing need for a CKBS approach in many branches of this field, such as agent-based and flexible manufacturing, concurrent engineering design and knowledge and systems integration for manufacturing. It is hoped that this conference will provide a forum for the cross-fertilisation of ideas leading to better solutions of CKBS problems both within the domain of IMS and also within other application domains. The conference is intended as a residential one with accommodation provided within the campus, so that the delegates have greater opportunities for inter-mixing and exchange of ideas. A distinctive feature of the CKBS conference series is the provision of a conducive atmosphere for discussions among the delegates, helping to produce new ideas. With this end in mind, each paper in the conference will be given 10 minutes of special discussion time following its presentation. This Registration Pack includes the following items: 2. Conference Topics 2.1 Tutorials 2.2 Main conference 2.3 Excursions 3. General Information 3.1 Conference Location 3.2 Some Key Information 3.3 Organising Committee 3.4 Programme Committee 4. Fees and Accommodation 4.1 Fees 4.2 Accommodation at the Campus 5. Appendix A (List of contributed papers) 6. Appendix B (List of expected posters) 7. Registration Form 2. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference has three components: Tutorial, Main Conference and Excursions, as described below: 2.1 Tutorial (afternoon of Tuesday, June 14) A half-day tutorial will be given by Dr. Michael N. Huhns (MCC, Austin, USA), a leading DAI researcher on Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Information Systems. This tutorial describes the current state of research in distributed artificial intelligence. It presents architectures, languages, and techniques for achieving coordinated behaviour among a decentralised group of intelligent computational agents, and describes successful applications of DAI in transaction scheduling, manufacturing automation and information retrieval. 2.2 Main Conference (Wednesday June 15 to Friday June 17) The main conference has three elements: Invited Papers Contributed Papers Posters and Demonstrations The invited papers are: A DAI Perspective on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems by M. N. Huhns (MCC, Austin, USA) The ARCHON Project and its Applications by N. Jennings (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK) The IMAGINE Project by H. Haugeneder (Siemens AG, Germany) It may be noted that ARCHON and IMAGINE are the two major CKBS projects funded by the CEC ESPRIT Programme. These presentations will be the first comprehensive research reports on these recently completed projects. All contributed papers have been selected from the extended abstracts submitted to the conference. There about 36 such contributed papers, including 10 papers related to Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, as listed in Appendix A. The authors are expected to submit full papers before the conference. These, along with the invited papers, will be collected as draft proceedings to be circulated among the delegates at the conference. Following the conference, the authors will submit their revised full-papers (in the light of discussions at the conference) for a final review. The selected papers from this second review, along with the invited papers, will then be published by the DAKE Centre as the final proceedings. A copy of the final proceedings will be mailed to each delegate in due course. In addition to the contributed papers, a number of posters will also be displayed on new ideas in CKBS, as listed in Appendix B. Some demonstrators may also be presented. 2.3 Excursions (afternoon of Thursday June 16) Excursions are an important part of this conference, as these enable the delegates to get to know each other better. These excursions are popular, and hence an early booking is strongly recommended to avoid disappointment as the number of places is limited. If we cannot book a place for you, we shall naturally refund your payment. This year we are organising two alternative events to choose from: (i) a visit to Stratford-upon-Avon, which was also offered in CKBS'90 and (ii) a visit to Chatsworth House which is new. Stratford-upon-Avon By coach to Stratford (about 1 and 1/2 hours each way), returning to Keele around midnight. The price includes a ticket for an evening performance of a Shakespeare play, Henry V, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. We shall try to give you a transcript of the play beforehand, so that you can follow the performance better. The afternoon and early evening are free to wander around this historic birthplace of William Shakespeare and take dinner (not included in the price) as you like in Stratford before the performance, which starts at about 7:30 pm. In CKBS'90, this excursion was considered a high point by the delegates, who also found the coach journey enjoyable. Please note that the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is usually booked long in advance, and therefore we advise you ensure an early return of the registration form. In CKBS`90 many delegates applied too late for this memorable excursion. Chatsworth House By coach to Chatsworth House (about 1 and 1/2 hours in each direction). This classical mansion, which was originally built in 1555 and later altered by the first Duke of Devonshire in 1709, is one of the finest stately homes in England. The splendid garden was replanted in the 19th century, when the Emperor fountain was also added. The House contains a world-renowned collection of paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, silver, porcelain, curiosities and fine furniture. This is a popular tourist attraction of Britain. You will tour the mansion, and later the great garden, at a leisurely pace following well-laid out directions. You will be there probably for about 3 and 1/2 hours, returning to Keele at around 8:30 pm, just in time for you to sample some student fares at the Keele Campus or gentiles' fares at the restaurants in town (dinner is not included in the price). A restaurant list will be supplied. Other Possibilities If you are not interested in these excursions then you can while away the afternoon by wandering around Keele campus (quite pleasant), trying a round of golf (opposite the campus entrance), playing ten-pin bowling (5 miles >From campus) or by visiting Chester - an old Roman town which is an hour by bus from the campus. The world famous Wedgewood pottery factory (6 miles >From the campus) can also be visited. 3. GENERAL INFORMATION 3.1 Conference Location The University of Keele is small but distinguished for its interdisciplinary philosophy in education. Geographically, Keele is a University village on the outskirts of Newcastle-under-Lyme, half-way between Birmingham and Manchester. The nearest airport is Manchester (35 miles), London Heathrow airport is some 150 miles away. Keele is situated between junctions 15 and 16 of the M6 motorway. The nearest railway station is Stoke-on-Trent (5 miles), which can be reached >From London Euston in under 2 hours and from Manchester in 40 minutes. Joining instructions will include further details. The Data and Knowledge Engineering (DAKE) Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre of the University operating within the Computer Science Department. The Centre has major projects in advanced data/knowledge bases, distributed databases and Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS). The Centre is recognised as a centre of excellence by the CEC ESPRIT programme, and is also funded by the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry in the UK) to act as a focus in the CKBS area for British academia and industry. As mentioned earlier, following a decision taken at CKBS'90, the DAKE Centre manages an International Special Interest Group on CKBS, the UK component of this being funded by the DTI. The CKBS-SIG(UK) holds regular seminars and annual workshops whose proceedings have been published by the DAKE Centre. If you wish to join these SIGs or just wish to have more information about them please ask any member of the organising committee. 3.2 Some Key Information The venue of the conference is the Chancellors Building, where registration and all sessions will be held. Some important dates and times are as follows: Registration Tuesday June 14, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm. Wednesday June 15, 8:00 am - 10:00 am. Tutorial Tuesday June 14, Lunch 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Keele Hall Restaurant). Tuesday June 14, Tutorial Session 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Evening Meal on Tuesday June 14 At 6:00 pm (Keele Hall Restaurant). Reception Tuesday June 14, 8:00 pm (Salvin Room, Keele Hall). Conference Dinner Wednesday June 15, 7:30 pm for 8:00 pm (Salvin Room, Keele Hall). Excursions Thursday June 16, coach departs at 1:45 pm. Main Conference Sessions First session begins at 8.30 am on June 15 and last session ends at 5:30 pm on June 17. There will be the usual tea/coffee and lunch breaks. The times given and the programme outlined above are tentative. Please wait for your joining instructions and conference programme for the latest information. It is expected that most of the sessions will involve two parallel streams. Mailing Address: Ms Kendal Allen, DAKE Centre (Department of Computer Science), University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, ENGLAND. Tel: +44 782 583416 Fax: +44 782 713082 Email: ckbs94@cs.keele.ac.uk 3.3 Organising Committee Prof Sayyed Misbah Deen - Chairman Email: deen@cs.keele.ac.uk Mr Martyn Fletcher - Secretary and Treasurer Email: martyn@cs.keele.ac.uk Ms Kendal Allen - Registration and Accommodation Email: kendal@cs.keele.ac.uk Ms Amanda Godfrey - Excursions Email: amanda@cs.keele.ac.uk Mr Athula Herath - Posters and Demonstrations Email: athula@cs.keele.ac.uk Mr Baird Ndovie - Presentation Facilities Email: baird@cs.keele.ac.uk 3.4 Programme Committee S. Misbah Deen [Chairman] Mohamed M. Bayoumi (Canada) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Sharma Chakravarthy (USA) Keith Clark (UK) Daniel D. Corkill (USA) Rose Dieng (France) Jim Doran (UK) Edmund H. Durfee (USA) Kari-Pekka Estola (Finland) Brian Gaines (Canada) David Griffiths (UK) Michael Hatzopoulos (Greece) Hans Haugender (Germany) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Ichiro Inasaki (Japan) Toru Ishida (Japan) V. Jagannathan (USA) Paul Kearney (UK) Larry Kerschberg (USA) Stefan Kirn (Germany) Mark Klein (USA) Victor R. Lesser (USA) Witold Litwin (France) Peter B. Luh (USA) E. H. Mamdani (UK) Rainer Manthey (Germany) Yoshio Matsumoto (Japan) Rainer Mittmann (Germany) Heinz Jurgen Mueller (Germany) Erich J. Neuhold (Germany) Douglas H. Norrie (Canada) H. Van Dyke Parunak (USA) Charles Petrie (USA) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Belgium) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Munindar P. Singh (USA) Larry M. Stephens (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Makoto Takizawa (Japan) Shinsuke Tamura (Japan) Edwin Van Leeuwen (Australia) 4. FEES AND ACCOMMODATION The registration form includes four elements of payment: Tutorial Fee, Main Conference Fee, Excursion cost and Accommodation cost as described below. All prices quoted in this registration pack are in pounds sterling. 4.1 Fees Tutorial Fee 55 pounds Main conference Fee 255 pounds Total Fee 310 pounds The tutorial fee permits attendance to the tutorial on Tuesday, June 14 >From 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, tutorial handouts, lunch and afternoon tea/coffee. The main conference fee permits attendance to the presentation sessions >From June 15 to 17 (but not to the Tutorial on Tuesday). It also includes, except for the student fee payers, the following: * Evening meal on Tuesday (only if you arrive before 6:00 pm) * Conference Reception on Tuesday at 8:00 pm * Three lunches (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) * Tea/Coffee at breaks twice daily * Conference Dinner (meant to be a good one) on Thursday * Draft conference proceedings distributed at the conference * Final published proceedings after the conference (to be mailed) Those of you who attended the CKBS'90 will perhaps remember how good the lunches and the conference dinner were. We plan to have a repeat performance as we wish you to have a good time at Keele. A reduced fee, without meals and conference dinner, is available for a limited number of full-time research students from recognised higher-educational institutions. The reduced student fees are: Tutorial Fee 40 pounds (without lunch) Main conference Fee 190 pounds (without meals and conference dinner) Total Fee 230 pounds If you wish take advantage of this reduced fee then please contact us for clearance. The excursion fee to Startford is 40 pounds, which includes the coach fare and a ticket for the performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, but no meals or refreshments. The fee for the Chatsworth House visit is 20 pounds, which includes the coach fare and an admission ticket to the House, but no meals or refreshments. Since the places are limited, they will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. If we cannot find a place for you then we shall refund your excursion fee. No discounts are possible on these trips. Please note that a late fee of 35 pounds will be incurred for registration payments received after May 15. 4.2 Accommodation at the Campus We have two types of accommodation available: one at 45 pounds per night with en-suite facilities; and the other at 25 pounds per night in standard student rooms, both with breakfast. A room with en-suite facilities includes shower and WC, a coffee/tea-making facility and also access to a TV lounge with satellite channels. A standard student room has a sink, with a shared shower/WC and also coffee/tea-making facilities in a shared kitchen. Student rooms are smaller in size. APPENDIX A = A Preliminary List of Contributed Papers Global Concurrent Engineering: Why and How? Hassan Abdalla [De Montfort University, UK] The Information Agent: an Infrastructure for Collaboration in the Integrated Enterprise Mihai Barbuceanu et al [University of Toronto, Canada] Eliminating Paraconsistencies in 4-valued Cooperative Deductive Multidatabase Systems with Classic Negation Magnus Boman et al [Stockholm University, Sweden] Using Systemic Practices in the Analysis of Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems Thierry Bouron [TMM/TDA, France] A General Framework for Distributed Reason Maintenance Jacques Calmet et al [University of Karlsruhe, Germany] Skills, Heuristics and Decision-Making in Multi-agent Environment Brahim Chaib-draa et al [Universite Laval, Canada] A CKBS Architecture for HMS S. Misbah Deen {University of Keele, UK] Information Integration in Team Collaborative Design Hong Ding et al [Technical University of Berlin, Germany] MAGE: Additions to the AGE Algorithm for Learning in Multi-Agent Systems Michael Dowell et al [University of South Carolina, USA] The Formal Requirements Engineering of Manufacturing Systems Eric Dubois et al [Institut d'Informatique, Belgium] The Design of an Intelligent Manufacturing System Klaus Fischer [DFKI, Germany] Specifying and Executing Protocols for Cooperative Action Michael Fisher et al [Manchester Metropolitian University, UK] A CKBS Approach to Dynamic Congestion Control Martyn Fletcher [University of Keele, UK] Classification of Multiagent Systems Ron Fulbright [University of South Carolina, USA] Euroknowledge: European Initiative for Knowledge Standardisation Tim Grant et al [BSO/Nieuwegein b.v., The Netherlands] Conflict Detection and Resolution in Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems Henning Grasshoff et al [City University, UK] A Meta-level Approach to Exploration of Multiple Knowledge Bases Mandy Haggith [University of Edinburgh, UK] Transaction Model of Vehicles in Tree-Structured Space Satoshi Hamada et al [Tokyo Denki University, Japan] Title to be confirmed Hans Haugeneder [Siemens AG, Germany] Simulation Studies on Creating Verified Specifications For Distributed Control in Manufacturing Tapio Heikkila et al [VTT Automation, Finland] Federated Expert Systems for Cooperating Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Concurrent Engineering Systems George Huang [Dundee Institute of Technology, UK] Support for Distributed Multi-agent Systems Paul Kearney et al [Sharp Laboratories of Europe, UK] ROO: A Distributed AI Toolkit for Belief Based Reasoning Agents Cindy Mason [National Research Council, USA] Cooperating Knowledge-Based Systems and Intelligent Information Retrieval A. Mekaouche et al [Universite de Nantes, France] Real Time Production Scheduling in Holonic Manufacturing Systems Toshimichi Moriwaki et al [Kobe University, Japan] A Model for Interaction for Dynamic Multi-Agent Environments Joerg Mueller [DFKI, Germany] Simulation of an ATC Conflict Management System Baird Ndovie [University of Keele, UK] Title to be confirmed Douglas Norrie [University of Calgary, Canada] Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimise the Behaviour of Agents Clemens Odendahl et al [DFKI, Germany] A DAI Perspective on Intelligent Organisations Gregory O'Hare et al [UMIST, UK] Ingredients for Modelling Help-Giving in Cooperative Environments Paola Rizzo et al [National Research Council of Italy, Italy] The Cooperative Heuristics Approach for Autonomous Agents Lorenzo Sommaruga et al [Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain] An Epistemic System Model for Coordinating Intelligent Agents Wynn Stirling et al [Brigham Young University, USA] Holonic Planning and Scheduling Architecture for Manufacturing Shinsuke Tamura [Toshiba, Japan] A Hierarchical Blackboard System For Collaborative Design Michael Weiss [Universitaet Mannheim, Germany] A Multi Agent Architecture with Real-Time Processing Capability Zheng Xiaojun [Technical University of Berlin, Germany] APPENDIX B = A Tentative List of Posters Enhancing the framework for the Development of Co-operating Knowledge Based Systems Phillip Burrell et al [South bank University] Towards a Cooperative Architecture for Engineering Decision Support Systems John Hunt [University of the West of England, UK] A Technique for Design for Assembly Based on Product Cost Optimisation Anthony Ikonopisov [Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria] Extending Object Oriented Analysis to provide Agent Modelling Jim Longstaff et al [University of Teesside, UK] A Framework for Interactive Visual Learning in Expert Neural Networks Ahmed Mohamed [The American University in Cairo, Egypt] Hyperbase: Modelling Agents in Dynamic Systems Rosane Pagano et al [Manchester Metropolitan University, UK] The Role of Dialogue in an Office Assistant Network Douglas Siviter [South Bank University, UK] A Human Imitation Method for Cooperating Multi-Agents Lichun Wang [Middlesex University, UK] A Knowledge-Based Assistant for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Rudiger Wirth et al [University of Ulm, Germany] The Role of Organisational Goals in Knowledge Based Job Shop Scheduling Systems Peng Ye et al [University of Ulster, UK] ============================================================================== CKBS'94 REGISTRATION FORM Second International Working Conference on COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS June 14-17, 1994, University of Keele, England. Name (including title):....................................................... Address:...................................................................... .............................................................................. Affiliation:.................................................................. Email:........................................................................ Fax:................................ Phone:................................... Male or Female (needed for room allocation purposes):......................... Special Requirements (Diet, Disabled) etc:.................................... .............................................................................. I DO/DO NOT wish to have an evening meal (at 6pm) on Tuesday June 14, 1994. Non-Student Student* Tutorial Registration Fee (June 14): 55 pounds [ ] 40 pounds [ ] Conference Registration Fee (June 15-17): 255 pounds [ ] 190 pounds [ ] University Accommodation: ......................... pounds (at 25 pounds or 45 pounds per night): Arrival Date:...... Departure Date:......... No. of Nights:......... Excursions: Stratford 40 pounds [ ] or Chatsworth 20 pounds [ ] Late Fee of 35 pounds for payments received after May 15, 1994 [ ] TOTAL ENCLOSED ....................................................... pounds REGISTRATION CAN NOT BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT FULL PAYMENT. All prices quoted are in pounds sterling. Payments should be made to "University of Keele", in pounds sterling by a crossed cheque drawn on a British Bank or by Bankers Draft. Alternatively payment may be made by Credit Card: Please tick: Access [ ] Visa [ ] Mastercard [ ] Eurocard [ ] Card Number:........................ Expiry Date:... ....................... Billing Address for the Credit Card:.......................................... .............................................................................. Signature:.................................................................... Please return to: Ms Kendal Allen, DAKE Centre, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Keele, Keele, Staffs., ST5 5BG, England. Fax: +44 782 713082; Tel: +44 782 583416; Email: kendal@cs.keele.ac.uk * Please refer to the conditions under Section 4.1 on Fees. ---------------END OF REG PACK---------------------- ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ From goranson@charm.isi.edu Sat Apr 2 13:56:48 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA00883; Sat, 2 Apr 94 13:56:48 CST Received: from charm.isi.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA01670; Sat, 2 Apr 94 13:56:33 CST Received: by charm.isi.edu (5.65c/4.1.1-5) id ; Sat, 2 Apr 1994 11:56:23 -0800 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 94 11:56:23 PST From: Ted Goranson To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: New Programs Message-Id: EI Friends: You may be wondering what happened to the momentum established by ICEIMT. 1). Since then, ManTech has done some strong work putting together an "EI" program in Virtual Manu- facturing. The "virtual" here denotes the simulation of the (probably distributed) manufacturing pro- cesses toward some end. However, this VM program has suffered some delays while government is being reinvented. Therefore, I am looking for a situation in a worthwhile EI-related project. The next step in the VM project will almost certainly be a technical workshop. The contracted point of contact for the workshop will be Jim Brink at brink@picard.ml.wpafb.af.mil. I expect he will use this list to make announcements. The VM program overall is being led by Mickey Hitchcock of ManTech at hitchmf%ml%wpafb@mlgate.ml.wpafb.af.mil. 2). I have just returned from a NIST workshop held at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences. This workshop is one in presumably a few toward establishing a focused program in " The Virtual En- terprise," under the Advanced Technology Program. Focused programs are expected to be sponsored at $80-300M over five years for the government part. If convincing white papers are received, the program could possibly be announced in the fall. With this mail, I am advising the participants in the workshop how to subscribe to this list. Probably, there will be some interesting traffic associated with the devel- opment of white papers for this effort. The points of contact for the VE program at NIST are Dave Fisher (program manager) at dfisher@micf.nist.gov and Mike Ransom at Ransom@osi3.ncsl.nist.gov. ---Ted Goranson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .....| Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta | | .....| 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach VA 23457-1227 | ARoarABoaryAlice | .....| 804/426-6704, Fax 804/721-0781 | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From gdennis@ntu.ac.sg Tue Apr 5 21:06:56 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08474; Tue, 5 Apr 94 21:06:56 CDT Received: from ntu.ac.sg by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA07922; Tue, 5 Apr 94 21:02:14 CDT Received: from localhost (gdennis@localhost) by ntu.ac.sg (8.6.4/8.6.4) id JAA16900 for all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net; Wed, 6 Apr 1994 09:34:33 +0800 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 09:34:33 +0800 From: Dennis Sng Message-Id: <199404060134.JAA16900@ntu.ac.sg> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: CIM Research Fellow Positions ****************************************************************** * * * GINTIC INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY * * Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. * * * ****************************************************************** A NEW DIMENSION AT THE FOREFRONT OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology (GIMT) is a national research institute funded by the National Science and Technology Board, Singapore. It was conceived through the merger of two leading national research institutes in manufacturing technology established within the Nanyang Technological University. The mission of GIMT is to be the leading institute for the development of Singapore into a center for intelligent and precision manufacturing. If you have the determination to take the challenge, we invite you to join in exploring the new frontiers of manufacturing. Application are open for RESEARCH FELLOW and ASSOCIATE RESEARCH FELLOW appointments. Your job will be to perform and lead various industrial applied research projects, as well as to assist in planning and teaching of the Master of Science program and to supervise post-graduate students in their project work. Applicants must have a recognised relevant Ph.D. or Masters Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Mechanical/Production Engineering, or Computer Engineering. Candidates with experience in industrial applied research in the following areas will be preferred: Concurrent Engineering and Information Sharing Infrastructure Computer Aided Product Design Knowledge Processing Manufacturing Operations Management Systems Design Systems Simulation Shop Floor Integration The monthly salary range is S$2250 - S$9200 (US$1 = ~S$1.6). The commencing salary will depend on your qualifications and experience. The University adopts the government's practice of payment of the annual variable component and allowance, the quantum of which is dependent on government guidelines. All staff are also provided with annual leave, provident fund contributions and medical benefits. Applications must be made on prescribed forms obtainable from the following address: The Administrative Officer (HRM) GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue Singapore 2263 Republic of Singapore Fax: (65) 791-6377 From blee@fuji.stanford.edu Sat Apr 9 15:01:29 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28161; Sat, 9 Apr 94 15:01:29 CDT Received: from fuji.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA15549; Sat, 9 Apr 94 15:00:33 CDT Received: by fuji.Stanford.EDU (5.67b8/inc-1.0) id AA09243; Sat, 9 Apr 1994 13:00:31 -0700 From: Burton Lee Message-Id: <199404092000.AA09243@fuji.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Intelligent Manufacturing Program-Bay Area Event To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 13:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: blee@fuji.stanford.edu (Burton Lee) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2079 The Stanford University School of Engineering Graduate School of Business US-Japan Technology Management Center Announce the ========================================================= STANFORD MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE: "Achieving Global Competitiveness Through Manufacturing Partnerships" ********************************************************* A Panel Discussion on the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Program: Status and West Coast Participation 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Saturday, May 7 ********* Speakers will include management from: US Department of Commerce Allen-Bradley/Rockwell International Daimler-Benz AG, Ulm, Germany Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (CIMS) Other IMS Program Participants ******** The IMS program completed in January its two year feasibility study. The International Steering Committee has recommended the full scale IMS program is feasible, and should move forward towards implementation. It is expected that the US government will ratify the IMS terms and conditions, opening the door to full-scale initiation of new, international manufacturing R&D project collaborations. The following IMS Test Cases will be presented and discussed: Enterprise Integration (tentative) Rapid Product Development Holonic Manufacturing Systems: Control Systems for Industrial Applications This IMS event is the second Bay Area IMS Program activity to be sponsored by Stanford University. The first was held December 2, 1993 with representatives from the US and Japan. ============================================================ For Conference Registration Forms and Further Information, Please Contact: Burton Lee IMS Program Director Stanford University US-Japan Technology Management Center 415-725-9969 blee@fuji.stanford.edu Please pass this announcement on to any interested parties. Thank you! 