Call for Papers 4th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems ==================================================================== August 27-30, 2002 Västerås, Sweden http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/wfcs2002 Aim: The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia involved in the area of factory communication systems. Focus: Real-time issues in factory communications: message scheduling, distributed application support; Dependability issues in factory communications: safety, security, availability and reliability; Formal description techniques for the verification, validation and test of factory communication systems; The integration of the emerging information technologies with the factory communication systems; Communication aspects in factory system design and architecture. Workshop topics: =========================================== - Real-time communication and applications - Fieldbus networks - Dependable communication and applications - Cell networks - Communications and applications modeling - Multimedia communication support - High speed networks - Distributed application platforms (CORBA, Java/Jini, etc.) - Building automation networks - Internetworking, interoperability - Wireless networks - Configuration tools and network management - Embedded networks - Intranet and internet access - Component based design of factory systems - Software and System Architectures for factory systems - Factory applications and case studies Submission of Papers ===================== Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a pdf or postscript version of the full paper by e-mail to: wfcs2002@idt.mdh.se If e-mail submission is not possible, sending five hard copies of the full paper is also acceptable. The address is WFCS'2002 MRTC, P.O. Box 883, SE-721 23 Västerås, Sweden Tel: (+46) 70 4912288 Fax: (+46)21 103110 Additionally, an abstract of up to 150 words must also be sent, to the same e-mail address. Submissions should be formatted as follows: First page: title, authors, mailing and e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers and preferred workshop topic. Second and succeeding pages: Paper manuscript limited to 20 pages (at least 1-½ spaced, in a font no smaller than 11-point). A special Work in Progress (WIP) session will be organized. This session is mainly intended for presentation of on-going work. Accepted papers will not be included in the workshop proceedings, instead they will be published through the WWW and in specific WIP proceedings. Submissions in the above areas should be sent in the IEEE double column format (not exceeding 4 pages) by e-mail to one of the WIP Session Co-Chairmen. Paper Acceptance: Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The final manuscript must be accompanied by the registration form and also by a proof of the registration fee payment. All conference attendees, including authors and session chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee, and their travel expenses. Deadline for submission of papers: April 1st, 2002 ==================================================================== WFCS'2002 General Co-Chairmen ============================================ Christer Norström Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre P.O. Box 883 SE-721 23 Västerås, Sweden Fax: (+46)21 103110 E-mail: christer.norstrom@mdh.se Richard Zurawski Industrial and Societal Automation Corporation 780 Oak Grove Road, Suite D108 Concord, CA, 94518, U.S.A. Phone: (+1.925)6099118 Fax: (+1.925)6825517 E-mail: zurawski@jsisa.com WFCS'2002 Steering Committee =========================================== J-D.Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Josep Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain Guy Juanole, LAAS, Toulouse, France Eduardo Tovar, IPPP, Porto, Portugal Richard Zurawski, JSISA, Concord, USA WFCS'2002 Program Chairman ============================================ Hans A Hansson, MRTC, Västerås, Sweden E-mail: hans.hansson@mdh.se Program Committee ============================================ Luis Almeida, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal Peter Altenbernd, C-Lab, Germany Iain Bate, Univ of York, UK Mats Björkman MRTC, MdH, Sweden Gianluca Cena, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Francis Cottet, ENSMA, France Ivica Crnkovic, MRTC, MdH, Sweden Rob Davies, York, UK J-D. Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Dietmar Dietrich, TU Wien, Austria Lucia Franco, EFEI, Brazil Pep Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain Magnus Jonsson, CCA, HH, Sweden Guy Juanole, LAAS, France Joerg Kaiser, University of Ulm, Germany Wook Hyun Kwon, SNU, S. Korea Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy Marga Marcos Muños, ESIB, Spain Michael Mock, GMD, Germany Peter Neumann, IFAK, Germany Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist Univ Carlos Pereira, UFRGS, Brazil Thilo Sauter, TU Wien, Austria Vitor Sempere, UPV, Spain Sejun Song, CISCO, USA Jean-Pierre Thomesse, INPL, Nancy, France Eduardo Tovar, ISEPP-IPP, Porto, Portugal Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, USA Francisco Vasques, Univ. of Porto, Portugal Paulo Verissimo, FCUL, Lisbon, Portugal Per-Arne Wiberg, CCA, HH, Sweden Martin Wollschlaeger, IFAK, Germany Christian Zeidler, ABB, Germany Richard Zurawski, JSISA, Concord, USA WFCS'2002 WIP Co-Chairmen ======================================= Eduardo Tovar, IPP, Porto, Portugal E-mail: emt@dei.isep.ipp.pt Mats Björkman, MRTC, Västerås, Sweden E-mail: Mats.Bjorkman@mdh.se WFCS'2002 Publicity Chair Eduardo Tovar, IPP, Porto, Portugal