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Send other requests, such as requests to subscribe or changes in your e-mail address, to "COR-List-Request@treska.usc.edu". ================================================================ ANNOUNCING THE COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATION RESEARCH (COR) LIST Computational Research in Organization Theory, Analysis, and Design Theory, Analysis, and Design of Computational Organizations AIMS: ----- COR-List exists to publish news items; requests for assistance; research lab reports; journal, conference and meeting announcements; position notices; events calendars; comments on publications; paper abstracts; and other items of interest in the area of Computational Organization Research. BACKGROUND ---------- A growing collection of communities worldwide is now actively researching organizational phenomena using computational methods. There are pressing research issues in organization theory and organization development that are highly amenable to solution by computational modeling, theorizing, and experimentation. Computational methods may provide several advantages for studying some organizational phenomena: Organization theory, analysis, and design problems can be hard partly because of scale and complexity. By analogy, there have been several recent initiatives on topics of modeling, analysis and simulation of large-scale physical and biological phenomena, such as airflow and the human genome, to better understand underlying structures and to solve particular configuration problems. The structural and configuration problems of organizations are equally impactful and scientifically challenging. For the study of organizational issues, the theory, modeling technology, and infrastructure is ready, and the impacts of improved effectiveness and flexibility of organizations could be great. Networks and concurrent-system technologies have made possible wide-area interactions, virtual organizations, and controllable interactive agents. Representation, and implementation technologies and theory have advanced to the point where we now have insightful and useful tools for theorizing about and modeling organization-level phenomena. These include coordination languages and algorithms, organization ontologies, computational organization theories, etc. Advances in computer aided design have also created useful tools that begin to bring computer aided organization design into reach. Computational modeling and evaluation of organization, mentioned here, supports progress on computational organization design. Techniques of optimization, qualitative reasoning, iteration and search, developed for other applications, also support computational organization design. High-powered desktop computing creates demand for generally-available tools for organization monitoring, analysis and design. These computers, along with very fast high-performance simulation capabilities on supercomputers, add the capability to do complex analyses with reasonable response times. The infrastructure that exists for such research comprises existing working collaborations among key groups, as well as transferable analytical and modeling software (e.g. experimental testbeds, declarative theories, sharable ontologies, coordination languages and algorithms, etc.). The time is ripe to draw together the community and begin to establish forums for discussion and dissemination of information about activities and research. Computational systems for complex organization analysis do exist, and are in actual application or pilot use in major organizations, e.g. for organizational design, analysis, re-configuration, re-engineering, and process change. In addition, large research grants have been made to a number of research centers to study organization problems computationally. It has become clear through a set of recent meetings and publications that enough of an interdisciplinary organization-studies community has emerged, with enough familiarity with each others' work and enough basic interdisciplinary knowledge to make real inroads. As a followup to these recent meetings and to growing interest, and after discussion with a number of people and groups, the COR-List has been founded. INTENDED FOCUS -------------- The intended focus of this list is captured in its name: Computational Organization Research. General guidelines might be: COMPUTATIONAL: The list is concerned with disseminating information about explicitly computational approaches to organizational phenomena. Example areas might include computational models and representations of organizational knowledge, explicit organizational ontologies, simulations of organizational activity or structuring, computational approaches to building organization theories, coordination algorithms, computational approaches to organization design, computational tools for organization analysis, and and the study of "computational organizations"---those organizations made up completely or partly of computational participants. ORGANIZATION: The list is intended to focus on mid-range, organization-level phenomena--as versus theories of individual participants (e.g. cognition or psychology) or macro-scale phenomena (macroeconomic behavior, societal-level dynamics). This line is hard to draw, however, and macro-mezzo-micro links are of explicit interest, as are implications for agent-oriented and societal-level phenomena. RESEARCH: The bias of this list is primarily toward organizational research. It is clear, however, that much good organization research is driven by clear applied problems, and that the best tools embody clear principles and theory. This line, too is hard to draw, and research may include issues in the practical application of organizational tools such as business process reengineering tools or enterprise integration tools. CURRENT COMMUNITIES ------------------- Several current communities, focus groups, and workshops concerned with various aspects of COR include: Mathematical Organization Theory [e.g., contact: Richard Burton (Duke) Kathleen Carley (CMU), Michael Cohen (Michigan), Michael Masuch (Amsterdam), Michael Prietula (CMU)] Distributed AI/Multiagent Systems (DAI/MAS) [E.g., contact: USA: Michael Huhns (MCC), Vic Lesser (UMASS); Europe: Yves Demazeau (LIFIA/Grenoble), Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew Univ); Pacific Rim: Toru Ishida (Kyoto Univ); Mario Tokoro (Keio Univ)] Computational Organization Design [E.g., contact: Ingemar Hulthage (USC), Ray Levitt (Stanford)] RELATED INTERNET RESOURCES -------------------------- There are several other internet lists with related subject-matter but somewhat different focus: BPR-List: BPR-List focuses specifically on problems and approaches to business process reengineering. [bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl] DAI-List: The DAI-List specifically takes an Artificial Intelligence orientation to artificial multi-agent and distributed problem solving systems. [Moderated by Michael N. Huhns, (dai-list@mcc.com, dai-list-request@mcc.com] EINET: The EI net mailing list focuses specifically on problems and approaches to Enterprise Integration Technology. [all-iceimt@einet.net] INFOSYS: INFOSYS covers Information Systems. [Moderated by Dennis W. Viehland (d.viehland@massey.ac.nz. Message listserv@american.edu with "SUBSCRIBE INFOSYS YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME".] OMTNet: Organization & Management Theory Network. The OMT-List's focus is theory, but it is not specialized to explicitly computational approaches. [Moderated by: Dwight Lemke, OMT@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu; Back issues of the Digest are available via gopher in the Management Archives at the University of Minnesota: chimera.sph.umn.edu.] SUBSCRIPTIONS ------------- To subscribe to COR-List, send email with your current email address to: COR-List-Request@treska.usc.edu Very soon the addresses of COR-List will simplify to COR-List@usc.edu COR-List-Request@usc.edu (The treska.usc.edu address will continue to work.) MODERATORS ---------- Ingemar Hulthage and Les Gasser Computational Organization Design Lab Institute of Safety and Systems Management USC Los Angeles, CA 90089-0021 Phone: (213) 740-4044/4046 Email: {hulthage|gasser}@usc.edu From paul@ctc.com Fri May 6 12:37:15 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA25108; Fri, 6 May 94 12:37:15 CDT Received: from server1.ctc.com (NS1.CTC.COM) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA21833; Fri, 6 May 94 12:37:02 CDT Received: by server1.ctc.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA02094; Fri, 6 May 1994 13:37:20 -0400 Received: by sgi60.ctc.com (920330.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO) for @server1.ctc.com:all-iceimt@einet.net id AA22579; Fri, 6 May 94 13:37:19 -0400 From: paul@ctc.com (Anand J. Paul) Message-Id: <9405061737.AA22579@sgi60.ctc.com> Subject: CE94 (1st International Conference on CE .....) To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 13:37:16 -0500 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8725 ******************************************************************* Dear Colleague: This is to announce the First International Conference on CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA during August 29-31, 1994. The theme of this conference is A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. Sponsors: * Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA, USA * CERA Journal, Published by Academic Press, London, UK * International Society for Productivity Enhancement, USA Purpose of the Conference: This conference is a major forum for the international scientific exchange and presentation of multi-disciplinary and inter-organizational aspects of Concurrent Engineering utlizing * integrated enterprise processes * collaborative work * information sharing * co-locating people, tools, and places, and * integrated frameworks and tools Attendees will benefit from the presentations by learning how to apply Concurrent Engineering principles to their own applications. Experts from 13 countries will present 66 technical papers. In addition, there are 6 Invited Presentations from distinguished authorities in Concurrent Engineering. A booth exhibit area will be available so that organizations can display their capabilities and information in informal discussions. Keynote Talk: Dr. Michael McGrath, Executive Director, Manufacturing in ARPA's Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office, USA Plenary Address: Prof. Ramana Reddy, Director, Concurrent Engineering Research Center and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA Plenary Lectures: * Salil Deshpande, President and CEO, Customware * Katia P.Sycara, Director, Enterprise Integration Laboratory and Senior Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University * Alfred Z. Spector, President and CEO, Transarc Corporation * Vasudevan "Juggy" Jagannathan, Associate Professor, West Virginia University and Senior Member of Technical Staff st CERC Proceedings: All invited and contributed papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. The cost of the proceedings is included in the full registration fee. Additional copies of the proceedings may be purchased by contacting Linda R. Pollock at (814) 269-2520 or pollock@ctc.com Entertainment Events: * CE94 Ice Breaker, August 28, 1994, 7pm * Pittsburgh Pirate Baseball Game, August 29, 1994, 7:30 pm * The Gateway Clipper Dinner Cruise, August 30, 1994, 7 pm Registration Cost: Advance Registration Fee (before July 29, 1994): US$495.00 On Site Registration Fee: US$550.00 Registration fee includes the following: * Admission to CE94 and Exhibits for all three days * One copy of the CE94 proceedings * A one year membership to ISPE * A one year subscription to the CERA Journal (1995, vol. 3) * One ticket to the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball game * One ticket to the Gateway Clipper Dinner cruise CONFERENCE CHAIR: PROGRAM CHAIR: Anand J. Paul Michael Sobolewski CTC, Johnstown, PA Citicorp North America, Inc., Westlake, TX PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Hubert D. Callihan CTC, Johnstown, PA K. Joseph Cleetus CERC, Morgantown, WV Mark Fox University of Toronto, Canada Anthony J. Gadient SCRA, N. Charleston, SC Ted Goranson Sirius-Beta Martin Hardwick RPI, Troy, NY Michael N. Huhns MCC, Austin, TX Giuseppe Iazeolla University of Roma at TorVergata, Roma, Italy Vasudevan Jagannathan CERC/WVU, Morgantown, WV Mark Klein Boeing, Seattle, WA Alexander Kott Carnegie Group, Pittsburgh, PA Howard A. Kuhn CTC, Johnstown, PA Zenon Kulpa Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland Andrew Kusiak University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA J.W. Lewis GE, Schenectady, NY Felix Londono G. University EAFIT, Columbia Biren Prasad EDS/GM Jacky Prucz WVU, Morgantown, WV Zbigniew W. Ras UNL, Charleston, NC Jose M. Sanchez Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, Monterrey, Mexico Alexander Smirnov IIA, St. Petersburg, Russia John E. Sneckenberger MAE, WVU, Morgantown, WV Richard Mark Soley OMG, Framingham, MA Duvvury Sriram MIT, Cambridge, MA Katia P. Sycara CMU, Pittsburgh, PA Robert E. Swanson CTC, Johnstown, PA George Trapp SCS, WVU, Morgantown, WV Ghislain C. Vansteenkiste University of Gent, Belgium Jozef Winkowski Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Anand J. Paul Lori L. Ash Chris Bagnall Leila A. Bearjar Kathleen T. Buynack Stephanie D. Freidline Amy J. Hoffman James S. Kane Linda R. Pollock John T. Sinosky Karen L. Sossong Tricia A. Wright BROCHURES AND DETAILED INFORMATION: A brochure has been developed for this conference and is in the process of being professionally printed. In addition, there are going to be about 20 booths (10'x10') where exhibitors can display and share their methodologies, expertise, products and other things with the conference attendees. Already we have a few major companies interested in setting up such booths. The CE94 Brochure and Registration Forms and Exhibit Information have been put in an anonymous ftp site as PostScript files. In addition, a small text file containing only the registration form has also been placed in this anonymous site. Details are given below. The Brochure and Registration Forms are in color and can easily be printed on a color printer. However, they will print on a black and white printer also. The Exhibit Information file and the Forms file are black and white and can be easily printed on any black and white printer. The above mentioned three files are available through anonymous ftp on the machine server1.ctc.com (Node # 147.160.1.2). You may login as anonymous and use your e-mail address as the password. The files are in the directory pub/ce94. ce_94.ps Contains the brochure itself which contains the detailed program of the conference and the registration forms. It also contains other general information that will be useful to you. There are 8 pages in this file. exhibit.ps Contains information about setting up exhibits at the conference site. This file contains 3 pages. forms.txt Is a text file and contains only the registration form, names of people in the program and organizing committee. This file contains 2 pages. You may fill out the forms.txt file and e-mail it to us as an advance copy. However, formal registration will only be accepted on a hard copy of the registration form (either the one in the brochure or in the forms.txt file) with your signature. If you cannot access these files through ftp, I will send them to you by e-mail upon request. Hard copies of these files will also be mailed out to people who want them -- however, this will take a month or so. Do not hesitate to contact me should there be any questions or need for further information. Looking forward to seeing you all at the conference. Thank you. Anand J. Paul Conference Chair Concurrent Technologies Corporation 1450 Scalp Avenue Johnstown, PA 15904 USA Telephone: (814) 269-2501 Fax: (814) 269-4458 Internet: paul@ctc.com ******************************************************************* -- REPLY TO: e-mail: paul@ctc.com Telephone: (814) 269-2501 Fax: (814) 269-4458 Mailing Address: Anand J. Paul Concurrent Technologies Corporation 1450 Scalp Avenue Johnstown, PA 15904 From lcc@pakt.unit.no Fri May 20 02:27:36 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28104; Fri, 20 May 94 02:27:36 CDT Received: from gibson.pakt.unit.no by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA02527; Fri, 20 May 94 02:27:17 CDT Received: from localhost by gibson.pakt.unit.no with SMTP id AA09388 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.4 for all-iceimt@einet.net); Fri, 20 May 94 09:21:45 +0200 Message-Id: <9405200721.AA09388@gibson.pakt.unit.no> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Research review on Enterprise Modelling Date: Fri, 20 May 94 09:21:42 +0100 From: Lars Christian Christensen Hi, as a doctoral student, I'm currently looking for a research review in the area of enterprise modelling. Are you aware of any review like this or aware of any person which could have some valuable information concerning this, please let me know. Lars Chr Christensen Program on Applied Coordination Technology(PAKT) Univerity of Trondheim NORWAY E-mail: lcc@pakt.unit.no From alex_bejan@vnet.ibm.com Fri May 20 07:24:03 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12231; Fri, 20 May 94 07:24:03 CDT Received: from VNET.IBM.COM by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA03063; Fri, 20 May 94 07:23:37 CDT Message-Id: <9405201223.AA03063@einet.net> Received: from BCRVMMS1 by VNET.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2996; Fri, 20 May 94 08:23:05 EDT Date: Fri, 20 May 94 08:22:46 EDT From: alex_bejan@vnet.ibm.com To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Workshop Second Announcement & Call for Papers WORKSHOP ON DEEP KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISE MODELLING (during the Second International Conference on Conceptual Structures) August 19th, 1994 University of Maryland - College Park, MD AIMS AND SCOPE Software applications for industry are receiving a good deal of critique recently from their users, who perceive them as old, immature and out of sync with the current directions in computing. In approaching this issue, industry solution providers are more and more making use of complex product and process models, that are able to drive large sections of the enterprise in an increasingly automatic manner. (By 'models' we understand 'explicit, active models', that can be accessed by other software modules without or with minimal human intervention.) Standards have been elaborated for dealing with the diversity of modelling techniques and the many conflicts among models. PDES/STEP and ANSI IRDS are among the best known, but many others exist, that cover specific areas of industrial information. Due to the extensive use of standards, enterprise modelling is becoming the keystone of the new generation of software tools for the industrial sector. Despite elaborate and large models used by the new, 'open', enterprise solutions, the applications using them have no easy way to access and manipulate the wealth of information imbedded in models. This is due to the lack of formal semantics that can be processed directly by machines. Thus, applications with heavy, complex modules, that hard-code manipulations of models according to their intended meaning, are the norm today. The purpose of this workshop is to investigate the formalization, storage and management of the deep knowledge associated with enterprise models. Conceptual graphs are an attractive solution, due to their semantic power, ease of human use and computer processability. Other systems of logic are equally interesting though. EXPRESS, defined by the PDES/STEP standards committees, is also attractive for product data exchange and other, more general, purposes. We will try to better understand how different knowledge representation methods can be used in the analysis, translation and integration of enterprise models. From conceptual design to database and inference engines for semantically rich models, from ontology and taxonomies as reference models to contextual analysis, this workshop will debate any method or technique susceptible to being a solution to the next generation enterprise modelling tools. Papers are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas of enterprise knowledge modeling: - knowledge representation of deep semantics - conceptual design (intuitiveness vs. processability) - semantic enhancement of simple enterprise models - Conceptual Graphs and EXPRESS - ontology, taxonomies, reference models - deep knowledge sharing (product/process information exchange) - contextual analysis enterprise models - the model driven enterprise concept and implementation - automatic semantic model translation - integration of models and contexts - modularity of contexts - database and inference engines for deep knowledge - enterprise model integration SUBMISSIONS Authors should send an extended abstract of their proposed submission, no longer than 2 pages single-spaced, with the names and complete addresses (including e-mail and FAX #, if possible) of all authors on the first page. Abstracts should be received by June 15th 1994. Electronic mail submissions (to both chairmen) are strongly encouraged, with only plain ASCII text files accepted. Alternatively, 5 copies of the abstract should be mailed to either of the program co-chairmen. Authors will be notified of acceptance of their papers by July 5th 1994. The final version of the accepted papers should be received in camera ready format no later than August 5 1994. The following guidelines should be followed: - Length: 10-20 pages, not numbered, and single-spaced - Printing Area: up to 6.5'' x 9'' (i.e. about 16.5cm x 23cm) - Font: 12pt (preferably Computer Modern or Times Roman) - First Page: title, authors (name/affiliation/address), abstract (100-200 words long) and up to 5 keywords Authors are suggested to use the LaTeX article style. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: June 15, 1994 Notification of acceptance: July 5, 1994 Camera ready papers due: August 5, 1994 SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS Proposals for software demonstration are encouraged, and should be submitted no later than July 15th, 1994. FEES A US $35.00 fee will be charged to all attendees. This will include refreshments during the workshop break and a copy of the proceedings. A student fee of US $25.00 is available. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alex Bejan E-mail: alex_bejan@vnet.ibm.com IBM Corporation, 6AMA/1211 1000 NW 51st Street Boca Raton FL 33431 USA Michel Wermelinger E-mail: mw@fct.unl.pt Departamento de Informatica Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2825 Monte da Caparica PORTUGAL Second International Conference on CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES ICCS'94 August 16-20, 1994 University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA ADVANCE PROGRAM 10th Anniversary Meeting Conceptual graphs (cgs) comprise a representational language which consists of a logic with a graph notation. It integrates several features from semantic net and frame representations as well. Research teams around the world are working on the application and extension of cgs theory in many domains. This conference is the forum in which cgs researchers report their progress. Domains featured this year are natural language processing, data base modeling, and knowledge representation for expert systems. As well, the conference will support three special interest workshops: PEIRCE: A Conceptual Graph Workbench, Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory, and Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling. Sponsored by: l'Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada Unisys AAAI University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services AT & T Bell Laboratories Sun Systems WELCOME TO ICCS'94 This year we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of "Conceptual structures: Information processing in mind and machine" (Sowa, 1984) and ten years of development in both the theory and application of conceptual graphs (cgs). ICCS'94 marks a turning point as we move into our second decade. We present for your consideration a program of quality and diversity. Outstanding speakers will present a retrospective of the last ten years and their views on the future. A selection of very high quality papers will be presented covering, among other subjects, general problem solving, knowledge engineering, natural language understanding, formal languages and contexts. ICCS'93, last year at Laval, signaled our coming of age. It bound our European and North American communities with our Australian and Asian contingents. We hope to build on that foundation. We anticipate that ICCS'94 will be the cornerstone of development in the next decade. It will be an event you will not want to miss, where the future promise of cgs will be outlined and the real challenges to come will be highlighted. In line with our focus on future development, we shall place special emphasis on student and first-time participants. We look forward to welcoming you to the Washington area and to sharing with you a stimulating new-year celebration. Judith P. Dick William Tepfenhart PROGRAM COMMITTEE Honorary Chair John F. Sowa State Univ. of New York sowa@turing.pacss.binghamton.edu General Chair Judith P. Dick Univ. of Maryland dick@glue.umd.edu Program Chair William Tepfenhart AT&T Bell Laboratories bill@violin.att.com European Coordinator Pavel Kocura Loughborough Univ. of Technology P.Kocura@lut.ac.uk Peirce Workshop Chair Gerard Ellis Univ. of Queensland ged@cs.uq.oz.au Knowledge Acquisition Workshop Chair D. Lukose Univ. of New England lukose@peirce.une.edu.au Enterprise Modeling Workshop Chair Alex Bejan IBM Corporation bejan@vnet.IBM.COM Alex Bejan, IBM Corp. Barbara Brunson, Scarborough College Univ. Michel Chein, LIRMM Peter Creasy, Univ. of Queensland Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser Univ. Harry Delugach, Univ. of Alabama Bonnie Dorr, Univ. of Maryland John Eddy, AT&T Bell Laboratories Bruno Emond, Univ. du Quebec John Esch, Paramax Jean Fargues, IBM Corp. Timothy Finin, Univ. of Maryland Norman Foo, Univ. of Sydney Helen Gigley, Naval Research Laboratory James Hampton, City Univ. of London John Heaton, Loughborough Univ. of Techn. Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland Graeme Hirst, Univ. of Toronto Fritz Lehman, GRANDAI Software Guy Mineau, Univ. Laval Quebec City Robert Mohr, PRC Bernard Moulin, Univ. Laval Quebec City M. L. Mugnier, LIRMM Sung Myaeng, Syracuse Univ. Peter Oehrstroem, Alborg Univ. Ghassan Qada, AT&T Bell Laboratories Stephen Regoczei, Trent Univ. Doug Skuce, Univ. of Ottawa Dagobert Soergel, Univ. of Maryland Eileen Way, SUNY, Binghamton Amy Weinberg, Univ. of Maryland M. H. Williams, Heriot-Watt Univ. CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Tuesday, August 16 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address 9:30 - 10:30 Opening Address - Eileen Way 11:00 - 11:30 Session 1 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Session 2 3:00 - 3:30 Session 3 4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion 5:30 Reception Wednesday, August 17 8:00 - 9:15 Registration 9:00 - 10:30 Session 4 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Pat Hayes 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Session 5 3:00 - 5:00 Session 6 Thursday, August 18 8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting 9:00 - 10:30 Session 7 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Jack Minker 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Session 8 3:30 - 4:30 Closing Address - John Sowa 4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting 5:30 Buffet Reception Friday, August 19 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory Saturday, August 20 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Enterprise Modeling INVITED TALKS EILEEN WAY, SUNY at Binghamton "Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future" Pay Hayes, Beckman Institute, Urbana, Illinois "Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation" Jack Minker, University of Maryland at College Park "Deductive Databases - A Retrospective" John F. Sowa, SUNY at Binghamton "Representations of Representations" CONFERENCE PROGRAM Tuesday August 16 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address and Conference Opening 9:30 - 10:30 Opening Address - "Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future" Eileen Way, (USA) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 1: Rational Problem Solving 11:00 - 11:30 "A Rational Goal-Seeking Agent Using Conceptual Graphs" G. Mann (Australia) 11:30 - 12:00 "Attitudes: Keys to Problem Identification" W. Tepfenhart (USA) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Session 2: Natural Language I 1:30 - 2:00 "Pragmatic Semantics by Conceptual Graphs" M. Willems (The Netherlands) 2:00 - 2:30 "The Temporal Structure of a Discourse and Verb Tense Determination" B. Moulin, S. Dumas (Canada) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 3: Natural Language II 3:00 - 3:30 "Extracting Explicit and Implicit Knowledge from Natural Language Texts" J. Sykes, V. Konstantinou, P. Morse (United Kingdom) 3:30 - 4:00 "Linguistic Processing of Text for a Large-scale Conceptual Retrieval System" S. Myaeng, C. Khoo, M. Li (USA) 4:00 - 4:30 "Multilingual Analyzer of Medical Texts" A.-M. Rassinoux, R. Baud, J.-R. Scheer (Switzerland) 4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion: Conceptual Graphs in Natural Language 5:30 Reception Wednesday August 17 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Session 4: Knowledge Representation and Applications 9:00 - 9:15 "Conceptual Graphs and Manufacturing Process" D. Boning, M. McIlrath (USA) 9:15 - 9:45 "Knowledge Visualization from Conceptual Structures" W. Cyre, S. Balachandar, A. Thaka (USA) 9:45 - 10:00 "A Cooperative Program for the Construction of a Concept Type Lattice" M. Chein, M. Leclerc (France) 10:00 - 10:30 "An Object-Oriented Logic for Conceptual and Contextual Programming: The PROLOG++ Language" A. Kabbaj, C. Frasson, M. Kaltenback, J.Y. Djamen (Canada) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - "Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation" Pat Hayes (USA) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Session 5: Conceptual Graph Theory 1:30 - 2:00 "Basic Conceptual Structures Theory" M. Wermelinger, J. Lopes (Portugal) 2:00 - 2:30 "Views, Mappings and Functions: Essential Definitions of the Conceptual Graph Theory" G. Mineau (Canada) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 6: Contexts and Canons 3:00 - 3:25 "Contexts and Concepts, Abstract Duals" J. Esch (USA) 3:25 - 3:45 "Contexts, Canons, and Coreferent Types" J. Esch (USA) 3:45 - 4:15 "Using Contexts to Represent Text" J. Dick (USA) 4:15 - 4:30 "Constrained Line of Identity: An Approach to Conditional Joins" H. Delugach, T. Hink (USA) 4:30 - 4:45 "Identification of coreferences with Conceptual Graphs" S. Shankaranarayanan, W. Cyre (USA) 4:30 - 5:00 "Similarities of Microtheory and Conceptual Graphs Contexts" J. Esch (USA) Thursday August 18 8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting Session 7: Data Modeling 9:00 - 9:30 "UDS: A Universal Data Structure" R. Levinson (USA) 9:30 - 9:45 "Conceptual Graphs as a Canonical Data Model" P. Creasy (Australia) 9:45 - 10:00 "Some Peircean Problems Regarding Graphs for Time and Modality" P. Oehrstroem (Denmark), J. Schmidt (Czech Republic), H. van den Berg (The Netherlands) 10:00 - 10:30 "Inference Systems for Conceptual Graphs" B. Chosh, V. Wuwongse (Thailand) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - "Deductive Databases - A Retrospective" J. Minker (USA) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Session 8: Conceptual Graphs and Data Conceptual Modeling 1:30 - 2:00 "Exploiting the Induced Order on Type-Labeled Graphs for Fast Knowledge Retrieval" G. Ellis (Australia), F. Lehman (USA) 2:00 - 2:15 "Adaptive Relational Storage for Conceptual Graphs" P. Bowen, P. Kocura (United Kingdom) 2:15 - 2:30 "A Class of Conceptual Graphs with Polynomial Iso-projection" M. Linquere (France) 2:30 - 3:00 "Conceptual Graphs for Relational Databases Standardization" B. Barbonneil, O. Haemmerle (France) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:30 Closing Address - "Representations of Representation" John Sowa (USA) 4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting 5:30 Buffet Reception Friday August 19 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop 2: Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory Saturday August 20 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling WORKSHOPS 1. Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench Chairperson: G. Ellis (Australia) PEIRCE is an international project, the purpose of which is to integrate conceptual graph tool and application development. We shall discuss implementation techniques for conceptual graphs, including databases, programs, language standards, workbench programing standards, dictionaries, and graphical user interfaces. Applications and requirements for natural language processing, information systems engineering, software engineering, and machine learning will be included as well. 2. Knowledge Acquisition using Conceptual Graph Theory Chairperson: D. Lukose (Australia) The major issues to be discussed at the workshop are when, how, and where particular knowledge acquisition paradigms work successfully. Consequently, this discussion will focus on the prototypical knowledge structures requisite for the knowledge acquisition process, the CG operators, and the different knowledge processing activities that will enable the encoding of the domain knowledge into knowledge base systems. A better understanding of "when," "how," and "where" questions will no doubt help to lay a solid foundation for development of new knowledge acquisition paradigms based on conceptual graph theory. 3. Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling Chairperson: A. Bejan (USA) The purpose of the Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling Workshop is to investigate the formalization, storage and management of knowledge for enterprise models. Conceptual graphs are attractive due to their semantic power, ease of use, and processability, but other systems of logic are equally interesting. Participants will debate any method or technique that may bring a solution to the next generation enterprise information modeling tools. INVITED TALKS "Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future" Eileen Way, State University of New York at Binghamton. August 16, 9:30 - 10:30 It has been ten years since John Sowa's book "Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine" was first published. Since that time, the representational language known as Conceptual Graphs has been adopted by researchers all over the world for a wide variety of tasks. This tenth anniversary is an appropriate time to look at the growth and evolution of conceptual graphs, the changes in the field of knowledge representation, and the significance of the kind of ontological engineering involved in representing knowledge for intelligent systems. "Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation." Pat Hayes, Beckman Institute, Urbana, Illinois. August 17, 11:00 - 12:00 Conventional semantic accounts of knowledge representation systems use the jargon of contemporary mathematics to describe possible interpretations. While this is about as clear a language as one can hope to get for purposes of mathematical analysis, it leaves open an important philosophical question. Does mathematics describe a Platonic world of abstractions, or is it an idealized Aristotelian language for describing the actual world? For example, a "model" in model theory is defined as consisting of a set of individuals with various relational structures and certain recursive mappings from formal expressions. If one takes a Platonic view, these models are mathematical abstractions only tenuously connected to most real domains of application; but in an Aristotelian view, such a model might itself be a piece of the physical world. I hope to show that these different philosophical perspectives, which have been responsible for much recent debate, yield different intuitions on several technical issues, such as the significance of completeness theorems, the relationship between first-order and higher-order languages, and the relevance of "grounding" in fixing the meaning of knowledge representational formalisms. "Deductive Databases - A Retrospective" Jack Minker, University of Maryland at College Park August 18, 11:00 - 12:00 Starting approximately in 1978, deductive databases grew out of logic programming. We discuss some of the contributions that have been made to this field since that date. We emphasize the relationship between deductive databases and knowledge base systems. The role of integrity constraints both to support updates, and for semantic query optimization and cooperative answering, is discussed. Contributions to the semantics of deductive databases and implementations of such systems are also discussed. Finally, some directions for future developments are specified. "Representations of Representations" John F. Sowa, State University of New York at Binghamton August 18, 3:30 - 4:30 Since physical objects cannot be stored in computer memory, every program that interacts with the world must use abstract representations that serve as surrogates for the external objects. C. S. Peirce's theory of signs or semiotics provides an architectonic of categories for classifying and relating the various representations to the world and to each other. His three-way distinction of icon (imagelike representation that is similar to or homomorphic to some aspect of the object, index (pointer, address, or other physical mechanism for finding an object), and symbol (name or conventional association) helps to clarify many of the ongoing controversies about imagelike vs. symbolic representations. His system of interrelated signs provides the logical and philosophical foundation for the "symbol grounding" issues about how symbols are related to the world and for the metalevel issues of how symbols are related to other symbols. In this talk, we review some of the ongoing controversies in AI, summarize Peirce's theory of signs, and appliy that theory to an analysis and clarification of the issues. CONFERENCE LOCATION ICCS'94 will be held at the Inn and Conference Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. Nine miles from the Nation's capital, College Park sits at the doorstep of some of the country's most important landmarks, monuments and institutions - from the United States Capitol, the White House and the Smithsonian to the Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. College Park is only a short drive from Baltimore - a great historical city famed for its arts and architecture, National Aquarium and colorful Inner Harbor - and Annapolis, the state capital and home of the U.S. Naval Academy. DIRECTIONS TO UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND INN AND CONFERENCE CENTER >From National (DCA) Airport: Upon leaving the airport, follow the signs to Washington, D.C. using the George Washington Parkway. Stay on the Parkway until you see the I-495 Rockville exit. Follow 495 until you get to the New Hampshire Avenue exit. Take the New Hampshire/Takoma Park exit. Stay on New Hampshire Avenue and make a left at the 2nd light onto Adelphi Road. Drive approximately 3 miles on Adelphi Road through 2 traffic lights. At the third light, make a left turn onto University Boulevard and an immediate right into the parking garage. The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education. >From BWI Airport: Upon exiting the airport follow signs for I-95 (towards Washington). I-95 will take you to 95 South. Follow 95 South approximately 30 miles. Stay on 95 South until you get to the Route 1 South/College Park exit (Exit 25B). Follow Route 1 to the 1st exit for the University of Maryland (Systems Administration). Take this exit (193) which immediately turns into University Boulevard. Keep on University Boulevard and go through 2 traffic lights. At the 3rd light (intersection of University Boulevard & Adelphi Road) make a U-turn and an immediate right into the parking garage. The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education. >From Dulles (IAD) Airport: Upon leaving the airport, follow the signs towards Washington, D.C. until you see the signs for I-495. Take the exit towards Rockville. Follow 495 until you get to the exit for New Hampshire Avenue. Take the New Hampshire/Takoma Park exit. Stay on New Hampshire Avenue and make a left at the 2nd light onto Adelphi Road. Drive approximately 3 miles on Adelphi Road through 2 traffic ligths. At the third light, make a left turn onto University Boulevard and an immediate right into the parking garage. The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education. ACCOMMODATIONS The conference facility is the Inn and Conference Center at the University or Maryland. To make a room reservation at the Inn and Conference Center, please use the registration form on the next page. Additional rooms are available at the Greenbelt Marriott at $97 - $112 for a regular room and $107 - $122 for an upgraded concierge room. Marriott Reservations: (301) 441-3700. Quality Inn has rooms for $44 - $49. Please ask for University of Maryland rates. Quality Inn Reservations: (301) 864-5820. Reservations at these facilities should be made directly. ***************************************************************************** ICCS'94 REGISTRATION FORM Name: ___________________________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Telephone: ___________________________ Tax: ________________________________ e-mail: ______________________________ ___ $325 Conference fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94 ___ $370 Conference fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94 ___ $125 Student fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94 ___ $175 Student fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94 ___ $50 PEIRCEWorkshop ___ $40 PEIRCE Workshop, student ___ $35 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop ___ $25 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, student ___ $35 Enterprise Modeling Workshop _ $25 Enterprise Modeling Workshop, student Amount Enclosed: $________________ Conference fee includes proceedings and receptions. 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SEND BY JULY 15, 1994 TO: Reservations The Inn and Conference Center University of Maryland University College College Park, MD 20742, USA Tel.: (301) 985-7310, Fax: (301) 985-7445 From jao@itdpcgate.dsto.gov.au Sun May 22 17:34:37 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA27841; Sun, 22 May 94 17:34:37 CDT Received: from fang.dsto.gov.au by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA08881; Sun, 22 May 94 17:33:34 CDT Received: from itdpcgate.dsto.gov.au by fang.dsto.gov.au with SMTP (5.61+IDA+MU/DSTO-1.0) id AA28603; Mon, 23 May 1994 08:03:50 +0930 Received: by itdpcgate.dsto.gov.au with Microsoft Mail id <2DE06359@itdpcgate.dsto.gov.au>; Mon, 23 May 94 08:03:37 CST From: "O'Neill, John" To: all-iceimt Subject: RE: Workshop Date: Mon, 23 May 94 08:25:00 CST Message-Id: <2DE06359@itdpcgate.dsto.gov.au> Encoding: 16 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Hi, I've just started a PhD which is investigating integrating organisation theory and symbolic machine learning techniques. I saw your calls for papers for the WORKSHOP ON DEEP KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISE MODELLING, and I think from what I read that other people are working on similar problems. Do you have any references for enterprise modelling, PDES/STEP, ANSI IRDS. Your assistance would be much appreciated. John O'Neill DSTO C3 Research Centre Australia Email: jao@itd.dsto.gov.au From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Sun May 22 23:47:16 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15064; Sun, 22 May 94 23:47:16 CDT Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA09524; Sun, 22 May 94 23:47:02 CDT Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA16484; Sun, 22 May 1994 21:47:00 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 21:46:58 PDT From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net, shade@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Vote for a CE Paper Solicitation Message-Id: Would you please recommend to me the best paper on concurrent engineering you know of, in addition to your own? August 8-12, Mark Cutkosly and I are teaching a public seminar titled PROVIDING COMPUTATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CONCURRENT ENGINEERING. In addition to doing some case studies and playing with some coordination tools developed at the Stanford Center for Design Research (CDR), we will survey the literature on various CE topics. I'd like to make the survey not just a personal opinion. So, would you please considering recommending to me your favorite CE paper other than your own? I'm looking for important issues, techniques, and applications. If you the think the paper has something else to recommend it, please let me know. Mark and I will get paid for teaching - I hope that will not inhibit votes. I will compile the results, if there are enough of them, on this list. Thanks for your help. Charles ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ From jago@iist.unu.edu Mon May 23 20:34:39 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA13597; Mon, 23 May 94 20:34:39 CDT Received: from hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA11304; Mon, 23 May 94 20:34:00 CDT Received: from iist.unu.edu ([192.203.232.5]) by hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk with SMTP (1.37.109.9/16.2) id AA2893322866; Tue, 24 May 1994 09:33:07 +0800 Received: from roeskva.iist.unu.edu by iist.unu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02720; Tue, 24 May 94 09:34:57 HKT Received: from localhost by roeskva.iist.unu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13286; Tue, 24 May 94 09:34:39 HKT Message-Id: <9405240134.AA13286@roeskva.iist.unu.edu> To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: book: Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing Date: Tue, 24 May 94 09:34:32 +0800 From: Jan Goossenaerts The proceedings of the DIISM'93 workshop (Tokyo, November 1993) (DIISM = Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing) have recently been published by Elsevier Science Publishers BV as IFIP Transactions B-14 title: Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing editors: H. Yoshikawa, J. Goossenaerts price: USD 134.25 or DFL 235.00 ISBN: 0-444-81681 X -- ISSN: 0926-5481 Please send enquiries (including full address) to: Elsevier Science Publishers BV (Imprint North Holland) attn: Petra van der Meer, P.O. Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fax: +31(20)5862-616 in the USA & Canada: Elsevier Science B.V., P.O. Box 945, Madison Square Station New York NY 10159-0945, USA Fax: (1) 212-633-3680 TABLE OF CONTENTS KEYNOTE PAPERS Architectures for Integrating Manufacturing Activities and Enterprises 3 T. J. Williams, P. Bernus, J. Brosvic, D. Chen, G. Doumeingts, L. Nemes, J.L. Nevins, B. Vallespir, J. Vlietstra, and D. Zoetekouw Discussion 17 Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Technical Cooperation that Transcends 19 Cultural Differences H. Yoshikawa Discussion 39 ENTERPRISE MODELLING FRAMEWORKS The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (invited paper) 43 T.J. Williams Discussion 63 CIMOSA: Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Integration Using 65 a Process-based Approach (invited paper) F. Vernadat Discussion 81 Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) (invited paper) 85 A.-W. Scheer GIM (GRAI Integrated Methodology) and its Evolutions - A Methodology 101 to Design and Specify Advanced Manufacturing Systems G. Doumeingts, D. Chen, B. Vallespir, P. Fenie, and F. Marcotte Discussion 117 MODELLING TOOLS & CONCEPTS Enterprise Formulae and Information Infrastructures for Manufacturing 123 (invited paper) J. Goossenaerts Towards a Formal Agent-Oriented Requirements Definition of Manufacturing 141 Systems M. Derroitte, E. Dubois, P. Du Bois, M. Petit, and J.-P. Michel Discussion 157 Enterprise Process Integration Model and Infrastructure 159 C. Bussler A Social Human Activity Model as an Information Infrastructure System 171 R. Atsumi An Enterprise Model as a Design Tool for Information Infrastructure 183 U. Graefe, and A. W. Chan REQUIREMENTS AND CASE STUDIES The Role of Information Systems Infrastructure in Production Management 195 (invited paper) K. Inagaki Discussion 205 Information Infrastructure Requirements for Preserving Flexibility of 209 Flexible Manufacturing Systems (invited paper) H. Van Brussel, and P. Valckenaers Discussion 223 CIMOSA Pilot Implementation for Technology Transfer 225 B.R. Katzy, W. Eversheim, M.Dobberstein, K. Feuerborn, J. Friedrich, O. Krah, G. Mueller, and F.-J. Stepprath Discussion 237 The Use of Design Management Frameworks to Support an Information 239 Infrastructure for CIM D.C.H. Sng, T.K. Wang, and R.K.L. Gay Discussion 251 A Framework of Intellectual Infrastructure for Complex Product Realization 253 Y. Shibata, and T. Sumita Conflicts in Manufacturing Systems - A Problem Setting 265 M. Horvath, A. Markus, and J. Vancza Discussion 277 Intelligent Assembly System in Distributed Production Environment 281 E. Arai, N. Uchiyama, and K. Iwata NORMAN/DEBORA: a Powerful CAD-Integrating Automatic Sequencing System 295 Including Advanced DOE/RSM Techniques for Various Engineering Optimization Problems R. Cartuyvels, and L.H. Dupas Optimized Information Structure for Design and Scheduling 307 R. Rentsch A Product Assembly and Restoration Planning System for Ecologically 319 Conscious Factories S. Wong, J.C. Fu, and C.A. Troy Man-Machine Cooperation in Real-Time Control: Two Case Studies for Future 331 Control Systems X. Gandibleux, I. Crevits, and P. Millot INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY A Computer-supported Framework for Concurrent Engineering - 345 An Approach Based on Virtual Manufacturing (invited paper) F. Kimura Discussion 361 Time Critical Communication Architecture in Factory Automation (inv. paper) 363 N. Nakano Architectures for Real-Time Intelligent Control Systems (invited paper) 375 M.G. Rodd, J. Holt, and A.V. Jones Engineering Office Systems for Concurrent Engineering 389 H. Masui, A. Tanaka, and K. Miyoshi Cooperation Issues in Holonic Manufacturing Systems 401 S.M. Deen Transaction Model of Automated Guided Vehicles 413 S. Hamada, and M. Takizawa PARTICIPANTS & AUTHORS Participants' List 427 Index of Authors 431 From neches@isi.edu Wed May 25 13:39:58 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07799; Wed, 25 May 94 13:39:58 CDT Received: from quark.isi.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA14552; Wed, 25 May 94 13:39:53 CDT Received: from isd9.isi.edu by quark.isi.edu (5.65c/5.61+local-16) id ; Wed, 25 May 1994 11:39:33 -0700 Message-Id: <199405251839.AA01125@quark.isi.edu> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: job opening Cc: speyer@mcc.com Reply-To: neches@isi.edu, WIll@isi.edu Date: Wed, 25 May 94 11:40:22 PDT From: Robert Neches I am going on leave from ISI to serve as an ARPA program manager for 2-3 years, and ISI has decided to publically advertise one of my responsibilities as a full-time job. A job description follows. Please pass this on to anyone who might be appropriate. Note that responses go to Peter Will (Will@isi.edu). Thanks, -- Bob ====================================================================== Robert Neches USC/ISI, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA Phone: 310/822-1511, Fax: 310/823-6714 ====================================================================== Project Leader -- FAST Research Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California There is an immediate opening at the project leader level in the research component of ISI's FAST effort. FAST is an ongoing research project and experimental service in electronic commerce, exploring issues required to achieve a vision of moving business onto electronic networks, enabling rapid acquisition of goods via largely paperless, on-line communications. FAST is organizationally divided into two closely cooperating groups. The operations group is responsible for an on-line testbed service and development/maintenance of its operational information systems. The research group is responsible for longer-term technology development and infusion of advanced technology into the operational system. The project leader of the research group will work closely with the operations group. The long-range vision behind FAST includes scalable volume. We seek to support one electronic marketplace that admits a range of users from engineering/prototyping through intermittent purchasing by small business through large numbers of transactions by government/industry procurement centers. The vision includes support for business relationships beyond simple purchasing (e.g., engineering and design planning information and business processes such as vendor qualification on-line). The vision also incorporates business webs: companies should eventually be able to do both buying and selling via the same electronic marketplace, and components of the electronic marketplace infrastructure (e.g., brokering services) may themselves be on-line businesses. To move toward this vision, issues addressed in FAST research cover a wide range, including: - intelligent, distributed representations of vendor product lines and capabilities - robust, extensible translation between differing data formats and communications media - machine interpretible specification of business processes and requirements - active catalogs - DB bridging, meshing, and gluing - metering and charging for information services - security - HCI and CSCW issues in both external interfaces and internal operations of electronic commerce services - system architecture issues in software interfaces These issues are explored in the context of FAST's on-line testbed, which currently provides procurement support for over 135 customers and accesses over 3000 suppliers. The service deals with a range of business functions, including validation of requested parts, identifying potential sources of supply, obtaining quotes, placing orders expediting delivery, providing accounting, etc. The ideal candidate is familiar with a wide range of advanced technology, and is therefore capable of defining and executing an innovative research program responsive to significant issues in the operational testbed (rather than seeking to define problems so as to justify use of pre-selected technical approaches). The candidate should be sensitive to practical applications issues, and must be able to work effectively with the testbed service group to define technology requirements and organize smooth transitions of new technology into the operational system. The University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute is an equal-opportunity employer with competitive salary and benefits packages. For further information, contact: Peter Will Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 310/822-1511, Fax 310/823-6714 Internet: Will@isi.edu USC/ISI is an affirmative action / equal opportunity employer. From Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Thu May 26 12:01:26 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12752; Thu, 26 May 94 12:01:26 CDT Received: from imag.imag.fr by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA17470; Thu, 26 May 94 12:01:15 CDT Received: from isis.imag.fr by imag.imag.fr with SMTP id AA01570 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 26 May 1994 18:58:48 +0200 Received: from [129.88.39.225] (mac_sympa-5.imag.fr) by isis.imag.fr with SMTP id AA06819 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 26 May 1994 19:01:20 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 19:01:20 +0200 Message-Id: <199405261701.AA06819@isis.imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Subject: IMSE'94 Workshop Announcement For distribution to all-iceimt members 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 ________________________________________________________________________ From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Mon Jun 13 23:00:35 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA21065; Mon, 13 Jun 94 23:00:35 CDT Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA01108; Mon, 13 Jun 94 23:00:31 CDT Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA08559; Mon, 13 Jun 1994 21:00:30 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 21:00:29 PDT From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net, share@bimini.stanford.edu Subject: CE Paper Recommendations Message-Id: >Would you please recommend to me the best paper on concurrent >engineering you know of, in addition to your own? > >August 8-12, Mark Cutkosly and I are teaching a seminar titled >COMPUTATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CONCURRENT ENGINEERING for >Stanford University and the Western Institute of Computer Science >(WICS). In addition to doing some case studies and playing with some >coordination tools developed at the Stanford Center for Design >Research (CDR), we will survey the literature on various CE topics. >I'd like to make the survey not just a personal opinion. > >So, would you please considering recommending to me your favorite CE >paper other than your own? I'm looking for important issues, >techniques, and applications. If you the think the paper has something >else to recommend it, please let me know. > >I will compile the results, if there are enough of them, on this list. >Thanks for your help. --------------------- The results were slim, though many people wanted to know them. One person sent me their own paper - doesn't count. One vote for: _CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM_ ESPRIT Consortium AMICE. Project 688/5288, Vol. 1 Springer-Verlag ISBN 3 540 56356 7 One vote for: "A Distributed Knowledge-Based Approach for Planning and Controlling Projects", Ai-Mei Chang and Andrew D. and Andrew B. Whinston, _IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics_, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp.1537-1550, November/December, 1993. One vote for these two papers: "Concurrent Engineering" Kamar Singh - a case study from GE Aircraft Engines E-mail:SINGHKJ@crdgw2.crd.ge.com "Coordinating the Virtual Team" - a more concept oriented paper Concurrent Engineering Research Center(CERC) E-mail:srobin@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu Three votes for the whole special issue on CE of _IEEE Computer_, January 1993, with a special recommendation for the PACT paper. --------------------- Obviously, the whole special issue of IEEE Computer won. I will let you know my own list that I will have compiled by the end of July for the course, which is described in WWW URL "http://cdr.stanford.edu/html/WICS/course-outline.html". Thanks to everyone who sent a message about this, cp PS Someone furnished this, which I pass along without evaluation: ************APPENDIX: 1993 CERA Papers ************************** CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS Papers published in Volume I, Issues 1-4 in the 1993 Calender Year ------------------------------------------------------------------ Volume I, Number 1 -------------------- Information Management for Concurrent Engineering: Research Issues: B.Prasad, EDS, Warren, MI, and R.S.Morenc and R.M.Rangan, SDRC, Milford, OH. Dynamic Decomposition Strategies in the Conceptual Modeling of Design Objects: M.A.Rosenman, University of Sydney, Australia. Design Data Storage and Extraction using Objects: A.R.LeBlanc, and G.M.Fadel, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Developing Feature-Based Manufacturing Applications Using PDES/STEP: T.H.Liu and G.W.Fischer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Managing the Product Realization Process in CE: An Evaluation Model: J.R.Dixon and M.R.Duffey, University of Massachusetts, MA. Evaluation Methodology for Post Manufacturing Issues in Life Cycle Design: K.Ishii, C.F.Eubanks, and M.Marks, Ohio State University, OH. An Optimization System with Integrated Knowledge Base: G.Bengu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ. ********************************************************************* Volume I, Number 2 ------------------ Computer Aided Requirements Management: J.Fiksel and F.Hayes-Roth, Cimflex Teknowledge Corp., Palo Alto, CA. A Systematic Approach to Conceptual Design: R.H.Sturges, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, Pittsburgh, PA. Feature Modeling Incorporating Tolerance and Production Process for Concurrent Design: D.Xue and Z.Dong, University of Victoria, B.C, Canada. An Intelligent Design for Manufacturability System for Sheet Metal Parts: A.de S.Lazaro, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and D.T.Engquist and D.B.Edwards, University of Idaho, Moscow. Prototyping as a Core Development Process: P.Barkan, Stanford Univ. and M.Iansitl, Harvard Business School. *************************************************************** Volume I, Number 3 ------------------ A Medium for Sharing Design Knowledge among Engineering Tools: J.G.McGuire and R.N.Palavin, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab., J.C.Weber and J.M.Tenenbaum, En Integrated Technologies T.Gruber and G.Olsen, Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab., CA. Performance Analysis of Design Using Timed Petrl Nets: U.Belhe and A.Kuslak, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Product Quality in Optimization Models: D.J.Wilde, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. The Development of Virtual Concurrent Engieering and its Application to Design for Producibility: J.Schmitz and S.Desa, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Functional Requirements Mapping As a Framework for Concurrent Engineering: S.B.Billatos, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT and L.J.Grigely, CT. A Negotiation Platform for Cooperating Intelligent Systems: F.Polat and Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. ******************************************************************** Volume I, Number 4 ------------------ A Methodology to Support Concurrent Engineering in a Simulated Process Evaluation Environment (SPREE): N.V.Yetukuri, W.C.Prescott and G.W.Fischer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Design for Stamping: A Group Technology Based Approach: C.Poli, P.Dastidar, P.Mahajan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and R.J.Graves, RPI, Troy, NY. Integrated Design & Verification System for Finite Element Modeling: P.Jeppsson and A.Svoboda, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden. Automated Fixture Design for Concurrent Manufacturing Planning: Y.C.Chou, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. Modeling of the Knowledge in an Advisory System for Process Planning: J.Duda, Institute of Production Research, Poland. Design for Robust Performance: A Concurrent Engineering Approach:M.H.Gadallah and H.A.Elmaraghy, Mcmaster University, CA. ********************************************************************** ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Fri Jun 17 14:09:44 1994 Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26113; Fri, 17 Jun 94 14:09:44 CDT Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA11994; Fri, 17 Jun 94 14:09:42 CDT Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA13006; Fri, 17 Jun 94 15:09:39 EDT Return-Path: Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA12921; Fri, 17 Jun 94 15:07:41 EDT From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9406171907.AA12921@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: CERC Mosaic Server To: DAI-List@mcc.com Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 15:07:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: cerc@cerc.wvu.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 356 Sender: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC), West Virginia University, has setup a Mosaic server. Through this server, you can access all the technical reports, information on projects such as the one on Health Care sponsored by HPCC, and demos of some of our projects. To access this server use the following url: http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/ - juggy From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Sun Jul 10 13:59:50 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA09118; Sun, 10 Jul 94 13:59:50 CDT Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA08239; Sun, 10 Jul 94 13:59:43 CDT Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA01218; Sun, 10 Jul 1994 11:49:33 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 11:49:30 PDT From: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@sunrise.stanford.edu To: westerberg@cs.cmu.edu, dps+@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu, amarel@cs.rutgers.edu, knutilla@cme.nist.gov, farin@azrael.mitre.org, bwinner@chpc.org, brown@cme.nist.gov, pkhosla@arpa.mil, gene-o@ether.ladc.lockheed.com, reddy+@cmu.edu, eppinger@mit.edu, klyons@cme.nist.gov, rse@hpp.stanford.edu, fbp@andrew.cmu.edu, seliger@aic.hrl.hac.com, stefik@parc.xerox.com, jhm@mailbox.srv.cs.cmu.edu, DrRon18@aol.com, ethompson@arpa.mil, mgersh@arpa.mil, minneman@parc.xerox.com, wier@arpa.mil, sriram@laic.lockheed.com, lntalle@ca.sandia.gov, wimber@aic.lockheed.com, fertig@rpal.rockwell.com, martin@rpal.rockwell.com, sticklen@cps.msu.edu, mcdowelj@cps.msu.edu, morgenstern@dri.cornell.edu, rz@cs.cornell.edu, rfr@cs.utah.edu, cohen@cs.utah.edu, dbrown@cs.utah.edu, elks@msg.ti.com, nlos@msg.ti.com, sbj@wimpy0.psu.edu, wysk@ieman.tamu.edu, jsmith@tamu.edu, ln@draper.com, amadni@perceptronics.com, dwhitney@mit.edu, sfinger@cmu.edu, fbp@cdr.stanford.edu, eswaran.Subrahmanian@cs.cmu.edu, terk@cs.cmu.edu, drk@aic.lockheed.com, knutilla@cme.nist.gov, brodie@gte.com, boswell@iag.hp.com, msingh@bcr.cc.bellcore.com, jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu, jam@iti.org, msilva@cs.berkeley.edu, ritzer@dbresearch-berlin.de, share@bimini.stanford.edu, shade@sumex-aim.stanford.edu, ext-ei@mcc.com, all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: barnhill@hudson.stanford.edu, stanford.edu@bimini.stanford.edu Subject: Concurrent Engineering Class Announcement Message-Id: The Western Institute of Computer Science and The Stanford University Computer Science Department announce a week-long course on PROVIDING COMPUTATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CONCURRENT ENGINEERING August 8-12, 1994, Stanford University taught by: Mark Cutkosky Charles Petrie Stanford Center for Design Research 960 Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305-2232 FAX 415/725-8475 DESCRIPTION: This is a five-day course designed to cover the latest technologies for providing computer support for distributed design and development of electro-mechanical devices. We include not only a survey of the existing literature in concurrent engineering research but also an in-depth look at several new technologies developed in Stanford labs. We also describe the latest developments in Internet-based tools for collaborative development and two recent, relevant experiments in distributed agile design and development. The goal of the course is that the attendees leave understanding the issues and various approaches and tradeoffs, and with a comprehensive knowledge of relevant cutting edge technologies. PREREQUISITES: The participants should have either a computer or engineering-related background. There are no prerequisite texts for this course. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course is appropriate for system developers, technical managers, computer researchers, and computer-oriented engineers who want to gain insight into the capabilities, implementation and current trends in the emerging technology of collaborative parallel distributed design. INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Mark Cutkosky is on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Charles Petrie is a Sr. Research Associate at the Stanford Center for Design Research. They are collaborating on development of task coordination for distributed design and are involved in several concurrent engineering and agile design and manufacturing projects. DETAILED DESCRIPTION: A course description is available on the World-Wide Web at URL "http://cdr.stanford.edu/html/WICS/course-outline.html". It will also be emailed upon request in reply to this message. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Tuition: Early $1375 Late $1550 (14 day advance) To enroll or ask for information on discounts, parking, housing, etc., please contact: Joleen Barnhill WICS P.O. Box 1238 Magalia, CA 95954-1238 TEL 916/873-0575 FAX 916/873-6697 barnhill@hudson.stanford.edu Enrollment may be made by email or fax. ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ From gdennis@ntu.ac.sg Mon Aug 1 01:36:21 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA13036; Mon, 1 Aug 94 01:36:21 CDT Received: from ntuix.ntu.ac.sg by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA10290; Mon, 1 Aug 94 01:35:53 CDT Received: (from gdennis@localhost) by ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA21015; Mon, 1 Aug 1994 13:40:40 +0800 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 13:40:40 +0800 From: Dennis Sng Message-Id: <199408010540.NAA21015@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> To: Allen Herman , Amy Reinhart , Anil Gupta , Barbara Warthen , Bharat Rao , Bill Baschnagel , Biren Prasad , Can Nguyen , Dan Nichols , Dave Mattox , Dave Tcheng , Derek Hunter , Dick Marleau , Donald Steward , Dorothee Koch , Duvvuru Sriram , Fay Sudweeks , Feniosky Pera-Mora , Francois Vernadat, Harsh Karandikar , Hoda ElMaraghy , J Marty Tenenbaum , Jan Goossenaerts , Jim Davis , Joe Cleetus , John Gero , John R Callahan , John Tanquary , Kankanahalli Srinivas , Kari Alho , Ken MacCallum , Ken Smith , Ken Tarbell , Kish Sharma , Mark Lawley , Martin Hardwick , Marty Lucenti , Mike Case , Mike Silliman , Paul Teicholz , Paulo Silva , Raghu Karinthi , Raj Tolani , Ralph Wood , Ramana Reddy , Ravi Raman , Robert De Graaf , Robert Shank , Stephen Lu , Steven Eppinger , Stuart Madnick , Sudhakar Yerramareddy , Ted Goranson , Thomas Malone , V Jagannathan , Vinod Anupam , all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: CFP: 3rd Intl Conf on Computer Integrated Manufacturing THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (ICCIM '95) in conjunction with the AUTOFACT-ASIA Exhibition CALL FOR PAPERS ICCIM'95, the third biennial conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing organised by GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers will be held at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore during 11-14 July 1995. The conference will be held in conjunction with the AUTOFACT-ASIA exhibition, a counterpart to the established annual AUTOFACT CAD/CAM, CAE & CIM exhibition held in USA. We are inviting papers that deal with both technical developments and industrial applications. Therefore papers are requested for, but not limited to the following categories: - Manufacturing Planning & Control - Advanced Manufacturing Processes - AI in Manufacturing - Product Design - Modelling and Simulation - Total Quality Management - CIM Management - Factory Automation - Computer Aided Inspection & Testing - Applications of CE - 3D CAD, Solid & Surface Modelling - FEM/FEA - Integrating CAD with CAM - Rapid Prototyping Applications - CAD/CAM & CAE systems for the 90's - Parametric & Variational Systems - CAD Data Exchange - PDES/STEP Authors wishing to submit papers should send four copies written in English to: Dr Julian Winsor, Chairman, Technical Committee, ICCIM '95 c/o Conference & Exhibition Management Services Pte Ltd 1 Maritime Square, #09-43, World Trade Centre, Singapore 0409 Tel: (65) 278 8666, Fax: (65) 278 4077, e-mail: julian@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg The author should suggest which of the above categories the paper is suited to. Papers are to be no more than 10 pages in length including an abstract, references and figures. Text must be Times Roman, a minimum of 10 point, with double line spacing. In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit full papers to a special edition published in an international journal. Proposals for workshops, panel discussions and product presentations are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 1ST OCTOBER 1994 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE 15TH DECEMBER 1994 FINAL SUBMISSIONS 15TH MARCH 1995 REGISTRATION FEES Normal Fee: S$1090 (full paying delegates) Special Fee: S$990 (Conference Speakers and non speakers from the following Singapore Government Depts Statutory Boards Institute of Engineers, Singapore Singapore Computer Society SIAA IEEE, Singapore SME, Singapore) Student Fee: $S600 (excludes lunch and proceedings) Early Bird (on or before 31st March 1995) Normal Fee: S$990 (down from S$1090) Special Fee: S$890 (down from S$990) ALL PRICES QUOTED IN SINGAPORE DOLLARS INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Prof L Alting, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Prof M Bonney, University of Nottingham, UK Ms R Connolly, AUTODESK, Singapore Prof L Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Prof Goh T N, National University of Singapore Prof P O'Grady, North Carolina State University, USA Prof J P van Griethuysen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laussane, Switzerland Prof Y Hasegawa, Waseda University, Japan Prof S Hiraki, Hiroshima University, Japan Prof W Hoheisel, Steinbeis-Stiftung Wirtschaftforderung, Germany Prof K Ishii, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Prof B Kaftanoglu, Middle East Technilcal University, Turkey Prof H Katayama, Waseda University, Japan Prof S Kang, Seoul National University, Korea Prof H Katayama, Waseda University, Japan Prof F Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof A Kochhar, UMIST, UK Prof M Kurodo, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Prof W Lewis, University of Melbourne, Australia Prof Li M, University of Science and Technology, China Prof Lim M K, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mr Lin C T, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Prof G Lin, University of South Australia, Australia Prof S C Y Lu, University of Illinois, USA Prof K J MacCallum, University of Strathclyde, UK Prof N Martensson, Chalmers University, Sweden Prof K Mori, Kansai University, Japan Prof A Nee, Nat University of Singapore, Singapore Prof V Orpana, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Prof D Patterson, Institute of Systems Science , Singapore Prof J Peklenik, University of Ljubjana, Slovenia Dr I Persson, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Mr E Quah, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Dr P Ranky, University of East London, UK Prof J Reissner, ETH-Zurich Institut fur Umformtechnik, Switerland Prof P Sackett, Cranfield University, UK Prof H Sato, Chuo University, Japan Prof M Tabucanon, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Prof J Trioleyre, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'arts et Metiers, France Mr Tan A S Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Dr N Varaprasad, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Prof K K Wang, Cornell University, USA Prof H Warnecke, Fraunhofer Inst of Manuf Eng & Automation, Germany Prof R Weston, Loughborough University of Technology, UK Prof D J Williams, Loughborough University of Technology, USA Prof T Woo, University of Michigan, USA Prof B M Worrall, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada Prof M Wozny, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA .............................................................. REPLY SLIP __ I AM SUBMITTING A PAPER __ I AM ATTENDING ICCIM/AUTOFACT-ASIA '95 (Indicate as appropriate) Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms................................................. given name family name Designation .................................................. Organisation ................................................. Address ...................................................... Tel............................. Fax ............................ E-Mail ......................................... Paper Title .................................................. Paper Category ............................................... Signature ................................. Date ............. From alok@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu Tue Aug 2 17:18:21 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15204; Tue, 2 Aug 94 17:18:21 CDT Received: from mentor.cc.purdue.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA04780; Tue, 2 Aug 94 17:18:16 CDT Received: from capital.mgmt.purdue.edu by mentor.cc.purdue.edu (5.61/Purdue_CC) id AA26646; Tue, 2 Aug 94 17:18:12 -0500 Received: from ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu by capital.mgmt.purdue.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA090025952; Tue, 2 Aug 1994 17:19:12 -0500 Received: by ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu with Microsoft Mail id <2E3EE110@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu>; Tue, 02 Aug 94 17:13:04 PDT From: "Chaturvedi, Alok" To: all-iceimt Subject: Conference at PURDUE Date: Mon, 01 Aug 94 11:12:00 PDT Message-Id: <2E3EE110@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu> Encoding: 121 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 ****************************** FREE Conference ****************************************** ********************** Beautiful Midwestern Location ************************************ Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises 1994 Manufacturing Management Conference Emerging Manufacturing Issues: A Vision of World Class Manufacturing in the 21st Century Thursday, September 22, 1994 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Would You Like to Know How do you measure Customer Satisfaction What do you do with Customer Satisfaction measurements How do Customer Satisfaction measurements relate to Re-engineering projects How can you Re-engineer without disrupting current operations Where does Information Technology relate to Re-engineering What are international trade standards and how are they developed What comes after ISO 9000 Overview In the past, the manufacturing function of a company focused on the efficient, low cost production of the company's product. Improvements in manufacturing efficiencies concentrated on labor, materials, and process issues. Today, there are many issues facing manufacturing that had little or no impact on manufacturing decision making as little as five years ago. Issues such as international competition, information technology, quality, the environment, and new organizational structure paradigms are all potential strategic advantage opportunities for companies striving to achieve "World Class Manufacturing" status. The objective of this conference is to highlight these emerging issues and focus on how companies are addressing and capitalizing on them through innovative manufacturing techniques and programs. Who Should Attend This conference is directed at those individuals who are directly involved in the management and strategic planning of manufacturing and service organizations and are looking for some perspective on the manufacturing environment of the future. Proceedings A Proceedings will be published. Conference Fee There is no fee for the conference. However, space constraints limit attendance to 125. Early registration is necessary. Conference Program Thursday September 22, 1994 7:45 a.m. Welcome 8:00 Total Quality Management Revisited "Becoming a Customer-Driven Organization: An Update from the Customer Satisfaction and Total Quality Battlefield" Tom Nelson, Vice President, Client Services Walker Customer Satisfaction Measurements 9:15 Re-engineering and Information Technology "How to Re-engineer Without Destruction, Using Information Technology to Enable the Process" Charlene Adair, Vice President, Rath & Strong 10:30 Break 10:45 Organizational Structures for Competitiveness "Organization Issues for the Millennium" Brian Jellison, President, Von Duprin, Inc. 12:00 p.m. Lunch Lunch Speaker: TQM in a University Setting Ken Burns, Vice President, Business Services, Purdue University 1:30 International Trade Standards "New Developments in International Standards and Global Trade: Implications for U.S. Industry" John Wilson, Senior Staff Officer National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences 3:00 Panel Discussion: Vision for the 21st Century For More Information Tom Brady Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises Krannert School of Management Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 Phone: 317-494-4413 Fax: 317-494-9658 Internet: brady@mgmt.purdue.edu From mklein@atc.boeing.com Wed Aug 3 20:08:58 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA19847; Wed, 3 Aug 94 20:08:58 CDT Received: from atc.boeing.com by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA10227; Wed, 3 Aug 94 20:08:53 CDT Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA06802; Wed, 3 Aug 94 18:09:00 -0700 Received: from by grace.rt.cs.boeing.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AB12931; Wed, 3 Aug 94 18:04:35 PDT Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 18:04:35 PDT Message-Id: <9408040104.AB12931@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com> X-Sender: mklein@grace Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: mklein@atc.einet.net From: mklein@atc.boeing.com Subject: Announcing Availability of Proceedings for the 1994 Distributed AI Workshop This note is to announce availability of copies of the proceedings for the 13th International Distributed AI workshop, which took place last week (July 27-29) in Lake Quinalt WA USA. This annual meeting brings together about 45 of the most prominent researchers in this field from all over the world. A description of the workshop is given below. The proceedings include 18 papers (also listed below) as well as addresses (and in some cases research bios) for all the participants. These papers will not be available through a DAI Workshop special issue or book this year (though some may appear in the upcoming ICMAS conference). Copies of the proceedings will cost around $25 (depending on the demand). If you are interested, please send me an email message with the number of copies you want plus your email and mailing addresses, and I'll get back to you with more details. Regards, Mark Klein DAI-94 Workshop Chair List of Papers -------------- Ishida, Toru Bridging humans via agent networks Ephrati, Eithan A non-manipulable meeting scheduling system Shaw, Dr. Micheal J. Manufacturing information coordination and system integration by a multi-agent framework Sen, Dr. Sandip Adaptive surrogate agents Lander, Susan Information Sharing Among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents in Cooperative Distributed Search Mason, Cindy Lea Introspection as Control in Result-Sharing Assumption-Based Reasoning Agents Huhns, Michael Global Information Management via Local Autonomous Agents Rao, Anand S. Multi-Agent Mental-State Recognition and its Application to Air Combat Modelling Mueller, Joerg Integrating agent interaction into a planner-reactor architecture Velthuijsen, Hugo Application of Distributed AI and Cooperative Problem Solving to Telecommunications Finin, Tim KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange Gmytrasiewicz, Piotr The Utility of Embedded Communications and the Emergence of Protocols Decker, Keith Designing a family of coordination algorithms Lizotte, Sylvain A Relation Graph Formulation for Relationships Among Agents Liu, JyiShane Distributed Problem Solving through Coordination in a Society of Agents Durfee, Dr. Edmund H. Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems: Comparisons and Examples Luo, Magnus Qiangyi Strategies for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems Wooldridge, Michael Formalizing the Cooperative Problem Solving Process Workshop Description -------------------- Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the cooperative solution of problems in multi-agent intelligent systems with both computational and human agents. The central problem in DAI is how to achieve coordinated action among such agents, so that they can accomplish more as a group than individually. The DAI workshop is dedicated to advancing the state of the art in this field. For over a decade now the workshop has gathered a relatively small group of active researchers for intensive discussions on the state of the art as well as fruitful directions for future exploration. Previous DAI Workshops have resulted in nine summaries published in AI Magazine, two volumes of edited papers published by Pitman/Morgan Kaufmann as well as special issues of the journals "Group Decision and Negotiation" and "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics". A wide range of research communities throughout the world are now addressing issues related to DAI. This include work on CKBS (cooperating knowledge-based systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work), ICIS (intelligent cooperating information systems), GDSS (group decision support systems), CE (concurrent engineering), organizational sciences, social psychology, business process management, anthropology and so on. There is also increasing recognition of the need for collaboration support technology in many settings, as evidenced for example by the large international Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) Program which envisages future manufacturing facilities based on globally distributed autonomous and intelligent systems. Such potential application areas pose great challenges for DAI. The goal of the 1994 DAI workshop is therefore "making connections": trying to better understand the connections between DAI and related fields as well as real-world problems. It is hoped that the workshop deliberations will help participants (1) develop a better understanding of the gaps between current theory and potential applications and (2) identify future research directions that integrate multi-disciplinary efforts to address these gaps. Diverse perspectives and approaches are of interest including, but not limited to: "real-world" DAI systems - case studies of implemented practical applications - principles for selecting and applying DAI ideas design of coordination-capable agents - task decomposition (speech act formalisms etc). - distributed reasoning and control - intelligent agents - conflict management/negotiation (game theory etc.) - agent models multi-agent learning - inductive - explanation-based societies of agents - design & behaviour - economic models implementational approaches - languages: object-based concurrent programming languages such as Actors and reflective languages - frameworks: ABE, MACE, AGORA, blackboard systems, distributed search and constraint satisfaction - infrastructures - integration of heterogeneous systems -------------------- For Overnight Delivery (e.g. by Federal Express): Mark Klein, PhD Boeing Computer Services Building 33-08, Mailstop 7L-44 2710 160th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98008 USA For Regular US Mail: Mark Klein, PhD Boeing Computer Services Mailstop 7L-44 PO Box 24346 Seattle WA 98124-0346 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Fri Aug 5 13:08:36 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA14200; Fri, 5 Aug 94 13:08:36 CDT Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA16227; Fri, 5 Aug 94 13:08:32 CDT Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA00846 for all-iceimt@einet.net; Fri, 5 Aug 1994 11:08:31 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 11:08:30 PDT From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: [Timothy Finin : CFP: 1st Int. Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 ] Message-Id: Received: from algol.cs.umbc.edu (algol.cs.umbc.edu [130.85.100.2]) by cdr.stanford.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA11260 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 1994 07:44:26 -0700 Received: by algol.cs.umbc.edu id AA29463 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for kqml-outgoing); Fri, 5 Aug 1994 10:37:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 10:37:11 -0400 From: Timothy Finin Message-Id: <199408051437.AA00936@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> To: kqml@cs.umbc.edu, srkb@cs.umbc.edu, interlingua@isi.edu, agents@aic.lockheed.com Subject: CFP: 1st Int. Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 Sender: owner-kqml@cs.umbc.edu Precedence: bulk CALL FOR PAPERS First International Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 June 12 - 14, 1995 San Francisco, California Multiagent Systems are computational systems in which several semi-autonomous agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfying some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activity on the part of agents having common goals or goals that are distinct, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent computational agents. Research and practice on these systems generally focuses on problem solving, communication, and coordination aspects, as distinct from low-level parallelization or synchronization issues that are more the focus of distributed computing. The design, implementation, and assessment of multiagent systems raises many specific issues. These include how to develop coordination strategies that enable groups of agents to solve problems effectively, negotiation mechanisms that serve to bring a collection of agents to an acceptable state, conflict detection and resolution strategies, protocols by which agents may communicate and reason about inter-agent communications, and mechanisms whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness. Researchers and developers in many areas of the world have contributed to multiagent systems over the last decade. The First International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held in June of 1995 in San Francisco. Organized as a joint effort of the North American Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) community, the Japanese Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing (MACC) community, and the European Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW) community, this conference solicits papers concerning multiagent systems. ICMAS-95 will be a three-day conference combining a strong technical program of submitted papers with plenary sessions that serve to encourage synthesis of ideas from multiple segments of this interdisciplinary area. There will also be tutorials on June 11, the day before the official start of the conference. The program committee wishes to encourage representation of a broad spectrum of perspectives in the conference program. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Agent architectures Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Cooperation, coordination, and conflict Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed artificial intelligence Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Distributed search Evaluation of multi-agent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multi-agent systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing, etc.) Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems Submissions Authors should submit five (5) copies of papers and an email version of the abstract by December 1, 1994 to one of the conference co-chairs. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee and authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its scientific contribution, and the problems, domains, or environments to which it is applicable. Paper Format for Review Submitted papers must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11"or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page must have no more than 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line. (This corresponds to LaTex article style, 12 point.) Each paper should have a single title page which includes a 150-word abstract and up to two topic areas covered by the paper. (These will be used to focus reviewing and ultimately to structure the technical program.) The body of the paper, including all figures, tables, and diagrams but excluding title page and bibliography must be no more than 12 pages in length. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be rejected without review and no electronic submissions will be accepted. General Chair: Victor R. Lesser Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-1322 lesser@cs.umass.edu Program Co-Chairs: North America: Susan E. Conry Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Box 5720 Potsdam, NY 13676-5720 (315) 268-6510 conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Europe: Yves Demazeau Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble cx FRANCE +33 76574654 Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Pacific Rim: Mario Tokoro Keio University / Sony CSL Department of Computer Science 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223 JAPAN +81-45-560-1153 mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Local Arrangements: Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed AI Center o/96-20, B/254F 3251 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 3554-5271 simoudis@aic.lockheed.com Advisory Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Susan E. Conry (USA) Yves Demazeau (France) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Victor Lesser (USA) Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Mario Tokoro (Japan) Program Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Phil Cohen (USA) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Mark Fox (Canada) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Bernardo Huberman (USA) Michael Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Nick Jennings (England) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Christian Lemaitre (Mexico) Frank von Martial (Germany) Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan) Van Parunak (USA) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Katia Sycara (USA) _______________________________________________________________________ Send mail to majordomo@cs.umbc.edu to subscribe/unsubscribe to the kqml mailing list. 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Archives are at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/mail/ ----------------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ From sxp26@psu.edu Fri Aug 12 12:31:50 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07145; Fri, 12 Aug 94 12:31:50 CDT Received: from genesis.ait.psu.edu by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA11700; Fri, 12 Aug 94 12:31:12 CDT Received: from [128.118.40.184] (sppc.arl.psu.edu) by genesis.ait.psu.edu with SMTP id AA29270 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 12 Aug 1994 13:30:46 -0400 X-Nupop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 13:31:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Shashi Phoha" Sender: sxp26@psu.edu Message-Id: <48675.sxp26@email.psu.edu> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Positions available ------------------------------ From: "Shashi Phoha" Thu, 11 Aug 1994 14:51:52 -0500 (EST) To: sxp26@psu.edu Subject: Positions available The Applied Research Laboratory at Peennsylvania State University is seeking applications from qualified applicants to support ongoing research work in Information Systems Department, to develop new research directions and to support the formulation of an academic program in Information Sciences. Corrent work at the Laboratory is focused on enterprise integration for Defense systems, integrated remote diagnostics and distributed interactive simulation for command and control and manufacturing applications. Technical background in wide area networking, discrete event control, database design or information systems architectures for FCIM are relevant. A completed Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering, computer science or related fields is desired. Also specialized backgrounds in information security or emerging information technologies for training systems design are desirable. For more information on these faculty positions please send a copy of your resume to Dr. Shashi Phoha, Information Systems Department , The Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State University, P O Box 30 State College, Pa 16804, telephone 814 863 8005 or fax 814 863 7841. 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Thanks John O'Neill email: jao@itd.dsto.gov.au From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Thu Sep 8 12:26:03 1994 Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA27204; Thu, 8 Sep 94 12:26:03 CDT Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu) by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA10018; Thu, 8 Sep 94 12:25:48 CDT Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA09682; Thu, 8 Sep 94 13:25:46 EDT Return-Path: Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA08070; Thu, 8 Sep 94 12:29:14 EDT From: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu (Enabling Technology Workshop) Message-Id: <9409081629.AA08070@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Call for Papers - WET ICE '95 To: sysinfo@cerc.wvu.edu Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 12:29:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 6226 Sender: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '95 Fourth IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 20-22, 1995 Berkeley Springs, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society, will conduct the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 20-22, 1995, in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Applications of collaborative technologies in * healthcare * software engineering * electronic commerce * etc. Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Mobile computing Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capture of design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks A copy of this Call for Papers can also be found on our World-Wide-Web server at http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE95_cfp.html. Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be currently under submission for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of each author. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or PostScript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript December 16, 1994 Notification of decisions February 15, 1995 Advance Registration March 20, 1995 WORKSHOP April 20-22, 1995 Final version of the paper May 15, 1995 WET ICE '94 Synopsis -------------------- Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multi-media, graphical user-interfaces, and a precipitous drop in the "cost of computing" point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group of members) of a team. The IEEE Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focused precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings is a compendium of 24 scientific papers and three working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Abstracts of the papers are available electronically from IEEE Computer Society's gopher server (gopher info.computer.org; or telnet info.computer.org, login: guest). Copies of the WET ICE '94 proceedings can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States. Copies are $25 for IEEE members and $50 for non-members. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, April 17-19, 1994" when ordering. Proceedings of the Second Workshop are also available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WET ICE '95 General Chair ------------------------------ Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University WET ICE '95 Steering Committee ------------------------------ Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC/West Virginia University Ms. Mary Carriger, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Kankanahalli Srinivas, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University WET ICE '95 Program and Review Committee ---------------------------------------- Chair: Prof. John R. Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI International Prof. Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Prof. Sumit Ghosh, Brown University Mr. Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Dr. Raman Kannan, Monmouth College Mr. Vinay Kumar, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. Jintae Lee, University of Hawaii Dr. John Lewis, GE Corporate Research and Development Dr. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia Prof. James M. Purtilo, University of Maryland - College Park Prof. Alex Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Prof. Ram Duvvuru Sriram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. P. David Stotts, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Prof. George Trapp, West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: John R. Callahan Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 1-304-293-7226 x286 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu From Katia.Sycara@yeti.cimds.ri.cmu.edu Thu Sep 8 16:48:57 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA01086; Thu, 8 Sep 94 16:48:57 CDT Received: from YETI.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA11210; Thu, 8 Sep 94 16:48:53 CDT Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 17:44-EDT From: Katia.Sycara@yeti.cimds.ri.cmu.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CFP for ICMAS conference Message-Id: <779060675/katia@YETI.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU> CALL FOR PAPERS First International Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 June 12 - 14, 1995 San Francisco, California Multiagent Systems are computational systems in which several semi-autonomous agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfying some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activity on the part of agents having common goals or goals that are distinct, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent computational agents. Research and practice on these systems generally focuses on problem solving, communication, and coordination aspects, as distinct from low-level parallelization or synchronization issues that are more the focus of distributed computing. The design, implementation, and assessment of multiagent systems raises many specific issues. These include how to develop coordination strategies that enable groups of agents to solve problems effectively, negotiation mechanisms that serve to bring a collection of agents to an acceptable state, conflict detection and resolution strategies, protocols by which agents may communicate and reason about inter-agent communications, and mechanisms whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness. Researchers and developers in many areas of the world have contributed to multiagent systems over the last decade. The First International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held in June of 1995 in San Francisco. Organized as a joint effort of the North American Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) community, the Japanese Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing (MACC) community, and the European Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW) community, this conference solicits papers concerning multiagent systems. ICMAS-95 will be a three-day conference combining a strong technical program of submitted papers with plenary sessions that serve to encourage synthesis of ideas from multiple segments of this interdisciplinary area. There will also be tutorials presented on June 11, the day before the official start of the conference. The program committee wishes to encourage representation of a broad spectrum of perspectives in the conference program. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Agent architectures Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Believable Agents Cooperation, coordination, and conflict Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed artificial intelligence Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Distributed search Evaluation of multi-agent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multi-agent systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing, IVHS etc.) Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems Submissions Authors should submit five (5) copies of papers and an email version of the abstract by December 1, 1994 to one of the conference co-chairs. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee and authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its scientific contribution, and the problems, domains, or environments to which it is applicable. Paper Format for Review Submitted papers must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11"or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters). Each page must have no more than 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line. (This corresponds to LaTex article style, 12 point.) Each paper should have a single title page which includes a 150-word abstract and up to two topic areas covered by the paper. (These will be used to focus reviewing and ultimately to structure the technical program.) The body of the paper, including all figures, tables, and diagrams but excluding title page and bibliography must be no more than 12 pages in length. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be rejected without review and no electronic submissions will be accepted. Up-to-date Information A Mosaic page (http://ICMAS.cs.umass.edu/ICMAS) can be accessed for the most update information on the conference including as it becomes available information on hotel and travel arrangements, tutorials and the technical program. Hotel Arrangements The conference will be held at San Francisco Hilton and Towers (415-771-1400 or 800-HILTONS). There are a block of rooms set aside for conference participants at a special convention rate till May 11,1995. Reservations received after this date will be accepted based on availability. Please indicate when you are making room arrangements that you will be attending the International Conference on Multiagent Systems in order to get the convention rate. General Chair: Victor R. Lesser Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-1322 lesser@cs.umass.edu Program Co-Chairs: North America: Susan E. Conry Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Box 5720 Potsdam, NY 13676-5720 (315) 268-6510 conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Europe: Yves Demazeau Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble cx FRANCE +33 76574654 Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Pacific Rim: Mario Tokoro Keio University / Sony CSL Department of Computer Science 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223 JAPAN +81-45-560-1153 mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Local Arrangements: Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed AI Center o/96-20, B/254F 3251 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 3554-5271 simoudis@aic.lockheed.com Advisory Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Susan E. Conry (USA) Yves Demazeau (France) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Victor Lesser (USA) Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Mario Tokoro (Japan) Program Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Phil Cohen (USA) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Mark Fox (Canada) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Bernardo Huberman (USA) Michael Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Nick Jennings (England) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Christian Lemaitre (Mexico) Frank von Martial (Germany) Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan) Van Parunak (USA) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Katia Sycara (USA) From bernus@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au Fri Sep 9 02:26:52 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA14142; Fri, 9 Sep 94 02:26:52 CDT Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA13335; Fri, 9 Sep 94 02:26:48 CDT Received: by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au id AA07504 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for all-iceimt@einet.net); Fri, 9 Sep 1994 17:28:14 +1000 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 17:28:14 +1000 From: Peter Bernus Message-Id: <199409090728.AA07504@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Enterprise Integration Jobs ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION 3 positions in Computer Science Division of Manufacturing Technology, Preston, VIC, Australia The Division is establishin a project which aims to work closely with Australian and international companies to provide appropriate methodologies for the companies to integrate their business and technology. We are seeking three motivated engineers/scientists, including a Project Leader, to participate in this multi-skilled project team. Engineer/Manager (Ref M036) $59-66k Salary + Superannuation You will manage the Enterprise Integration project, including supervising project staff and managing resources. You will have a PhD in Computer Integrated Manufacturing or Computer Science, or equivalent skills and knowledge, and you will have had extensive experience in advanced manufacturing. You will also have a demonstrated ability to lead industry related projects and make sound management decisions in a dynamic research environment. Research Scientist (Ref M037) $43-48k Salary + Superannuation As a member of the Enterprise Integration project, you will also have a PhD in Computer Integrated Manufacturing or Computer Science. You will have some experience in advanced manufacturing and will have a demonstrated ability to participate in industry related projects, including excellent communication and liaison skills. Computer Scientist (Ref M038) $28-42k Salary + Superannuation You will have a degree in Computer Science or Computer Integrated Manufacturing to enable you to undertake computer modelling. You will also have knowledge of computer integration and excellent communication skills. Familiarity with CIM-OSA, Purdue or GIM reference architectures and with enterprise modelling research would be an advantage for all three positions. Dr Laszlo Nemes (tel 03 662 7707, fax 03 662 7851) can provide additional information. Ms Rita Wurlod (tel 03 662 7700) can provide copies of the job description and selection criteria. Please obtain these before applying. Applications, quoting the relevant Reference Number and addressing the selection criteria, should reach The Deputy Chief, CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Locked Bag No 9, Preston VIC 3072 Australia by 23 September 1994. From bernus@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au Tue Sep 13 01:25:06 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA29608; Tue, 13 Sep 94 01:25:06 CDT Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25396; Tue, 13 Sep 94 01:24:58 CDT Received: by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au id AA18774 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for all-iceimt@einet.net); Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:26:21 +1000 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:26:21 +1000 From: Peter Bernus Message-Id: <199409130626.AA18774@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: More detaill on Enterprise Integration Jobs (see detailed job descriptions, selection criteria and competency statements at the end) ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION 3 positions in Computer Science Division of Manufacturing Technology, Preston, VIC, Australia The Division is establishin a project which aims to work closely with Australian and international companies to provide appropriate methodologies for the companies to integrate their business and technology. We are seeking three motivated engineers/scientists, including a Project Leader, to participate in this multi-skilled project team. Engineer/Manager (Ref M036) $59-66k Salary + Superannuation You will manage the Enterprise Integration project, including supervising project staff and managing resources. You will have a PhD in Computer Integrated Manufacturing or Computer Science, or equivalent skills and knowledge, and you will have had extensive experience in advanced manufacturing. You will also have a demonstrated ability to lead industry related projects and make sound management decisions in a dynamic research environment. Research Scientist (Ref M037) $43-48k Salary + Superannuation As a member of the Enterprise Integration project, you will also have a PhD in Computer Integrated Manufacturing or Computer Science. You will have some experience in advanced manufacturing and will have a demonstrated ability to participate in industry related projects, including excellent communication and liaison skills. Computer Scientist (Ref M038) $28-42k Salary + Superannuation You will have a degree in Computer Science or Computer Integrated Manufacturing to enable you to undertake computer modelling. You will also have knowledge of computer integration and excellent communication skills. Familiarity with CIM-OSA, Purdue or GIM reference architectures and with enterprise modelling research would be an advantage for all three positions. Dr Laszlo Nemes (tel +61-3-662 7707, fax +61-3-662 7851) can provide additional information. Ms Rita Wurlod (tel 03 662 7700) can provide copies of the job description and selection criteria. Please obtain these before applying. (lnm@mlb.dmt.csiro.au) Applications, quoting the relevant Reference Number and addressing the selection criteria, should reach The Deputy Chief, CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Locked Bag No 9, Preston VIC 3072 Australia by 23 September 1994. ----- JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title: Engineer/Manager Location: Preston, Vic. Project: Enterprise Integration Position Number: M036 Classification: CSOF 7 Supervisor: Dr L. Nemes The Project and its Objectives: Division of Manufacturing Technology has been working with international partners in developing architectures for enterprise integration. The aim is to provide appropriate methodologies for Australian companies to integrate their business and technology. Job Statement: Manage the Enterprise Integration project in the Division. Develop industrial applications for the methodologies. Work Activities and Areas of Responsibilities: 1. Leadership of the research project in Enterprise Integration 2. Development of collaborative industry projects. 3. Supervision of the application of result on industrial sites. 4. Supervision of project staff and management of resources. Other: This is an indefinite appointment with a 12 month probation period. _____________________________________________________________________________ SELECTION CRITERIA AND COMPETENCY STATEMENTS Job Title: Engineer/Manager Position Number: M036 Classification: CSOF 7 Functional Area: Research Engineer/Scientist Essential: 1. A PhD in Computer Integrated Manufacturing or in Computer Science or equivalent skills and knowledge. 2. Extensive experience in advanced manufacturing. 3. Able to demonstrate advanced professional knowledge in computer integration. 4. Demonstrated ability to lead industry related research projects. 5. Demonstrated ability to lead a multi skilled research group which will include manufacturing engineers, computer scientists and production engineers. 6. Excellent ability in both written and verbal communication including well developed negotiations and liaison skills. 7. Demonstrated ability to make sound management decisions in a dynamic research environment in accordance with the Organisational abilities. Desirable: 1. Familiarity with CIM-OSA, Purdue, GIM reference architectures 2. Familiarity with enterprise modelling research 3. Familiarity with modelling and CASE tools 4. Familiarity with integration tools (communication, databases, distributed process, groupware, EDI) 5. Experience in system design methodologies 6. Experience in developing large integrated system. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------ JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title: Research Scientist Location: Preston, Vic Project: Enterprise Integration Position Number: M037 Classification: CSOF 5 Supervisor: Dr L. Nemes The Project Objectives: Division of Manufacturing Technology has been working with international its partners in developing architectures for enterprise integration. The aim is to provide appropriate methodologies for Australian companies to integrate their business and technology. Job Statement: Participate in the Enterprise Integration research team of the Division. Participate in the industrial applications of the integration methodologies. Work Activities and Responsibilities: 1. Participation in the research project in Enterprise Integration and Areas of 2. Work in the collaborative industry projects 3. Partake applications of results on industrial sites. Other: This is a three year appointment with a 12 month probation period - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------ SELECTION CRITERIA AND COMPETENCY STATEMENTS Job Title: Research Scientist Location: Preston, Vic Project: Enterprise Integration Position Number: M037 Classification: CSOF 5 Functional Area: Research Engineer/Scientist Essential: 1. A PhD in Computer Integrated Manufacturing, or in Computer Science or equivalent skills and knowledge 2. Demonstrated experience in advanced manufacturing 3. Able to demonstrate advanced professional knowledge in computer integration 4. Demonstrated ability to participate in industry related research projects 5. Demonstrate ability to participate in a multi skilled research group which will include manufacturing engineers, computer scientist, and production engineers 6. Demonstrated ability to adapt to rapid change in work demands 7. Excellent ability in both written and verbal communication including well developed negotiations and liaison skills. Desirable: 1. Familiarity with CIM-OSA, Purdue, GIM reference architectures 2. Familiarity with enterprise modelling research 3. Familiarity with modelling and CASE tools 4. Experience in system design methodologies 5. Experience in developing integrated systems 6. Familiarity with integration tools (communications, groupware, databases, distributed processing, EDI). - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------ JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title: Computer Scientist Location: Preston, Vic Project: Enterprise Integration Position Number: M038 Classification: CSOF 3-4 Supervisor: Dr L. Nemes The Project and its Objectives: Division of Manufacturing Technology has been working with international partners in developing architectures for enterprise integration. The aim is to provide appropriate methodologies for Australian companies to integrate their business and technology. Job Statement: Participate in the Enterprise Integration research team of the Division. Participate in the industrial applications of the integration methodologies. Work Activities and Responsibilities: 1. Participation in the research project in Enterprise Integration and Areas of 2. Undertake computer modelling in line with project objectives 3. Work in the collaborative industry projects 4. Partake applications of results on industrial sites Other: This is a three year appointment with a 12 month probation period. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------- SELECTION CRITERIA AND COMPETENCY STATEMENTS Job Title: Computer Scientist Position Number: M038 Classification: CSOF 3-4 Functional Area: Research Projects Essential: 1. A degree in Computer Science or in Computer Integrated Manufacturing or equivalent skills and knowledge 2. Able to demonstrate enhanced professional knowledge in computer integration 3. Ability to participate in industry related projects 4. Ability to participate in multi skilled research group which will include manufacturing engineers, computer scientist, production engineers. 5. Ability to adapt to rapid change in work demands and a collaborative environment. 6. Excellent ability in both written and verbal communication skills. Desirable: 1. Familiarity with CIM-OA, Purdue, GIM reference architectures 2. Familiarity with enterprise modelling research 3. Familiarity with modelling and CASE tools 4. Experience in system design methodologies 5. Familiarity with integration tools (communications, databases, distributed processing, groupware, EDI) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------- From Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Tue Sep 13 08:28:32 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA21695; Tue, 13 Sep 94 08:28:32 CDT Received: from imag.imag.fr by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA25941; Tue, 13 Sep 94 08:28:29 CDT Received: from isis.imag.fr by imag.imag.fr with SMTP id AA11052 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:24:23 +0200 Received: from [129.88.39.228] (mac_sympa-8.imag.fr) by isis.imag.fr with SMTP id AA10777 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:29:18 +0200 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:29:18 +0200 Message-Id: <199409131329.AA10777@isis.imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Subject: CIMOSA Association Newsletter For bulk distribution CIMOSA Association: Message from K. Kosanke and M. Zelm -------------------------------------------------------- Vol. 1/1 date 94-08-01 CIMOSA - News Editor: M. Zelm, Gehenb|hlstr. 18A, D-70499 Stuttgart/Germany Announcement: This is the first issue of the CIMOSA - News published by the CIMOSA Association. The CIMOSA News will report on CIMOSA applications, evolution of its technical specification, standardisation, advancements in standardisation and related items. Contributions from other parties are welcome. The CIMOSA - News will be printed periodically and will be distributed to all parties interested in CIMOSA. CIMOSA Applications In addition to the applications demonstrated by the ESPRIT Consortium AMICE at its final Workshop in Aachen (94-02-09) several applications have been demonstrated by external parties (see also Press Release ESPRIT Consortium AMICE). The work done by FIAT has led to further CIMOSA adaptation of the ARTIFEX tool by the ARTIS company. Model documentation is supported now via CIMOSA templates. At a Workshop held by the LeanCIMOSA Initiative at Frankfurt (94-03-11) the Engineering School of Offenburg presented an industrial application of CIMOSA for SME's. The application is concerned with the management of a flexible machining center and the model is implemented on PC under Windows. The announcement of the CIMOSA GmbH emphasised the intention on product developments. Furthermore CIMOSA Exploitation Services are offered for end-users and implementors including a detailed information package on CIMOSA. CIMOSA Technical Specifications The AMICE Formal Reference Base (FRB) which has been updated and extended during the last contract of the ESPRIT Consortium AMICE is currently being edited for publication and will become available as the new version of the CIMOSA Technical Baseline in October 1994. Beside a restructuring of its modelling constructs into business and IT oriented ones, the update completes the sets of constructs for the requirements definition and design specification modelling levels and defines the initial set for the implementation description modelling level as well. More emphasis is placed on the relation to object oriented modelling providing reuse of building blocks throughout the modelling life cycle. CIMOSA in Standardisation ISO TC 184/SC5/WG1 has completed its Committee Draft (CD) on the Framework for Enterprise Modelling. This CD is currently submitted for ballot to member countries. The ballot results will determine the future of the ENV 40 003 which is based on CIMOSA which will either be replaced or amended accordingly. Work on modelling constructs is currently pursued in Europe by CEN/TC 310/WG1. This work has also led to efforts for harmonisation of two of the inputs to the standardisation work: CIMOSA and the German DIN supported IEM (Integrated Enterprise Modelling).CEN/TC 310/WG1 has published two technical reports on EMEIS (Enterprise Model Execution and Integration Services). One report is an evaluation of state-of-the-art, the other is a statement of requirements for EMEIS. Both reports reference the CIMOSA Integrating Infrastructure. Harmonisation of efforts in enterprise integration support is also the work done in the IFAC/IFIP Task Force led by the Purdue University. With emphasis on the distinction between methodology (Purdue Reference Architecture and GRAI) and language (CIMOSA) and tools this work also contributes to the convergence of efforts in enterprise integration and enterprise engineering. Events 94-09-21 - CIMOSA Association; Workshop: Business Re-engineering; WZL/ADITEC, Aachen/Germany. 94-10-09 - EU/EC - CIM Europe; CIM Europe Conference; Copenhagen/Denmark 94-11-09 - CIMOSA Association; Workshop: Modelling and Simulation Tools; WZL/ADITEC, Aachen/Germany. 94-12-12/15 - INRIA; IMSE'94 - European Workshop on Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering; Grenoble/France 95-tbd - CIMOSA Association; Workshops to be held at WZL/ADITEC, Aachen /Germany: - Concurrent Engineering - Integrated Quality Strategies - Virtual Enterprise - Design Oriented Costing The CIMOSA Association workshops address different topics all related to enterprise integration. The workshops are aimed at people involved in enterprise operation as well as in related research. Focus is on enterprise engineering; i.e. on enterprise modelling and its use in decision support for strategic, tactical and operational planning. All workshops highlight the applicability of CIMOSA as the major new development in enterprise integration, but will present other papers related to the particular topic as well. Working groups will provide the opportunity to further discuss the subject and the papers presented. CIMOSA Association Workshops are supported by the European Commission through its Programme on Accompanying Measures CIMOSA Literature and new Publications CIMOSA - Open System Architecture for CIM; ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, Springer-Verlag 1993, (ISBN 3-540-56256-7), (ISBN 0-387-56256-7) CIMOSA - Open System Architecture for CIM, Technical Baseline; ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, private publication February 1993 CIMOSA Association The CIMOSA Association is involved in promotion of CIMOSA, its active support in national, European and international standardisation and in consolidation of the evolution of its technical specification - the CIMOSA Technical Baseline. The CIMOSA Association acts as a focal point for all parties involved in applying CIMOSA in industrial and research environments. It supports these efforts through expert service for clarifications on the CIMOSA technical specifications and by providing opportunities for presenting results to interested Workshop audiences and through general publications on CIMOSA applications.CIMOSA information dissemination will be carried out through workshops, seminars and conferences organised either by the Association it self or in collaboration with other organisations. These events will also provide feedback on user needs and will thereby support the evolution of the CIMOSA technical specifications as well. Members of the CIMOSA Association are industrial and research organisations involved in exploitation ofCIMOSA or interested in the subject of enterprise integration. Membership is open to any organisation interested in supporting enterprise integration and CIMOSA. Personal membership is welcome as well. Proformas for membership application may be obtained on request. The CIMOSA Association is a non-profit organisation registered at the court of Aachen and is mainly supported by membership fee (Fee for Organisations: ECU 1.000 per year). For additional Information please contact: K. Kosanke, Stockholmer Str. 7 D-71034 Boeblingen/Germany Phone: (49) 7031 27 76 65 FAX: (49) 7031 27 66 98 e-mail: Kosanke@IPA.FHG.de ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________ From gdennis@ntu.ac.sg Sun Oct 2 23:19:40 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA23641; Sun, 2 Oct 94 23:19:40 CDT Received: from ntuix.ntu.ac.sg by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA16671; Sun, 2 Oct 94 23:18:18 CDT Received: (from gdennis@localhost) by ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA17545; Mon, 3 Oct 1994 11:35:15 +0800 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 11:35:15 +0800 From: Dennis Sng Message-Id: <199410030335.LAA17545@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> To: Allen Herman , Amy Reinhart , Anil Gupta , Barbara Warthen , Bharat Rao , Bill Baschnagel , Biren Prasad , Can Nguyen , Dan Nichols , Dave Mattox , Dave Tcheng , Derek Hunter , Dick Marleau , Donald Steward , Dorothee Koch , Duvvuru Sriram , Fay Sudweeks , Feniosky Pera-Mora , Francois Vernadat, Frank-Lothar Krause , Harsh Karandikar , Hoda ElMaraghy , J Marty Tenenbaum , Jan Goossenaerts , Jim Davis , Joe Cleetus , John Gero , John R Callahan , John Tanquary , Jose Encarnacao , Kankanahalli Srinivas , Kari Alho , Ken MacCallum , Ken Smith , Ken Tarbell , Kish Sharma , Mark Klein , Mark Lawley , Martin Hardwick , Marty Lucenti , Mike Case , Mike Silliman , Paul Teicholz , Paulo Silva , Raghu Karinthi , Raj Tolani , Ralph Wood , Ramana Reddy , Ravi Raman , Robert De Graaf , Robert Shank , Stephen Lu , Steven Eppinger , Stuart Madnick , Sudhakar Yerramareddy , Ted Goranson , Theodore J Wilson , Thomas Malone , V Jagannathan , Vinod Anupam , Waguih ElMaraghy , all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: CFP: ICCIM/AutoFact-Asia '95 Cc: julian@v9001.ntu.ac.sg THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (ICCIM '95) in conjunction with the AUTOFACT-ASIA Exhibition CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline ICCIM'95, the third biennial conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing organised by GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, USA, will be held at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore during 11-14 July 1995. ICCIM'95 will be held in conjunction with the AUTOFACT-ASIA exhibition for CAD/CAM, CAE and CIM. More than 60% of the exhibitors will be from Europe and North America. Already IBM, DEC, HP, Silicon Graphics, Autodesk, EDS and many others have aggreed to appear. It will be the first time an exhibition in East Asia has managed to get all these names under one roof. The conference committees are planning that ICCIM'95 will complement the exhibitions with a very strong programme. A number of exciting events have been added to the conference programme. These include the opening speech by Gus Olling, (SME President and Chrysler's Director for CAD/CAM). In addition most of the biggest CAD/CAM companies will be sending their technical gurus to make presentations and it is expected that some large multinationals will also be sending senior management to make presentations as well. We are inviting papers that deal with both technical developments and industrial applications. Therefore papers are requested for, but not limited to the following categories: - Manufacturing Planning & Control - Advanced Manufacturing Processes - AI in Manufacturing - Product Design - Modelling and Simulation - Total Quality Management - CIM Management - Factory Automation - Computer Aided Inspection & Testing - Applications of Concurrent Engineering - 3D CAD, Solid & Surface Modelling - FEM/FEA - Integrating CAD with CAM - Rapid Prototyping Applications - CAD/CAM & CAE systems for the 90's - Parametric & Variational Systems - CAD Data Exchange - STEP Authors wishing to submit papers should send four copies written in English to: Dr Julian Winsor, Chairman, Technical Committee, ICCIM '95 c/o Conference & Exhibition Management Services Pte Ltd 1 Maritime Square, #09-43, World Trade Centre, Singapore 0409 Tel: (65) 278 8666, Fax: (65) 278 4077, e-mail: julian@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg The author should suggest which of the above categories the paper is suited to. Papers are to be no more than 10 pages in length including an abstract, references and figures. Text must be Times Roman, a minimum of 10 point, with double line spacing. In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit full papers to a special edition published in an international journal. Proposals for workshops, panel discussions and product presentations are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS 1ST NOVEMBER 1994 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE 1ST JANUARY 1994 FINAL SUBMISSIONS 15TH MARCH 1995 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Prof L Alting, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Prof M Bonney, University of Nottingham, UK Ms R Connolly, AUTODESK, Singapore Prof L Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Prof Goh T N, National University of Singapore Prof P O'Grady, North Carolina State University, USA Prof J P van Griethuysen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laussane, Switzerland Prof Y Hasegawa, Waseda University, Japan Prof S Hiraki, Hiroshima University, Japan Prof W Hoheisel, Steinbeis-Stiftung Wirtschaftforderung, Germany Prof K Ishii, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Prof B Kaftanoglu, Middle East Technilcal University, Turkey Prof H Katayama, Waseda University, Japan Prof S Kang, Seoul National University, Korea Prof H Katayama, Waseda University, Japan Prof F Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof A Kochhar, UMIST, UK Prof M Kurodo, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Prof W Lewis, University of Melbourne, Australia Prof Li M, University of Science and Technology, China Prof Lim M K, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mr Lin C T, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Prof G Lin, University of South Australia, Australia Prof S C Y Lu, University of Illinois, USA Prof K J MacCallum, University of Strathclyde, UK Prof N Martensson, Chalmers University, Sweden Prof K Mori, Kansai University, Japan Prof A Nee, Nat University of Singapore, Singapore Prof V Orpana, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Prof D Patterson, Institute of Systems Science , Singapore Prof J Peklenik, University of Ljubjana, Slovenia Dr I Persson, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Mr E Quah, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Dr P Ranky, University of East London, UK Prof J Reissner, ETH-Zurich Institut fur Umformtechnik, Switerland Prof P Sackett, Cranfield University, UK Prof H Sato, Chuo University, Japan Prof M Tabucanon, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Prof J Trioleyre, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'arts et Metiers, France Mr Tan A S Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Dr N Varaprasad, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Prof K K Wang, Cornell University, USA Prof H Warnecke, Fraunhofer Inst of Manuf Eng & Automation, Germany Prof R Weston, Loughborough University of Technology, UK Prof D J Williams, Loughborough University of Technology, USA Prof T Woo, University of Michigan, USA Prof B M Worrall, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada Prof M Wozny, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA .............................................................. REPLY SLIP __ I AM SUBMITTING A PAPER __ I AM ATTENDING ICCIM/AUTOFACT-ASIA '95 (Indicate as appropriate) Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms................................................. given name family name Designation .................................................. Organisation ................................................. Address ...................................................... Tel............................. Fax ............................ E-Mail ......................................... Paper Title .................................................. Paper Category ............................................... Signature ................................. Date ............. From gdennis@ntu.ac.sg Mon Oct 3 05:48:05 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA23418; Mon, 3 Oct 94 05:48:05 CDT Received: from ntuix.ntu.ac.sg by einet.net (4.1/einet_921218_14:59) id AA17506; Mon, 3 Oct 94 05:46:58 CDT Received: (from gdennis@localhost) by ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA09692; Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:30:09 +0800 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:30:09 +0800 From: Dennis Sng Message-Id: <199410030930.RAA09692@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> To: Allen Herman , Amy Reinhart , Anil Gupta , Barbara Warthen , Bharat Rao , Bill Baschnagel , Biren Prasad , Can Nguyen , Dan Nichols , Dave Mattox , Dave Tcheng , Derek Hunter , Dick Marleau , Donald Steward , Dorothee Koch , Duvvuru Sriram , Fay Sudweeks , Feniosky Pera-Mora , Francois Vernadat , Frank-Lothar Krause , Harsh Karandikar , Hoda ElMaraghy , J Marty Tenenbaum , Jan Goossenaerts , Jim Davis , Joe Cleetus , John Gero , John R Callahan , John Tanquary , Jose Encarnacao , Kankanahalli Srinivas , Kari Alho , Ken MacCallum , Ken Smith , Ken Tarbell , Kish Sharma , Mark Klein , Mark Lawley , Martin Hardwick , Marty Lucenti , Mike Case , Mike Silliman , Paul Teicholz , Paulo Silva , Raghu Karinthi , Raj Tolani , Ralph Wood , Ramana Reddy , Ravi Raman , Robert De Graaf , Robert Shank , Stephen Lu , Steven Eppinger , Stuart Madnick , Sudhakar Yerramareddy , Ted Goranson , Theodore J Wilson , Thomas Malone , V Jagannathan , Vinod Anupam , Waguih ElMaraghy , all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net Subject: CFP: ICCIM/AutoFact-Asia '95 This seemed to bounce the first time I sent it, so I'm re-sending again. Apologies if it is a repeat message. Dennis. =========== THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (ICCIM '95) in conjunction with the AUTOFACT-ASIA Exhibition CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline ICCIM'95, the third biennial conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing organised by GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, USA, will be held at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore during 11-14 July 1995. ICCIM'95 will be held in conjunction with the AUTOFACT-ASIA exhibition for CAD/CAM, CAE and CIM. More than 60% of the exhibitors will be from Europe and North America. Already IBM, DEC, HP, Silicon Graphics, Autodesk, EDS and many others have aggreed to appear. It will be the first time an exhibition in East Asia has managed to get all these names under one roof. The conference committees are planning that ICCIM'95 will complement the exhibitions with a very strong programme. A number of exciting events have been added to the conference programme. These include the opening speech by Gus Olling, (SME President and Chrysler's Director for CAD/CAM). In addition most of the biggest CAD/CAM companies will be sending their technical gurus to make presentations and it is expected that some large multinationals will also be sending senior management to make presentations as well. We are inviting papers that deal with both technical developments and industrial applications. Therefore papers are requested for, but not limited to the following categories: - Manufacturing Planning & Control - Advanced Manufacturing Processes - AI in Manufacturing - Product Design - Modelling and Simulation - Total Quality Management - CIM Management - Factory Automation - Computer Aided Inspection & Testing - Applications of Concurrent Engineering - 3D CAD, Solid & Surface Modelling - FEM/FEA - Integrating CAD with CAM - Rapid Prototyping Applications - CAD/CAM & CAE systems for the 90's - Parametric & Variational Systems - CAD Data Exchange - STEP Authors wishing to submit papers should send four copies written in English to: Dr Julian Winsor, Chairman, Technical Committee, ICCIM '95 c/o Conference & Exhibition Management Services Pte Ltd 1 Maritime Square, #09-43, World Trade Centre, Singapore 0409 Tel: (65) 278 8666, Fax: (65) 278 4077, e-mail: julian@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg The author should suggest which of the above categories the paper is suited to. Papers are to be no more than 10 pages in length including an abstract, references and figures. Text must be Times Roman, a minimum of 10 point, with double line spacing. In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit full papers to a special edition published in an international journal. Proposals for workshops, panel discussions and product presentations are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS 1ST NOVEMBER 1994 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE 1ST JANUARY 1994 FINAL SUBMISSIONS 15TH MARCH 1995 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Prof L Alting, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Prof M Bonney, University of Nottingham, UK Ms R Connolly, AUTODESK, Singapore Prof L Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Prof Goh T N, National University of Singapore Prof P O'Grady, North Carolina State University, USA Prof J P van Griethuysen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laussane, Switzerland Prof Y Hasegawa, Waseda University, Japan Prof S Hiraki, Hiroshima University, Japan Prof W Hoheisel, Steinbeis-Stiftung Wirtschaftforderung, Germany Prof K Ishii, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Prof B Kaftanoglu, Middle East Technilcal University, Turkey Prof H Katayama, Waseda University, Japan Prof S Kang, Seoul National University, Korea Prof H Katayama, Waseda University, Japan Prof F Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof A Kochhar, UMIST, UK Prof M Kurodo, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Prof W Lewis, University of Melbourne, Australia Prof Li M, University of Science and Technology, China Prof Lim M K, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mr Lin C T, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Prof G Lin, University of South Australia, Australia Prof S C Y Lu, University of Illinois, USA Prof K J MacCallum, University of Strathclyde, UK Prof N Martensson, Chalmers University, Sweden Prof K Mori, Kansai University, Japan Prof A Nee, Nat University of Singapore, Singapore Prof V Orpana, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Prof D Patterson, Institute of Systems Science , Singapore Prof J Peklenik, University of Ljubjana, Slovenia Dr I Persson, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Mr E Quah, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Dr P Ranky, University of East London, UK Prof J Reissner, ETH-Zurich Institut fur Umformtechnik, Switerland Prof P Sackett, Cranfield University, UK Prof H Sato, Chuo University, Japan Prof M Tabucanon, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Prof J Trioleyre, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'arts et Metiers, France Mr Tan A S Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Dr N Varaprasad, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Prof K K Wang, Cornell University, USA Prof H Warnecke, Fraunhofer Inst of Manuf Eng & Automation, Germany Prof R Weston, Loughborough University of Technology, UK Prof D J Williams, Loughborough University of Technology, USA Prof T Woo, University of Michigan, USA Prof B M Worrall, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada Prof M Wozny, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA .............................................................. REPLY SLIP __ I AM SUBMITTING A PAPER __ I AM ATTENDING ICCIM/AUTOFACT-ASIA '95 (Indicate as appropriate) Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms................................................. given name family name Designation .................................................. Organisation ................................................. Address ...................................................... Tel............................. Fax ............................ E-Mail ......................................... Paper Title .................................................. Paper Category ............................................... Signature ................................. Date ............. From gasser@morue.usc.edu Wed Oct 5 16:54:58 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA00672; Wed, 5 Oct 94 16:54:58 CDT Received: from usc.edu (usc.edu [128.125.253.136]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA10853 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 1994 16:49:30 -0500 Received: from morue.usc.edu by usc.edu (4.1/SMI-3.0DEV3-USC+3.1) id AA23985; Wed, 5 Oct 94 14:49:11 PDT Received: (gasser@localhost) by morue.usc.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.7+ucs) id OAA09359; Wed, 5 Oct 1994 14:49:09 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 14:49:09 -0700 From: Les Gasser Message-Id: <199410052149.OAA09359@morue.usc.edu> To: bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, all-iceimt@einet.net, d.viehland@massey.ac.nz, OMT@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu, ai-ers@isi.edu Cc: gasser@usc.edu Subject: ICMAS-95 CFP: INVITED TALK, PANEL, AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Reply-To: gasser@usc.edu **************************************************************** **************************************************************** FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS - ICMAS '95 CALL FOR PRELIMINARY INVITED TALK, PANEL, AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS **************************************************************** **************************************************************** The 1995 International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-95) will be held June 12-14, 1995 at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel (see the Mosaic page http://ICMAS.cs.umass.edu/ICMAS for details). A cohesive, innovative collection of invited talks, panels, and tutorials is planned for the conference. We solicit preliminary proposals and suggestions for invited talks, panels, and tutorials related to the subjects of the conference, including (but not limited to) the following topics or combinations thereof: Agent architectures Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Believable Agents Cooperation, coordination, and conflict Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed artificial intelligence Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Distributed search Evaluation of multi-agent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multi-agent systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing, IVHS etc.) Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems If you have suggestions or preliminary proposals for an invited talk, panel or tutorial, please submit the following information to Les Gasser, the ICMAS Tutorials Chair, by 15 November, 1994: The proposed subject of the talk, panel, or tutorial The proposed speaker, panel leader/participants, or tutorial presenter(s) (with full contact information). A brief statement of why you believe a talk, panel, or tutorial on this subject would be relevant and interesting to the MAS conference attendees, Our aim is to get the maximum input from the MAS community at large in formulating the program of ICMAS-95. Hence we're interested in your ideas and suggestions for talks, panels, and tutorials you'd like to see at ICMAS-95, or in which you'd like to participate. Full proposal solicitations on selected topics will come later. TUTORIALS CHAIR: Les Gasser Computational Organization Design Lab Institute of Safety and Systems Management USC 927 West 35th Place Los Angeles, CA 90089-0021 USA Voice: 213.740.4046 Fax: 213.740.9732 Internet: gasser@usc.edu ================================================================ ICMAS-95 General Chair: Victor R. Lesser Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-1322 lesser@cs.umass.edu Program Co-Chairs: North America: Susan E. Conry Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Box 5720 Potsdam, NY 13676-5720 (315) 268-6510 conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Europe: Yves Demazeau Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble cx FRANCE +33 76574654 Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Pacific Rim: Mario Tokoro Keio University / Sony CSL Department of Computer Science 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223 JAPAN +81-45-560-1153 mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Local Arrangements: Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed AI Center o/96-20, B/254F 3251 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 3554-5271 simoudis@aic.lockheed.com Advisory Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Susan E. Conry (USA) Yves Demazeau (France) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Victor Lesser (USA) Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Mario Tokoro (Japan) Program Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Phil Cohen (USA) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Mark Fox (Canada) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Bernardo Huberman (USA) Michael Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Nick Jennings (England) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Christian Lemaitre (Mexico) Frank von Martial (Germany) Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan) Van Parunak (USA) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Katia Sycara (USA) From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Mon Oct 17 11:06:31 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA16398; Mon, 17 Oct 94 11:06:31 CDT Received: from CMSA.gmr.com (cmsa.gmr.com [129.124.64.32]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA07967 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 1994 11:06:26 -0500 From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Message-Id: <199410171606.LAA07967@einet.net> Received: from GMRCMSA by CMSA.gmr.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6417; Mon, 17 Oct 94 12:05:10 EDT Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 12:05:10 EDT To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CERA Journal Update FROM: BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. Concurrent Engineering TEL: (810) 696-5487 (8-366);FAX: 661-8333 Subject: CERA Journal Update Subject: CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) -- International Journal -- An Update Dear Fellow Researcher: We are pleased to inform you that CERA is now entering third year of its publication. In 1992, Academic Press in collaboration with CERA Institute of International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE) launched this International Journal. CERA is a refereed archival quality publica- tion. This journal fills a void for a very important and timely sub- ject matter. "Concurrent Engineering" has been recognized for some time to be a major force behind achieving international competitive- ness, responsiveness and improving productivity. If you have worked in this area, we would like to seek your inputs in making this endeavor a success. We take this opportunity to ask you to submit your original contri- bution to CERA for possible publication. Please inform your friends and colleagues or write to me, who can contribute. A "Call for Paper" is enclosed. If you are interested in: (a) Subscribing CERA Journal in 1995, or (b) Participating in our CERA Conference in Washington, August 1995, or (c) Becomimg Members of CERA Institute/ISPE, or (d) Submitting Papers to CERA Journal for Possible Publications, or (e) Getting instructions for submitting papers to CERA Journal, or (f) Participating as a Reviewer for CERA Journal, or (g) Getting an Electronic List of Papers Published in Volume I (1993) (h) Getting an Electronic List of Papers Published in Volume II (1994) Please, write to us indicatiing your interest. We will send you the required information. If you have further question, please do not hesitate to EMAIL a NOTE at CERA editorial office in USA. Thanking you and looking forward to hearing from you soon, Sincerely, Biren Prasad, Ph.D. Managing Editor Chairman, CERA J. Task Force. Email ID: BPRASAD@CMSA.GMR.COM _____________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) - An International Journal (NOW Entering Third Year of its Publication) CERA is the international, multidisciplinary journal to promote a better understanding of Concurrency in enterprise modeling, informa- tion processing and computing. The purpose of this journal is to provide an international forum for the dissemination of scientific work on Concurrent Engineering based on computer technologies. CERA is the premier publication for the newest and most exciting research arising from parallelism of product's life cycle functions. CERA deals with all basic tracks that enable CE including aspects of Infor- mation Modeling, Teaming & Sharing, Networking & Distribution, Plan- ning & Scheduling, Reasoning & Negotiation, Collaborative Decision Making, Organization and Management of CE. Emphasis is placed on CE technologies that result in faster product development, higher quali- ty, lower costs, improved productivity and better customer value. The journal is an important source of information for design, engineering and manufacturing personnel and those with interest in research, development and applications of productivity tools, methods and con- cepts. The distinguishing nature of the journal is to foster the exchange and integration of concepts and theories from these diverse areas, and cross-fertilization of enabling CE technologies to stimulate thinking that can generate new insights. A second goal is to publish interdis- ciplinary research that advances interactions among these areas. The Editors are well known researchers and practitioners in the field from industry, university and government laboratories. The distinguished Editorial Board reflects the excellence of this important journal and the commitment to publish quality articles on the most timely and significant trends, issues, problems and applications of Concurrent Engineering in modern manufacturing. Research Areas include: o Principles of Concurrent Engineering o CE Process Characterization & Matrix o Enterprise Modeling o Requirements, Constraints, Workflow Tracking & Management o Multi-enterprise Integration o Information Sharing and Collaboration o Project & Team Coordination o Decision Support & Design Assessment o Networked Collocation o Tools for Multi-media Conference on the Network o Distributed Computing Environments o Corporate Technical Memory o Capturing Design Intent o Integration Frameworks for CE o CE Languages and Tools o Intelligent Retrieval of Corporate Knowledge o Virtual Team Support Environments o Blackboard and other AI Architectures o Emerging Standards & Practices o Case Histories & Research Briefs CERA was first launched in 1992 by Academic Press, is now in third Year of its publication. The journal is published four times a year. Potential authors should submit papers or write for instructions to any of the editors or managing editor. Requests for subscriptions and other information can be obtained from the managing editor. Managing Editor: Dr. Biren Prasad Director, CERA Institute P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA. Tel:(810) 696-5487;Fax: (810) 661-8333 Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com Associate Editors: Associate Editors: Dr. Philip Barkan Dr. A.M. Agogino Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Professor (Room # 5136) Stanford University Mechanical Engineering Dept. Design Division University of California Berkeley Stanford, CA 94305, USA Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Tel: (415) 967-8534 (O) Tel:(510)642-6450(O)/ 642 3458(M) / (510) 642 1338(D) Dr. Mark S. Fox Prof. Shuichi Fukuda Computer Science & Mgt. Science Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. of Tech. University of Toronto Dept. of Management Eng. 4 Taddle Creek; Roseburgh Bldg. 6-6, Asahigaoka, Hino Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4 Tokyo 191, JAPAN Tel: (416) 978-6823; Tel: +81 425-83-5111 ext. 266 Fax: (416) 971-1373 /Fax: +81-425-83-5119 PHONE NUMBER: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Mon Oct 17 12:06:41 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA22245; Mon, 17 Oct 94 12:06:41 CDT Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU (bimini.Stanford.EDU [36.93.0.36]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA08745 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 1994 12:06:36 -0500 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA01291 for all-iceimt@einet.net; Mon, 17 Oct 1994 10:06:35 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 10:06:34 PDT From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CFP: CoopIS-95 Message-Id: Call for Papers Third International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-95) May 9-12, 1995 Schloss Wilhelminen-Berg, Vienna, Austria In cooperation with IEEE CS, ACM SIGOIS, ACM SIGMOD (pending approval) An Evolving CIS Paradigm ------------------------ The paradigm for the next generation of information systems (ISs) will involve large numbers of ISs distributed over large, complex computer/communication networks. Such ISs will manage or have acces to large amounts of information and computing services. They will support individual or collaborative human work. The Conference --------------- The CoopIS-95 conference will provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of research covering all aspects of CIS design, requirements, functionality, implementation, deployment, and evolution. The CoopIS-95 conference programme will include technical sessions, invited presentations, panels and tutorials that deal with CISs and the integration of relevant technologies. In addition, CoopIS-95 plans to host special sessions on the industrial applicability of CIS technology. Further information about the conference and its programme can be obtained from the CoopIS-95 General and Program Co-Chairs by email at coopis@dke.univie.ac.at. Information for Authors ----------------------- Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to the concept of CIS, rather than just describing aspects of a component technology (e.g., state assumptions or definitions as to the nature of CISs). Papers which illustrate their results in terms of an CIS application or address technology integration issues leading to CISs are particularly welcome. Submission must be identified as one of three different categories: vision, research, and experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visoins that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vison papers will be evaluated with respect to innovation, realizable applications and technologies, and technical challenges posed (e.g., that do not currently admit of solutions). Research papers should advance the state of the art of CIS and will be evaluated using conventional scientific criteria. Experience papers should describe the practical applications of CIS concepts or methods. They will be evaluated in terms of lessons learned, research issues raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those of legacy information systems. Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up to 6000 words that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. Submissions must include contact information (contact name, postal and e-mail address, and phone number), a 100-word abstract, exact word count, and explicitly indicate the paper category (vision, research, or experience). Suggested themes for submitted papers include (not limited to): --------------------------------------------------------------- - CIS Principles - cooperation, intelligence, autonomy - CIS Architectures and communication protocols - novel open architectures, blackboard systems, multiagent planning frameworks, speech acts, advanced information services in support of interoperability - Business Process Management Systems: Architectures, Concepts, Technology (e.g. analysis, modeling, reengineering and evaluation of business processes) - Large-Scale Knowledge Bases for CIS - sharing and reuse of worldwide knowledge, knowledge of knowledge structures, trends and applications in this area - Core Technology for CIS - open distributed computing architectures, type systems, object models and advanced transaction models for interoperability, advanced query models and languages, active databases - CIS Implementation Techniques - novel programming languages for CISs, interoperability issues in distributed heterogeneous information bases, multi-database transaction scheduling and execution, rule bases - Integration Challenges - interoperability, multiple paradigms, forms of transparency, object and transaction model integration, global information (e.g., schemas, directories, repositories), semantic interoperability, negotiation, optimization (e.g., queries, indexing, ...) - Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs - multiple perspective representations, non-deductive forms of inference (inductive, analogical, case-based, ...), multiagent planning and problem solving - Advanced CIS Programming - workflows, transactions, information requests, policy/rule-driven systems, mega-programming, multiple programming paradigms - Information Engineering for CIS - information acquisition, classification and retrieval techniques and tools, information sharing and management - Re-Engineering - concepts, tools, and methodologies; re-engineer legacy and new information systems into CISs - CIS Evolution - concepts, tools, and techniques for CIS design, development, and maintenance - Information Agents - novel models and organizations, application of information agent technology in virtual laboratories, concurrent engineering and other groupware frameworks. - CIS Applications - current and future. General Chair ------------- Dimitris Karagiannis Dept. Knowledge Engineering University of Vienna Bruenner Str. 72 A-1210 Vienna, Austria email: dk@dke.univie.ac.at Program Co-Chairs ----------------- America (North & South) Steven C. Laufmann (USA) U S WEST Technologies 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, CO, 80303, USA laufmann@advtech.uswest.com Europe & Middle East Stefano Spaccapietra (CH) EPFL-DI-LBD CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch Far East, Africa & Australia Toshio Yokoi (Japan) Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institue Ltd. Mita-Kokusai 1-4-28 Mita, Minato-ku Tokyo 108, Japan yokoi@edr.co.jp Steering Committee ------------------ Michael L. Brodie, GTE-Laboratories, USA Michael N. Huhns, MCC, USA Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Queensland Uni. Technology, Australia Gunter Schlageter, FU Hagen, Germany Program Committee ----------------- Alexander Borgida (USA) Michael L. Brodie (USA) Panos Constantopoulos (Greece) Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Misbah Deen (UK) Lois M. Delcambre (USA) Asuman Dogac (Turkey) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) Les Gasser (USA) J. L. Hainaut (Belgium) Yoshinori Hara (Japan) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Aranza Illaramendi (Spain) Toru Ishida (Japan) V. Jaganathan (USA) Matthias Jarke (Germany) Nick Jennings (UK) Leonid Kalinichenko (Russia) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Hannu Kangassalo (Finland) Roger King (USA) Carig Knoblock (USA) Jacques Kouloumdjian (France) Eiji Kuwana (Japan) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Michel Leonard (Switzerland) Victor Lesser (USA) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) Louis Marinos (Germany) Patrick Martin (Canada) Dennis McLeod (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) Noria Morrie (ETHZ) Juzar Motiwalla (Singapore) John Mylopoulos (Canada) Erich Neuhold (Germany) Anne Ngu (Australia) Tamer Ozsu (Canada) Maurizio Panti (Italy) Mike Papazoglou (Australia) Charles Petrie (USA) Don Potter (USA) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Daniel Ries (USA) Marek Rusinkiewicz (USA) Felix Saltor (Spain) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) Sandip Sen (USA) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katsumi Tanaka (Japan) A Min Tjoa (Austria) Patrick Valduriez (France) Carson Woo (Canada) Important dates --------------- December 15,1994 paper, panel, and tutorial submissions due February 1,1995 notification of acceptance March 1,1995 camera-ready version due ----------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ ----------------------------------- From Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Tue Oct 25 15:53:25 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA03045; Tue, 25 Oct 94 15:53:25 CDT Received: from imag.imag.fr (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA25938 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 1994 15:53:20 -0500 From: Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Received: from isis.imag.fr by imag.imag.fr with SMTP id AA25351 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 25 Oct 1994 20:31:19 +0100 Received: from [129.88.39.223] (mac_sympa-3.imag.fr) by isis.imag.fr with SMTP id AA01445 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 25 Oct 1994 20:31:14 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 20:31:14 +0100 Message-Id: <199410251931.AA01445@isis.imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: IMSE'94 European Workshop Dear Colleague(s), Please mark your calendar and distribute this Workshop announcement to your colleagues and friends interested in Enterprise Modelling, Specification and Integration. You should also consider taking part in the discussions of the Workshop. Come and join us, and don't forget your skies !. Grenoble is at the heart of the Alps and close to shi resorts. With best regards. The Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * D R A F T P R O G R A M M E * * * * * * 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 * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organised by INRIA (National Research Institute for Computer Science and Automation) in association with - EU DG III ESPRIT CIME, - IFIP WG 5.7 on Production Management, - IFAC TC on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, - GSIP-CNRS (Groupement Scientifique Interdisciplinaire pour la Productique), - ENSGI (National Engineering School on Industrial Engineering, 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. GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Workshop Objectives: -------------------- The major aim of the Workshop is to bring together European experts from industry and academia to address and discuss key issues for industry concerning integrated manufacturing systems engineering. More specifically, the objectives are: - 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 both to scientists and professionals (managers, R&D engineers, industrial engineers) from manufacturing enterprises and service companies concerned with business process engineering or reorganisation, manufacturing system 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. Results from some ESPRIT projects and the AIT Initiative will also be reported. Operational Issues: ------------------ The number of participants will be limited to 80 (50 seats are reserved to speakers; additional registrations will be made on a first-come first-served policy). Early registration is recommended. The number of parallel sessions will be minimised. Each day will start with an invited talk followed by technical sessions for regular paper presentation. Working group meetings on specific topics identified during technical discussions can be held at the end of each day. A closing session with reports from working groups will conclude the meeting. The Workshop will be followed by a two-day standardisation meeting of CEN/TC 310/WG1 working on enterprise modelling and architectures. All participants must register. Registration Fees: ------------------ Registration fees include a copy of the Workshop proceedings, lunches, coffe breaks and a banquet. Registration fees have been fixed as follows (including all taxes): Regular registration: 1700 French Francs ------------------ Participants to the Workshop should complete the enclosed registration form and return it together with the registration fee to the Workshop Secretariat. Early registration is recommended due to the Workshop size limit. Payment: -------- Payments can be made either: By bank transfer to : Trésorerie Générale des Yvelines Account no. 10071 - 78000 - 00044009153 - 89 or to : CCP Paris no. 30041 - 00001 - 0909945 B020 - 31 By checks made payable to Agent Comptable de l'INRIA in French Francs. Payment by check is preferred. Payment and registration form must be sent to: 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 E-mail: joyaux@inpg.fr Workshop Location: ------------------ The Workshop will be held at: ATRIA WORLD TRADE CENTER GRENOBLE Place Robert Schuman - Europole - 38000 Grenoble This location is only 200 m far from Grenoble's railway station (follow signs for Grenoble Europole) and is surrounded by numerous hotels and restaurants (see list below). The area is served by Grenoble's modern tramway. Grenoble can be easily reached: - by plane: fly to Lyon Satolas international airport, which is connected with Paris airports and most European capitals by direct flights, and then use the bus shuttle to Grenoble stopping at the railway station (a few metres from the Workshop site) - by TGV trains direct from Paris (Gare de Lyon) or from Lyon - by road via highways from Lyon and from Chambery Demonstrations: -------------- For those wishing to make software demonstrations, display areas will be available but no computer equipment will be provided (except PCs and MacIntoshs on request). Poster displays will also be permitted. Official Languages: ------------------- The official language for discussions and related documents will be English. However, due to national regulation, French can also be used. WORKSHOP COMMITTEES ------------------- General Chairman : Dr. F. Vernadat (F) Organising Committee: --------------------- Chaired by Prof. P. Ladet (F) Prof. S.K. Banerjee (UK), Mr. 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 (SF), Prof. W. Eversheim (D), Mr. W. Gielingh (NL), Prof. A Janiak (PL), Prof. P. Kopacek (A), Prof. F. Krause (D), Dr. R. Kwikkers (NL), Prof. P. Lecocq (B), Prof. Marques dos Santos (P), Dr. I. Mezgar (H), Mr. D. Morin (EC/DG III), Prof. Mulkens (CH), Prof. Y. Nof (USA), Prof. A. Puente (E), Prof. U. Rembold (D), Prof. M. Rodd (UK), Prof. A. Rolstadas (N), Prof. W-A. Scheer (D), Prof. M. Silva (E), 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), Prof. M. Zaremba (CDN) Industrial Committee: --------------------- Chaired by: Dr. B. Girard (PSA, F) Dr. P. Albert (ILOG, F), R. Brulz (BMW, D), F. Cachard (ITMI, F), G. Drossopoulos (Infogroup, G), Mrs. M. Goldzstejn (Dassault Aviation, F), G. Guilbert (Aérospatiale, F), F.M. Hagemann (AUDI/VW, D), Dr. J. Koenig (Siemens, D), M. Koethe (DEC, D), Dr. F. Naccari (FIAT, I), M. Schemmer (AEG, D), G. Segarra (Renault, F), D. Shorter (IT Focus, UK), Dr. H. Soboll (Daimler-Benz, D), A. Vasino (Alenia, I), P. Volpert (IBM, F) Local Organisation: ------------------- Mme M. Joyaux, GSIP-CNRS Mr. Bruno Millon, INRIA Rhône-Alpes TECHNICAL PROGRAMME ------------------- Registration starts at 08:00 a.m. on Monday 12. Keynote Address (Monday 12, 09:00 a.m.) --------------- Industry requirements and associated research issues in the extended enterprise Prof. J. Browne (University College Galway, Galway, Ireland) Technical Areas: The Workshop is organised according to three major tracks: ---------------- o Track 1: Manufacturing Enterprise Modelling and Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------- (Monday 12 and Tuesday 13) (Coordinators: Prof. S.K. Banerjee, Dr. F. Vernadat) Enterprise Engineering with CIMOSA - Application at FIAT (Invited paper) K. Kosanke (CIMOSA Association, Germany), F. Naccari (FIAT, Italy) Process-oriented order processing - A new method for business process reengineering and simplification Prof. W. Eversheim (WZL, Aachen, Germany) Toward a CIM engineering workbench E. Lutherer, M. Martinez, J. Favrel (INSA Lyon, France), B. Querenet (HP France) Making CIMOSA operational G. Bruno, C. Reyneri, B. Chiavola, M. Varani (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Partial modelling for automated production systems J-M. Faure, F. Couffin, S. Lamperičre, A. Bassand (Laboratoire d'Ingénierie Intégrée des Systčmes Industriels LIISI, Toulon, France) Object-oriented modelling and analysis of business processes K. Mertins, H. Edeler, R. Jochem, J. Hofmann (IPK Berlin, Germany) The holistic modelling of production processes - a first step within the construction of enterprise specific production planning and control systems W. Dangelmaier, W. Felser (Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn, Germany) Integrated modelling tools for shop floor CIM systems J.J. Pinto Ferreira, J.M. Mendonça (INESC Porto, Portugal) Integrated approach considering quality management to improve the ship predesign process by means of structured methods N. Hassan, F. Ihlenfeldt, M. Krömker and K-D. Thoben (BIBA, Bremen, Germany) FLOPPY: A flow management for on-line processes in production systems T. Quellenberg, J. Schubert, G. von Bültzingsloewen (FZI, Universität Karlsruhe, Allemagne) New approach for the modelling of production systems N. Belmahdi, A. Nadif (ENIM, Metz, France) The economic view: A concept using benchmarks to model, analyze and control economically relevant aspects of business processes Mr. Franck Neuscheler (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe KfK, Karlsruhe, Germany) Improvement of bid preparation for capital goods B.E. Hirsch, M. Krömker, K-D. Thoben (BIBA, Universität Bremen, Germany) Concurrent engineering and economic effect of design decisions C. Marty (INSA Lyon, France) Modelling processes by rules: regularities, alternatives and constraints M.F. Bonfatti, P.D. Monari, M.P. Paganelli (Universita' degli Studi di Modena, Modena, Italy) Cordination approaches for CIM M. Norrie, M. Wunderli. U. Leonhardt, R. Montau, W. Schaad, H-J. Schek (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) The requirements and application of an integrated computer aided manufacturing systems design environment D. Wood, S. Devereux (Lucas Engineering & Systems Ltd, West Midlands, UK) Using a formal declarative language for specifying requirements modelled in CIMOSA E. Dubois, M. Petit (Facultés Universitaires de Namur, Belgique) Modelling manufacturing dynamics for production control E. Canuto, F. Donati, M. Vallauri (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy) Interflow systems for manufacturing: Concepts and a construction J. Goossenaerts, D. Bjorner (United Nations University, Macau) o Track 2: Manufacturing System Specification and Evaluation (Tuesday 13) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Coordinators: Prof. P. Ladet, Dr. J-M. Proth, Dr. A.E.K. Sahraoui) The AIT Initiative (Invited paper) B. Girard (PSA, France) Production scheduling and control systems in Cockerill Sambre P-M. Evrard (Cockerill Sambre, Flemalle, Belgique) Material flow management in automobile assembly: The FIAT plant in Cassino A. Agnetis, M. Lucertini, S. Nicoletti, F. Nicolň, G. Oriolo, A. Pacifici, D. Pacciarelli, E. Pesaro, F. Rossi (Terza Universitŕ degli Studi di Roma, Italy) A methodology approach for resources assignment problem into projects management M-S. Ouali, A. El Mhamedi, Z. Binder (Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, France) A high level Petri net model of generalized dynamic job-shop C. Valentin, L.M. Aguilera, P. Ladet, Z. Binder (Laboratoire d'Automatique et de Génie des Procédés, Grenoble, France) Synthesis of monitoring functions based on a formal specification L.A. Künzle, B. Pradin-Chézalviel, F. Girault, R. Valette (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France) Specification environment for multi-agent systems based on anonymous communication in the CIM context A. Attoui, A. Hasbani, A. Maouche (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Fd, France) Model of a behavioural approach to schedule and control a flexible manufacturing ring: an extension to the pull flow C. Tacquard, P. Baptiste, H. Manier (Laboratoire d'Automatique de Besançon, France) Characterization of feasible schedules: a decomposition approach M-L. Levy, P. Lopez, B. Pradin (CNRS-LAAS, Toulouse, France) Toward a really synchronous simulation of statecharts ? H. Guéguen (Supélec, Rennes, France) An interactive model for assembly line balancing A. Enmer, P. Baptiste, J. Favrel (LISPI, INSA Lyon, France) A new tool: the generalised and synchronised stochastic Petri nets O. Daniel, Z. Simeu-Abazi, B. Descotes-Genon (LAG-ENSIEG, Grenoble, France) A multicriteria decision support system for dynamic task allocation in a distributed production activity control structure D. Trentesaux, R. Dindeleux, C. Tahon (LAMIH, Valenciennes, France) Resolution of scheduling problems by modeling with Petri nets P. Richard, J-L. Bouquard, C. Proust (Université de Tours, France) An operational methodology for production systems control design E. Grünenberger, C. Proust (Université de Tours, France) Manufacturing system modelling with a Markovian analysis D. De Almeida, M. Gourgand, P. Kellert (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Fd, France) Petri net modelling for dynamic process planning D. Kiritsis (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) On the variability of the throughput and the random time to complete a fixed batch with failure prone machines M-O. Hongler, E. Dominé (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) The minimum-cost, machine part cell formation problem F. F. Boctor (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) A model for operating modes of computer integrated manufacturing systems P. Biland, A-M. Deplanche, J-P. Elloy (Laboratoire d'Automatique de Nantes, France) Integrated operation of batch chemical processes K. Kuriyan, G.E. Rotstein, A. Sanchez, C. Crooks, S. Macchietto (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medecine, London, UK) Competitive issues in make-to-order manufacturing C. Hicks, P.M. Braiden (University of Newcastel Upon Tyne, UK) o Track 3: Manufacturing Systems Integration (Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Coordinators: Mr. K. Kosanke, Prof. G.H. Weston) The Generalized Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM) - A Proposal from the IFAC/IFIP Task Force for a Potential Universal Standard (Invited paper) Prof. T.J. Williams (Purdue University, USA) Overview of CEN activities on Enterprise Modelling for Integration (Invited paper) D. Shorter (IT Focus, UK) Enterprise Model Execution and Integration Services - A statement of requirements and evaluation from CEN TC 310 WG1 (Invited paper) D. Shorter (IT Focus, UK) QCIM - The German initiative for prenormative R&D in manufacturing and quality assurance (Invited paper) H. Walze (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe KfK, Karlsruhe, Germany) Model enactment as a basis for rapid prototyping of manufacturing systems M. Aguiar, I. Coutts, R.H. Weston (Loughborough University of Technology, UK) Information infrastructure for the value chain manufacturing engineering W. Eversheim, Weck, F-J. Stepprath, Friedrich, B. Katzy (WZL ADITEC, Aachen, Germany) >From STEP product modeling to product manufacturing: an approach using identification tags F. Chaxel, E. Bajic, J. Richard (CRAN, Nancy, France) >From information system analysis to MMS communications generation: Application to the Paris underground E. Rondeau, T. Divoux, F. Lepage, M. Veron (CRAN, Nancy, France) Intelligent application integration for distributed production B.E. Hirsch, T. Kuhlmann, Z. Marciniak, C. Massow (BIBA, Bremen, Germany) A model-driven toolset for flexibility integrating manufacturing systems R.H. Weston, J.M. Edwards (Loughborough University of Technology, UK) Integrating manufacturing information systems within small and medium sized enterprises D.E. Tucker, C.E.R. Wainwright, A.J.S. Thethi (De Montfort University, UK) Integration of industrial applications: The CCE-CNMA approach P. Pleinevaux (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) The development of an information sharing platform for Concurrent Engineering T.I.A. Ellis, A. Molina, R.I.M. Young, R. Bell (Loughborough University of Technology, UK) A software engineering strategy as a basis for enterprise integration in multi/client server environments D. Solte (FAW, Ulm, Germany) Closing Session: --------------- Wednesday 14, 04:15 pm Report from working groups. A first working group will be held on Monday 12 (6-7 pm) and Tuesday 13 (6-7 pm) The banquet will be served on Tuesday 13 at 8 pm. The exact details of sessions will be communicated later. Proposed List of Hotels ----------------------- All these hotels are in walking distance from the Workshop location. Delegates must book their hotels directly. Hotel Novotel Atria (***), Europole, 7 Place Robert Schuman - 38000 Grenoble - 470 Frs Tel: +33 76 70 84 10 Fax: +33 76 70 84 20 (on the Workshop location) Hotel Europole (***), 29 rue P. Sémard - 38000 Grenoble - 360 to 460 Frs Tel: +33 76 49 51 52 Fax: +33 76 21 99 00 Hotel Porte de France (***), 27 quai Claude Bernard - 38000 Grenoble - 310 to 350 Frs Tel: +33 76 47 39 73 Fax: +33 76 50 95 03 Hotel Terminus (***), 10 place de la Gare - 38000 Grenoble - 200 to 450 Frs Tel: +33 76 87 24 33 Fax: +33 76 50 38 28 Hotel des Alpes (**), 45 av. Felix Viallet - 38000 Grenoble - 220 to 280 Frs Tel: +33 76 87 00 71 Fax: +33 76 56 95 45 Hotel Bastille (**), 25 av. Felix Viallet - 38000 Grenoble - 220 Frs Tel: +33 76 43 10 27 Fax: +33 76 87 52 69 Hotel Bristol (**), 11 av. Felix Viallet - 38000 Grenoble - 170 to 230 Frs Tel: +33 76 46 11 18 Fax: +33 76 87 73 55 Hotel de l'Institut (**), 10 rue Barbillon - 38000 Grenoble - 130 to 230 Frs Tel: +33 76 46 36 44 Fax: +33 76 47 73 09 Hotel de Savoie (**), 52 av. Alsace-Lorraine - 38000 Grenoble - 250 to 287 Frs Tel: +33 76 46 00 20 Fax: +33 76 47 09 15 Hotel Suisse et Bordeaux (**), 6 place de la Gare - 38000 Grenoble - 215 to 265 Frs Tel: +33 76 47 55 87 Fax: +33 76 46 23 87 Touring Hotel (**), 26 av. Alsace-Lorraine - 38000 Grenoble - 200 to 250 Frs Tel: +33 76 46 24 32 Fax: +33 76 46 02 85 By bus: Hotel Président (***), 11 rue Mal Mangin - 38100 Grenoble - 440 to 595 Frs Tel: +33 76 56 26 56 Fax: +33 76 56 26 82 Alpotel Mercure Centre (***), 12 bd Mal Joffre - 38000 Grenoble - 295 to 440 Frs Tel: +33 76 87 88 41 Fax: +33 76 47 58 52 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMSE'94 REGISTRATION FORM (To be filled in and mailed with payment or proof of payment to IMSE'94 Workshop Secretariat, GSIP-CNRS, 46 avenue Felix Viallet, F-38031 Grenoble Cedex, France. Do not send by e-mail) LASTNAME: FIRST NAME: ORGANISATION: ADDRESS: COUNTRY TELEPHONE: FAX NUMBER: E-MAIL ADDRESS: Enclosed is my payment of French Francs to the order of "Agent Comptable de l'INRIA" paid by I plan to arrive in Grenoble on: December 1994 ________________________________________________________________________ Francois B. 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To order you copy please E-mail to Tom Brady (brady@mgmt.purdue.edu) From Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Wed Oct 26 12:26:58 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA15514; Wed, 26 Oct 94 12:26:58 CDT Received: from imag.imag.fr (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA29726 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 1994 12:26:54 -0500 From: Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Received: from isis.imag.fr by imag.imag.fr with SMTP id AA14417 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 26 Oct 1994 18:26:50 +0100 Received: from [129.88.39.223] (mac_sympa-3.imag.fr) by isis.imag.fr with SMTP id AA18084 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 26 Oct 1994 18:26:46 +0100 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 18:26:46 +0100 Message-Id: <199410261726.AA18084@isis.imag.fr> X-Sender: vernadat@isis (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CIMOSA Newsletter Vol. 1/2 CIMOSA Association ------------------ Vol. 1/2 date 94-10-01 CIMOSA - News Editor: M. Zelm, Gehenbuehlstr. 18A, D-70499 Stuttgart Announcement ------------ The CIMOSA - News is published by the CIMOSA Association. The CIMOSA News will report on CIMOSA applications, evolution of its technical specification, advancements in standardisation and related items. Contributions from other parties are welcome. The CIMOSA - News will be printed periodically and will be distributed to all parties interested in CIMOSA. CIMOSA Applications ------------------- Several new applications have been reported by external parties during a recent Workshop at Aachen. More details are described below and in the paragraph 'Reports from Events'. KfK Karlsruhe and the Engineering School of Offenburg have developed a CIMOSA application 'Analysis and Restructuring of Business Processes in a Paper Mill'. The CIMOSA GmbH is emphasising their intention on product developments, one area being Business Process Management in SME's. A project proposal has been prepared; a non-German partner for development of application software is still needed. For further information please contact M. Klittich(1). CIMOSA Technical Specification ------------------------------ The CIMOSA Technical Baseline, Version 3.0 was presented at the last Workshop in Aachen. It will become available in October 1994 and may be ordered from the CIMOSA Association (price ECU 200). The new version is based on the AMICE Formal Reference Base (Milestones M-2 and M-3 Deliverables) and has been edited for re-structuring its contents, reducing redundancy and improving consistency. Compared with the previous version of the Technical Baseline, the constructs for the Requirements Description and Design Specification Modelling Level have been completed and constructs for Function and Information View for the Implementation Description Modelling Level have been added. CIMOSA in Standardisation ------------------------- The 9th meeting of the IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration was held in Ottawa, Canada on August 25-26, 1994 in conjunction with the SPE/IFAC International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future. A large part of the meeting was dedicated to the presentation and acceptance of the PERA proposal for master planning as part of GERAM (2). It was concluded that it should be possible to have a generic activity model from which both machine and human activities could be specialised (with the enterprise activity model of CIMOSA as a candidate) and it is proposed to document the GERAM methodology in terms of business processes using CIMOSA constructs. The ISO Committee Draft (CD) 14258, Framework for Enterprise Modelling has been analysed by the IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for Integration. In a common position documented in a letter to ISO, the Task Force members expressed their doubts about the practical usefulness of the present CD version. A revision of the CD is expected. Reports from Events ------------------- CIMOSA Association; Workshop (3): Business Re-engineering; WZL/ADITEC, Aachen, Germany , 94-09-21: At the Workshop, several CIMOSA applications in the fields of integrated quality management, process oriented order handling and document flow management, all related to model based process re-engineering were reported. The models, usually suited for SME's are supported by modelling tools. Examples of tools are Proplan (WZL), PACE (Grossenbacher) and the McCIM tool kit (KfK). The Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) Research Institute of Loughborough University presented their 'Model driven CIM' Frameworks Prototype. The integrated environment embraces three modelling approaches: (1) a largely CIMOSA based approach named SEW-OSA (Software Engineering Workbench - OSA), (2) an object oriented approach based on the Booth methodology, and (3) a modelling approach based on Estelle - together with an integrating infrastructure for model enactment. An application of 'order flow' business process at an electronic component manufacturer was reported. The discussions at the Workshop were focusing on the need to provide user guidelines for problem solutions with CIMOSA and on the feasibility how to include human activities of group work in the context of business re-engineering in CIMOSA models. The need for modelling tools supporting the business user rather than IT people was emphasised. Upcoming Events --------------- 94/11/09 - CIMOSA Association: Workshop on Enterprise Modelling and Simulation Tools; WZL/ADITEC, Aachen, Germany. 94/12/12-14 - INRIA; IMSE'94 - European Workshop on Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering; Grenoble, France (information: vernadat@imag.fr). 95/03/9-10 - Business Process Management with CIMOSA, Impact on Human Aspects and on SME's; Offenburg, Germany. 95-tbd - CIMOSA Association: Workshops to be held at WZL/ADITEC, Aachen, Germany: Concurrent Engineering Integrated Quality Strategies Virtual Enterprise Design Oriented Costing CIMOSA Literature ----------------- CIMOSA - Open System Architecture for CIM; ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, Springer-Verlag 1993, (ISBN 3-540-56256-7), (ISBN 0-387-56256-7) CIMOSA - Open System Architecture for CIM, Technical Baseline; ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, private publication February 1993 CIMOSA Association ------------------ The CIMOSA Association is a non-profit organisation involved in the promotion of CIMOSA, its active support in national, European and international standardisation and in the consolidation of the evolution of its technical specification: the CIMOSA Technical Baseline. The CIMOSA Association acts as a focal point for all parties involved in applying CIMOSA in industrial and research environments. It supports these efforts through expert service by clarifying the CIMOSA technical specifications and by providing opportunities for presenting results to interested Workshop audiences and through general publications on CIMOSA applications. Members of the CIMOSA Association are industrial and research organisations involved in exploitating CIMOSA or interested in the subject of enterprise integration. Membership is open to any organisation interested in supporting enterprise integration and CIMOSA. Proformas for membership application may be obtained on request. For more information please contact: K. Kosanke Stockholmer Str 7 D-71034 Boeblingen, Germany Phone: (49) 7031 27 76 65 FAX: (49) 7031 27 66 98 e-mail: Kosanke@IPA.FHG.de 1 EEISS, Spessartweg 54, D-65760 Eschborn, Germany 2 Generic Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology 3 CIMOSA Assoc. Workshops supported by the European Commission through its Programme on Accompanying Measures ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________ From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Fri Nov 4 13:10:38 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA29852; Fri, 4 Nov 94 13:10:38 CST Received: from CMSA.gmr.com (cmsa.gmr.com [129.124.64.32]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA22142 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 1994 13:10:34 -0600 From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Message-Id: <199411041910.NAA22142@einet.net> Received: from GMRCMSA by CMSA.gmr.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2189; Fri, 04 Nov 94 14:09:11 EST Date: Fri, 04 Nov 94 14:09:11 EST To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CFP: CE95 Second Conference FROM: BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. Concurrent Engineering TEL: (810) 696-5487 (8-366);FAX: 661-8333 Subject: CFP: CE95 Second Conference CE95 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS Washington, DC Area August 23-25, 1995 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CE95, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, is a major forum for the international scientific exchange and presentation 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. CE95 is sponsored by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, GE Corporate Research and Development, the International Society for Productivity Enhancement, and the CERA Journal. It is hosted by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA, USA. Topics of Interest: Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all areas of product design, engineering and manufacturing, including, but not limited to: * Enterprise integration (e.g., assessing an organization's readiness, CE assessment models, integrated process capture, re- engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises) * Cooperative work (e.g., team coordination, common visibility of activities and data, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, conflict resolution techniques, constraints management, planning and scheduling of activities, workflow, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure) * Information sharing (e.g., information modeling and simulation, data version control and management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledgebase management systems) * Communication tools (e.g., computer-based video and audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail, network- wide sharing of tools, graphical collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability) * Integrated frameworks and tools (e.g., architectures for building concurrent engineering systems, integration of tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration) * Life cycle engineering (e.g., design for X, integrated product and process development, environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality) * Practical applications of CE in industry (e.g., case studies, practical solutions, systematic guidelines, pitfalls and success stories) Timetable: * Authors should submit a full draft paper, not exceeding 16 single spaced pages, to the Program Co-Chairs or Program Chair, no later than January 1, 1995 (preferably by E-mail in plain ASCII or PostScript). Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. * Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) on or before February 28, 1995. * Final camera-ready versions of the papers must be received by April 15, 1995. Details of the format will be sent later. Conference Proceedings: * Conference Proceedings will be published by an International Publishing House or by Concurrent Technologies Corporation. * 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 (810) 696-4587/ Fax: (810) 661-8333 Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com Conference General Chair: Dr. Anand J. Paul Concurrent Technologies Corporation 11605 Bedfordshire Avenue Potomac, MD 20854 E-Mail: paul@ctc.com Telephone: (301) 762-6190, Fax: (301) 762-6191 International Co-Chair: Dr. Mark Fox Dept. of Industrial Engineering University of Toronto 4 Taddle Creek Road Toronto, Ontario Phone: 416-978-6823, Fax: 416-971-1373 E-mail: msf@ie.utoronto.ca Conference Program Chair: Dr. Michael Sobolewski GE Corporate Research and Development KW Building, Room C279, P. O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 E-Mail: sobol@crd.ge.com Telephone: (518) 387-5150, Fax: (518) 387-7080 Program Co-Chair (Enterprise Integration): Dr. Pravir K. Chawdhry School of Mechanical Engineering University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom E-Mail: P.K.Chawdhry@bath.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (1225) 826956, Fax: +44 (1225) 826928 Program Co-Chair (Communication Tools and Integrated Frameworks): 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-Chair (Information Sharing): Dr. V. "Juggy" Jagannathan Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University, P. O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 E-Mail: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Telephone: (304) 293-7226, Fax: (304) 293-7541 Program Co-Chair (Cooperative Work): Dr. Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services P. O. Box 24346, MS 7L-44 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 E-Mail: mklein@atc.boeing.com Telephone: (206) 865-3412, Fax: (206) 865-2965 Program Co-Chair (Practical Applications and Environments): Dr. Anthony J. Gadient SCRA, 5300 International Blvd. N. Charleston, SC 29418 E-Mail: gadient@scra.org Telephone: (803) 760-4357, Fax: (803) 760-3349 Program Co-Chair (Life Cycle Engineering): Dr. S. N. Dwivedi Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 E-Mail: dwivedi@faculty.coe.wvu.edu Telephone: (304) 293-3111, Fax: (304) 293-6689 A current version of a CE95 call for papers is available at: http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/~sobol/CE95.html and information about CE94 and the proceedings is available at http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/~sobol/CE94.html If you or a coleague would like to be added to or removed from the CE95 mailing list, please send e-mail to sobol@crd.ge.com. -- REPLY TO: e-mail: paul@ctc.com Telephone: (301) 762-6190 Fax: (301) 762-6191 Mailing Address: Anand J. Paul Concurrent Technologies Corporation 11605 Bedfordshire Avenue Potomac, MD 20854 PHONE NUMBER: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com cc: SMTP --NONPROFS paul SMTP --NONPROFS Mike Sobolesky From goranson@isi.edu Mon Nov 14 16:46:09 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA11597; Mon, 14 Nov 94 16:46:09 CST Received: from icm1.icp.net (icm1.icp.net [192.94.207.66]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA17074 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 1994 16:46:07 -0600 Received: from infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by icm1.icp.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA19751 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 1994 17:46:06 -0500 Received: from [198.22.1.147] by infi.net with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #13) id m0r7AAA-0002IbC; Mon, 14 Nov 94 17:46 EST Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 17:46 EST X-Sender: tedg@mailhost.infi.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: goranson@isi.edu (Ted Goranson) Subject: Update on EI programs EI Friends, This message reports on some continuation of the EI agenda, from my perspective. 1. Air Force ManTech, together with ARPA, has spent the last couple years folding EI concepts into one of the areas to be supported under a forthcoming effort on Virtual Manufacturing. The link is: EI is the set of solutions that empower the Virtual Enterprise (VE). VM is VE with simulation for some or all of the components. I've helped with this planning. Although the Dod budget is up and down, I'm pretty optimistic about this effort bringing new EI technologies into reality. Mickey Hitchcock (hitchmf%ml%wpafb@mlgate.ml.wpafb.af.mil) is the point of contact. 2. The Agility Forum has chartered a focus group on the Virtual Enterprise. I'm active in this group, which meets every six weeks or so. As such volunteer groups go, this one is first class and has produced some insights into the domain which were new to me. Orapong Thien-Ngern (ot00@lehigh.edu) is the point for invitations, information. Jim Jordan (jjordan@cup.portal.com) is the facilitator. 3. The forum is independently sponsoring a Best Practices survey/study to discover how world-class VE activity is currently supported. This has been underway for a month and, in a very compressed time schedule, will be complete by the end of Jan 95 for presentation/publication. I am the facilitator for this study, and would appreciate input from anyone who has a case were someone is being done well or innovatively. Educational failures are also useful. Proprietary protection can be arranged. I will travel to your site and, if you wish, brief you on any of the efforts listed here. 4. You may know that for the last decade I have been working on the "inside" of government EI-related programs. I have decided to re-enter the community of working technologists, with the intent of making useful EI products. Toward that end, I have been awarded a $1M ARPA contract whose purpose is effectively to architect one set of products. These will focus on boundaries among processes in the VE/VM environment, and create formally-based, quantitative metrics. A formal management science binding is one third of the effort; an implementors' binding (leveraging the ICEIMT results) is a second third. Finally, a test site will be exercised (this has not been identified, and will probably be drawn from candidates from #3 above). A relationship with CIMOSA of some kind is envisioned. Some funded positions are still open. 5. I am planning on submitting a bid to the Advanced Technology Project (ATP) to build the tools to support the above. The strategy will be to use the federation mechanism described in ICEIMT to federate the parametric model of metrics into the local tool sets used for decisions/control. This will be submitted to the Component-Based Software Focused Program in the spring. A first cut was submitted recently, with the only inadequacies in the proposal's description, not the project. So I expect success. I'd be happy to discuss this effort individually. 6. Independently, ATP is considering a program in VE. These typically are $80-120M. The program manager hasn't been announced yet. But there has already been a workshop, with two white papers submitted. I wrote one of these which essentially rehashes the ICEIMT results. Be happy to send it out to anyone interested. The new program manager at NIST is Barbara Goldstein goldstein@eeel.nist.gov). Another workshop is likely. Best, Ted =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .....| Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta | | .....| 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach VA 23457-1227 | ARoarABoaryAlice | .....| 804/426-6704, Fax 804/721-0781 | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Mon Nov 21 15:40:42 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA26495; Mon, 21 Nov 94 15:40:42 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu [157.182.44.3]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA21718 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 1994 15:40:40 -0600 Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA22095; Mon, 21 Nov 94 16:40:38 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9411212140.AA22095@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: WET ICE '95 To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 16:40:37 -0500 (EST) Cc: juggy@einet.net (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5778 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '95 Fourth IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 20-22, 1995 Berkeley Springs, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society and support from AAAI, will conduct the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 20-22, 1995, at the Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. We also have applied for the cooperation of ACM (ACM SIGOIS lent their cooperation to last year's workshop). The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Applications of collaborative technologies in * healthcare * software engineering * electronic commerce * etc. Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Mobile computing Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capture of design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be currently under submission for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of each author. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or PostScript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript December 16, 1994 Notification of decisions February 15, 1995 Advance Registration March 20, 1995 WORKSHOP April 20-22, 1995 Final version of the paper May 15, 1995 Student Grant Program Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work. Funds are available to support the participation costs of a limited number of students whose papers are accepted for presentation. This support, provided by AAAI, will include free registration as well as lodging and meals for three days. Workshop Location The workshop will be held at the Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa, a 1,200-acre, rustic mountain retreat in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, approximately 100 miles northwest of Washington D.C. In addition to tennis, swimming, hiking (including morning nature walks), and horseback riding, Coolfont has a full-service spa, offering massages and facials. A championship golf course is located at Cacapon State Park, seven miles away. Spouse rates will be available and will be announced at a later date. WET ICE '94 Synopsis Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multi-media, graphical user-interfaces, and a precipitous drop in the "cost of computing" point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group of members) of a team. The IEEE Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focused precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings is a compendium of 24 scientific papers and three working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Abstracts of the papers are available electronically from IEEE Computer Society's gopher server (gopher info.computer.org; or telnet info.computer.org, login: guest). Copies of the WET ICE '94 proceedings can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States. Copies are $25 for IEEE members and $50 for non-members. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, April 17-19, 1994" when ordering. Proceedings of the Second Workshop are also available. WET ICE '95 Chairs General Chair: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Program Chair: Prof. John R. Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Point of Contact John R. Callahan Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 1-304-293-7226 x286 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu Internet Information Sites This CFP, and other future information about the workshop, can be accessed through: - World Wide Web at URL http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE95_cfp.html, - anonymous ftp at babcock.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements, and - Gopher at gopher.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements. From speyer@mcc.com Thu Dec 1 15:14:45 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA08528; Thu, 1 Dec 94 15:14:45 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com (turtle.mcc.com [128.62.1.215]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA26012 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 1994 15:14:44 -0600 Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA26660; Thu, 1 Dec 94 15:14:44 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA22880; Thu, 1 Dec 94 15:14:43 CST Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 15:14:43 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9412012114.AA22880@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Re: help for iceimt list In-Reply-To: Mail from 'Nenad Ivezic ' dated: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 13:38:19 -0500 (EST) Nenad Ivezic writes: >I just subscribed to all-iceimt list and received a message that you may be >able to provide help. Hence, could you please let me know if there is >an archive and how to access it for this list. I was about to respond to Nenad and then realized that the answer is of general interest so I'm sending it to the list. Closest thing to an ICEIMT archive right now is at the URL http://galaxy.einet.net/EINet/iceimt.html It is mostly just a repository for information from the ICEIMT event in 93. I haven't ever made messages to the ICEIMT list retrievable but in fact I have them all and could easily do that if there is interest. If I hear from a couple of you (email speyer@mcc.com) to do it I will. -Bruce From speyer@mcc.com Fri Dec 2 15:22:57 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12773; Fri, 2 Dec 94 15:22:57 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com (turtle.mcc.com [128.62.1.215]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA04044 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 1994 15:22:56 -0600 Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA09754; Fri, 2 Dec 94 15:22:55 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA27584; Fri, 2 Dec 94 15:22:54 CST Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 15:22:54 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9412022122.AA27584@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: online all-iceimt archives The ALL-iCEIMT archives from June, 1992 to present are now online and being updated daily at the URL http://galaxy.einet.net/hypermail/iceimt It is threaded by date, subject, author and is searchable. The ICEIMT home page is at http://galaxy.einet.net/EINet/iceimt.html Comments and suggestions for additions to either of these information sources are welcomed- send email to speyer@einet.net The archives are also obtainable by ftp://ftp.einet.net/iceimt/archive.Z and using the index and get features by email to listproc@einet.net Guess I should have done this a year ago! -Bruce From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Thu Dec 8 15:44:30 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02935; Thu, 8 Dec 94 15:44:30 CST Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU (bimini.Stanford.EDU [36.93.0.36]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA18406 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 1994 15:44:29 -0600 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA28081; Thu, 8 Dec 1994 13:44:27 -0800 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 13:44:27 PST From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu To: all-iceimt@einet.net, share@bimini.Stanford.EDU Subject: [CE95 Call for Panels and Tutorials ] Cc: sobol@julius.crd.ge.com Message-Id: Message-Id: <9412081943.AA15973@julius.crd.ge.com> To: ce95all@woody.crd.ge.com Cc: sobol@julius.crd.ge.com, lewisjw@crd.GE.COM Subject: CE95 Call for Panels and Tutorials X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5delta 8/30/94 Date: Thu, 08 Dec 94 14:43:07 -0500 X-Mts: smtp CALL FOR PANEL AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS THE INDUSTRY FOCUS IN CE95 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS Washington, DC Area August 23-25, 1995 CE95, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, is a major forum for the international scientific exchange and presentation 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. Panels and tutorials are solicited to alert industry and government attendees to the potential of emerging CE technologies and to provide a forum for sharing lessons learned in successful enterprise-wide concurrent engineering projects. The intent is to accelerate high-impact applications of CE technology in industry or government and to steer CE research towards applications in which such impact can be achieved. CE95 is sponsored by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, GE Corporate Research and Development, the International Society for Productivity Enhancement, and the CERA Journal. It is hosted by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA, USA. Topics of Interest: Submissions are invited for tutorials and panels which connect emerging CE technologies with successful applications in industry and government. Proposals are solicited for * CE Case Studies: Successful application of concurrent engineering to major product development activities, lessons learned, technology transition, organizational approaches, barriers, team training. * Enterprise integration: Assessing an organization's readiness, CE assessment models, integrated process capture, re- engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises. * Cooperative work: Team coordination, common visibility of activities and data, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, conflict resolution techniques, constraints management, planning and scheduling of activities, workflow, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure. * Information sharing: Information modeling and simulation, data version control and management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledgebase management systems. * 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. * Integrated frameworks and tools: Architectures for building concurrent engineering systems, integration of tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration. * Life cycle engineering: Design for X, integrated product and process development, environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality. Timetable: * Authors should submit a one page proposal to the panel co-chair by January 15, 1995 (preferably by E-mail in plain ASCII or PostScript). Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. * Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) on or before February 28, 1995. * Draft overheads and handouts must be received by April 15, 1995. Details of the format will be sent later. * Final overheads and handouts must be received by July 15, 1995. A current version of a CE95 call for papers, panels and tutorials is available at: http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/ and information about CE94 and the proceedings is also available at the above URL. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reply to: Program Co-Chair (Panels and Tutorials) John W. Lewis GE Corporate Research and Development PO Box 8, Bldg KW, Rm C277 Schenectady, NY 12301 E-mail: lewisjw@crd.ge.com Telephone: (518) 387-5072, Fax: (518) 387-7080 ----------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ ----------------------------------- From molina@mansun.lut.ac.uk Thu Dec 8 18:40:43 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA07938; Thu, 8 Dec 94 18:40:43 CST Received: from mailhost.lut.ac.uk (bgate.lut.ac.uk [131.231.16.7]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA19711 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 1994 18:40:37 -0600 Received: from zipporah.mansun.lut.ac.uk by snow.mansun.lut.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03855; Fri, 9 Dec 94 00:37:04 GMT Date: Fri, 9 Dec 94 00:37:04 GMT From: molina@mansun.lut.ac.uk (A Molina) Message-Id: <9412090037.AA03855@snow.mansun.lut.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: BASYS'95 ============================================================================ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================================= BASYS'95 IEEE / ECLA / IFIP International Conference on Architectures and Design Methods for Balanced Automation Systems 24-26 July 1995 Vitoria, ES, Brazil SPONSORS : Commission of the European Community IEEE Robotics and Automation IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics IFIP WG 5.3 Technical co-sponsor: IEEE Control Systems Society Local sponsors: SBA - Sociedade Brasileira de Automatica AP3I - Associacao de Programas de Integracao e Informatica Industrial OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE Many international efforts are being carried out in the area of Integrated and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, with special emphasis on topics like Information Integration, Integrating Infrastructures, Standards and Reference Models, Intelligent Computer Aided Tools, etc.. In spite of some anthropocentric approaches, most initiatives point to high degrees of automation rarely compatible with the reality of Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) and with the social situation and the growing level of unemployment in developing countries. On the other hand, the globalization of the economy raises tough challenges to manufacturing companies, and particularly to SMEs, independentely of their geographical location. This event aims at providing a forum for presentation and discussion of results and approaches to architectures and design methods for balanced, viz. "appropriate" levels of automation, taking into account the social and economic context. Special emphasis is put on the strategies for migration from legacy systems. Discussion and presentation of international cooperative research and development experiences is also an important goal in the conference program. SUGGESTED TOPICS: Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -Modeling and evaluation techniques for manufacturing systems -Integrated information systems; standards -Architectures for systems integration -Federated architectures -Design methods for manufacturing systems -Implantation and migration techniques -Evolving to Computer Integrated Business -Anthropocentric approaches -Quality Management Issues -Industrial experiences Proposals for organizing invited sessions are also welcome. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee on basis of full papers. Four copies of full papers (up to 10 A4 pages), written in English, must be submitted to: Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre - 2825 Monte Caparica Portugal E-mail: cam@fct.unl.pt Fax: +351-1-2957786 The first page must provide the following information: Paper title, authors names and affiliation, address and E-mail of corresponding author, abstract. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 15 Jan 95 Acceptance: 15 Mar 95 Camera ready papers: 30 Mar 95 GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos New University of Lisbon, Portugal INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairperson: H. Afsarmanesh (University of Amsterdam), The Netherlands Co-Chairman: J.M. Ibarra (CINVESTAV), Mexico A. Alique (Instituto de Automatica Industrial), Spain L. Alonso Romero (Universidad de Valladolid), Spain M. Andrade Netto (Universidade de Campinas), Brazil L. Basanez (Universidad de Cataluna), Spain R. Bell (Loughborough University of Technology), UK R. Bernhardt (IPK), Germany P. Bernus (Griffiths University), Australia P. Borne (IEEE-SMC, Vice-President, Ecole Centrale de Lille), France M. Bosco (Commission of the European Community), Belgium A. Brandao-Moniz (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal J. Browne (University College Galway), Ireland L. M. Camarinha-Matos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal A. Campos Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Brazil R. Carelli (Universidad Nacional de San Juan), Argentina W. Cellary (Franco-Polish Institute), Poland P. Desruelles (Commission of the European Community), Belgium F. DiCesare (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), USA R. Dillman (University of Karlsruhe), Germany E. P. Ferreira (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo), Brasil F. G. Filip (Research Institute for Informatics), Romania M. S. Fox (University of Toronto), Canada T. Fukuda (Nagoya University), Japan N. Gindy (Nottingham University), UK J. Goossenaerts (UNU/IIST), Macau U. Graefe (Institute for Information Technology, NRC), Canada P. Groumpos (University of Patras), Greece W. A. Gruver (Simon Fraser University), Canada R. Gupta (General Electric Corporate R&D), USA K. Hasegawa (Tohin University of Yokohama), Japan J. A. Hendler (Maryland University), USA S. Heragu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), USA A. Jimenez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Spain M. Kamel (University of Waterloo), Canada D. Kochan (Technical University Dresden), Germany H. N. Koivo (Tampere University of Technology), Finland G. L. Kovacs (Computer & Automation Institute,H. Academy of Sciences), Hungary A. Kusiak (University of Iowa), USA V. Marik (Czech Technical University), Czech Republic Y. Matsuo (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Japan I. Mazon (Universidad de Costa Rica), Costa Rica M. E. Merchant (Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences), USA T. Mikami (NEC, IFIP TC5 Chairman), Japan P. E. Miyagi Universidade de Sao Paulo), Brazil A. Molina (Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey), Mexico F. Negreiros Gomes (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo), Brazil L. Nemes ( CSIRO,IFIP 5.3 Chairman], Australia G. J. Olling (Chrysler Corporation), USA E. Oliveira (Universidade do Porto), Portugal J. P. Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil M. Rillo (Universidade de Sao Paulo), Brazil H. Schneebeli (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo), Brazil M. Silva (Universidad de Zaragoza), Spain M. G. Singh (UMIST), UK J. Soliman (ISATA),UK M. W. Spong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IEEE-CSS), USA A. Steiger-Garcao Uninova), Portugal K. Takahashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Japan F. Vernadat (Universite de Bordeaux, GRAI), France G. Vossen ( Fachbereich Mathematik, University of GieBen), Germany R. Weston (Loughborough University of Technology), UK M. B. Zaremba (Universite de Quebec a Hull), Canada R. Zurawski (Swinburne University of Tecnhology), Australia ORGANIZED BY: -ECLA CIMIS.net and FlexSys projects. -Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo -Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chairman: F. Negreiros Gomes (BR) (Financial Sponsors) Co-chairman: P. E. Miyagi (BR) Co-chairman: E. P. Ferreira (BR) (Touristic Information) E. Batitucci (BR) (Accomodation) A. Gomes de Alvarenga (BR) (Financial Sponsors) B. Kranjc Alves (BR) A. L. Osorio (P) (Mailing List) H. Pinheiro-Pita (P) (Information Dissemination) R. Rabelo (P) (Information Dissemination) J. Reinaldo Silva (BR) A. Salles Garcia (BR) M. Sarcinelli Filho (BR) (Treasurer) H. Schneebeli (BR) C. Silva de Menezes (BR) CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Prof. Francisco Negreiros Gomes Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo Centro Tecnologico - Dept. Informatica Av. Fernando Ferrari s/n - Caixa Postal 01-9011 29060-970 Vitoria - ES BRAZIL E-mail: negreiro@inf.ufes.br Fax: +55-27-335-2650 Tel: +55-27-335-2667 or 2654 ==================================================================== GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Vitoria is the capital of Espirito Santo State. This state is surrounded by the states of Rio de Janeiro (at south), Bahia (at north), Minas Gerais (at west) and in the east is delimited by 400 km of Atlantic coast. Vitoria was founded in 1551 and it has over one million inhabitants. Vitoria is located over an island and it still preserves some of its colonial buildings. It has several international class hotels and restaurants, many night life activities, beautiful beaches that can be enjoyed all over the year. In the past the most part of economic activities of Vitoria were related with its harbor. In our days some industries are located in its neighborhood, in special steel industries. The southeastern part of the state has lovely beaches surrounded by granite stones forming hordes of small bays with warm and blue water. The northeastern is characterized by the open sea. The west of the state is surrounded by the Atlantic ridge covered by a tropical rain forest. In these mountains is easy to find humming birds, orchids and bromeliads. DISHES SPECIALTY Seafood dishes are the specialties of the state. The "Moqueca de peixe e camarao" (Spicy fish and shrimps stew) is a must that all visitants should try. WEATHER The temperature in July is around 22 degrees centigrade and, usually, it doesn't rain. CURRENCY The Brazilian currency is REAL (R$). Actually one REAL is 1.17 US$. Major credit cards are accept at hotels and restaurants. The holders of VISA and MASTER CARD can obtain cash advances from register banks. However, the use of foreign credit card is not get provided in the automatic teller machines. AIR CONNECTIONS Vitoria is connected to the other Brazilian cities by plane and by bus. All major Brazilians airlines fly to Vitoria. From Rio de Janeiro there are daily flights to Vitoria through the companies: VARIG, VASP and TRANSBRASIL. HOTELS We are trying to arrange special rates at Vitoria Hotels for the participants in BASYS'95. However, we advise the next list of hotels. The prices are in REAL and should be understood as an indicator value: Name Single Double Triple -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ilha do Boi - Senac (*****) 62 67 78 Porto do Sol (****) 64 72 85 Vitoria Palace (****) 35 41 49 Aruan (***) 45 56 72 Alvetur (***) 43 53 70 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOURIST INFORMATION The official Tourist Agency is CITUR - Cidade Turismo e Viagens Ltda Av. N. Sra. da Penha, 570 - Centro da Praia Shopping - Loja 32 Praia do Canto - Vitoria - Es - CEP 29059-900 Tel: + 55 - 27 - 227-5011 Fax: + 55 - 27 - 227-9246 They are able to organize your stay in Brazil. We intend to organize some tours during the period of the Conference. A complete program can be asked from Profa. Maria Christina Pedrosa Valli Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo Centro Tecnologico - Dept. Informatica Av. Fernando Ferrari s/n - Caixa Postal 01-9011 29060-970 Vitoria - ES BRAZIL E-mail: cvalli@inf.ufes.br Fax: +55-27-335-2650 Tel: +55-27-335-2667 or 2654 ========================================================================= REGISTRATION FORM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Name:___________________________________________________ | | | | Institution:____________________________________________ | | | | Address:________________________________________________ | | | | ________________________________________________________ | | | | E-mail:________________;Tel:____________;Fax:___________ | | | | IEEE Member n.________________; IFIP Member n.__________ | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: 1) Send this Registration Form to the Conference Secretariat Prof. Francisco Negreiros Gomes Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo Centro Tecnologico - Dept. Informatica Av. Fernando Ferrari s/n - Caixa Postal 01-9011 29060-970 Vitoria - ES BRAZIL E-mail: negreiro@inf.ufes.br Fax: +55-27-335-2650 Tel: +55-27-335-2667 or 2654 2) Only papers accompanied with the registration of their speakers will be published REGISTRATION FEE Before 30 April 95 After 30 April 95 Normal 200 US$ 250 US$ IEEE & IFIP Members 150 US$ 200 US$ The Payment should be made by check or money transfer to: Account Label: FCAA - BASYS'95 Account Number: 4238-2 Bank : Banco do Brasil S.A. Agency: 1400-1 (Jardim da Penha) Address: Rua Aristobolo Barbosa Leao 190 Jardim da Penha Vitoria-ES - Brazil ============================================================================ HJ Pinheiro-Pita UNINOVA - CRI Campus da FCT-UNL Quinta da Torre P-2825 Monte Caparica Tel:+351-1-350 02 28 direct line or +351-1-294 11 41 /294 1085 / 294 08 13 / 295 67 18 - ext. 228 Fax:+ 351-1-294 12 53 or 295 77 86 E-mail: hp@fct.unl.pt From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Fri Dec 16 14:11:56 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA20608; Fri, 16 Dec 94 14:11:56 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu [157.182.44.3]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA22442 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 1994 14:11:55 -0600 Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA28879; Fri, 16 Dec 94 15:11:54 EST From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Message-Id: <9412162011.AA28879@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Web* To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 15:11:53 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2132 Public Domain Software Release Notice WEB* Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University Morgantown West Virginia December 1994 The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) is placing Web* software developed under the auspices of (Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) grant no. MDA972-91-J-1022 and National Library of Medicine contract no. N01-LM-3-3525 in the public domain. Web* (WebStar) is an enabler to put information available in different information sources on the Web. This software will allow anyone trying to setup a Web server (HTTP server) to provide information which they have accessible programmatically but not in HTML format. Web* lets the publishing of dynamic information (HTML documents generated on the fly) on the net by providing a HTML template-driven scripting capability. With Web*, you can design a whole set of pages, devise complex user interaction, and isolate your information-providing applications from the stateless nature of the http protocol. Web* has an optional Orbix interface. Orbix is a CORBA-compliant software. Web* is part of the Information Sharing System being developed at CERC. Web* is a key enabler for the ARTEMIS (Advanced Research Testbed for Medical Informatics) project currently underway at CERC. As part of the ARTEMIS project, Patient Record information will be made available electronically to remote providers, wherever they are, using a Web client and a server using Web* and an Orbix interface to Oracle databases. Experimental trials of ARTEMIS, in a secured sub-network, with providers in Valley Health Systems in Huntington, West Virginia, are scheduled to begin in April 1995. Web* documentation, sources, and demonstrations can be accessed through the following URL: http://webstar.cerc.wvu.edu/. For additional information contact: almasi@cerc.wvu.edu or juggy@cerc.wvu.edu George Almasi or Juggy Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University 886 Chestnut Ridge Road P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: (304)293-7226 Fax: (304)293-7541 From goranson@snap.org Thu Dec 22 11:55:44 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA20519; Thu, 22 Dec 94 11:55:44 CST Received: from infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA16692 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 11:55:41 -0600 Received: from [198.22.1.131] by infi.net with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #13) id m0rKrkS-0008Y1C; Thu, 22 Dec 94 12:56 EST Date: Thu, 22 Dec 94 12:56 EST X-Sender: tedg@mailhost.infi.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: goranson@snap.org (Ted Goranson) Subject: A Meeting of Interest EI Friends, In a recent message, I indicated that NIST's ATP program was looking at funding an effort in the Virtual Enterprise. Nominally, Focused Programs are on the order of $100M. Here is an announcement of a workshop. Such workshops are the primary mechanism (together with white papers) that ATP uses to judge the appropriateness, merit and industry strength a program has. Best, Ted _______________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT Virtual Enterprise Working Group Meeting Hilton Hotel, San Jose, CA January 18, 1995 sponsored by the Agility Forum, the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I), the National Center for the Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), and Smart Valley, Inc., in support of the NIST Advanced Technology Program. _______________________________________________________ For several months, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP) has been working with industry to define a focused program which, if funded, would provide cost-share funding to industry to overcome technical barriers associated with the Virtual Enterprise paradigm. A workshop met in March 1994, at NCMS that resulted in one working paper. Others have developed additional working papers. There is, however, no well-defined, consensus set of technical thrusts around which an ATP might be constructed. The Virtual Enterprise Working Group will meet on January 18, 1995, at the San Jose Hilton Hotel and Towers, 300 Almaden Blvd., San Jose, CA., to develop a consensus on a recommended set of technical thrusts for an ATP focused program on virtual enterprise (VE). The tentative agenda is: 8:00 - 8:30: Registration/Continental Breakfast 8:30 - 9:00: Objectives of the Working Group Meeting 9:00 - 9:30: Working Paper from the March Workshop 9:30 - 10:00: Agile Virtual Enterprise Reference Base 10:00 - 10:30: A Silicon Valley Perspective on VE 10:30 - 10:50: Break 10:50 - 12:15: Identifying Key Technology Thrusts for VE (breakout sessions) - Infrastructure - Models for Integration - Applications - Data Structures, Models, Standards - The Human Interface 12:15 - 1:15: Lunch (provided) 1:15 - 2:15: General Discussion of Technology Thrusts 2:15 - 2:45: Brief Survey of Related Federal Programs 2:45 - 3:15: Break 3:15 - 4:15: Prioritization of Key Technology Thrusts for a VE ATP focused program (breakout sessions) 4:15 - 5:00: General Discussion of Priorities 5:00 - 5:30: Summarization, Establishment of Consensus, and Closure Attendees will be asked to volunteer to write or contribute to working papers that would explore each of the recommended technology thrusts in the full context of the ATP (good technical ideas, business case, need for ATP funding). These would contribute to a more widely publicized ATP Workshop that would be held in conjunction with the Agility Conference the first full week in March. The number of participants in the Working Group Meeting will be limited. To register, call Mary Ann Cockrell at 817/860-1654 (FAX: 817/275-6450; e-mail: mac@metronet.com). Registration fee will be $50.00, payable to 'CAM-I', and inclusive of lunch. For further information about the Working Group Meeting, contact Jim Jordan (408/253-0134; e-mail: jjordan@cup. portal.com). For further information about the proposed NIST ATP focused program, contact Barbara Goldstein (301/975-2304; e-mail: barbara@eeel.nist.gov). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .....| Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta | | .....| 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach VA 23457-1227 | ARoarABoaryAlice | .....| 804/426-6704, Fax 804/721-0781 | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From speyer@mcc.com Thu Dec 22 13:20:43 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA23047; Thu, 22 Dec 94 13:20:43 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com (turtle.mcc.com [128.62.1.215]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA17653 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:20:41 -0600 Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA06760; Thu, 22 Dec 94 13:20:40 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA14292; Thu, 22 Dec 94 13:20:39 CST Date: Thu, 22 Dec 94 13:20:39 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9412221920.AA14292@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Re: A Meeting of Interest In-Reply-To: Mail from 'goranson@snap.org (Ted Goranson)' dated: Thu, 22 Dec 94 12:01:09 CST goranson@snap.org (Ted Goranson) writes: >In a recent message, I indicated that NIST's ATP program was looking at >funding an effort in the Virtual Enterprise. Nominally, Focused Programs FYI, The reference message may be found at URL: http://galaxy.einet.net/hypermail/iceimt/0239.html From speyer@mcc.com Wed Dec 28 09:26:10 1994 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA01933; Wed, 28 Dec 94 09:26:10 CST Received: from turtle.mcc.com (turtle.mcc.com [128.62.1.215]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA15852 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 09:26:09 -0600 Received: from faith.mcc.com by turtle.mcc.com (4.1/isd-master_921116_15:19) id AA24495; Wed, 28 Dec 94 09:26:08 CST Received: by faith.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_920825_17:05) id AA01978; Wed, 28 Dec 94 09:26:07 CST Date: Wed, 28 Dec 94 09:26:07 CST From: speyer@mcc.com (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9412281526.AA01978@faith.mcc.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: corporate full circle The cover story on CIO (corporate information officer) mag read: Corporate Healing - How To Get Well Once The Reengineers Have Gone Home =8-)