Call for Papers 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems

WFCS'2000 General Co-Chairmen Eduardo Tovar Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4000-072 Porto, Portugal Phone: (+351)228340529 Fax: (+351)228321159 E-mail: emt@dei.isep.ipp.pt 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'2000 Steering Committee J-D.Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Josep Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain Guy Juanole, LAAS, Toulouse, France Richard Zurawski, JSISA, Concord, USA WFCS'2000 Program Co-Chairmen Guy Juanole, LAAS, Toulouse, France Francisco Vasques, FEUP, Porto, Portugal Program Committee L. Almeida, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal I. Bate, Univ. of York, UK G. Buttazzo, Univ. Pavia, Italy S. Cavalieri, Univ. of Catania, Italy F. Cottet, ENSMA, Poitiers, France J. Cooling, Univ. of Loughborough, UK J-D. Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland D. Dietrich, TU Wien, Austria G. Fohler, Mälardalen Univ., Sweden J. Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain J-C. Gregoire, INRS-Telecom, Canada W. Halang, FernUniversität, Germany H. Hansson, Mälardalen Univ., Sweden Z. Hanzalek, CTU, Prague, Czech Rep. H. Kopetz, TU Wien, Austria S. Koubias, Univ. Patras, Greece W. H. Kwon, SNU, Seoul, S. Korea Z. Mammeri, UPS, Toulouse, France M. Marcos, UPV, Bilbao, Spain R. Montes, CINVESTA, Guadalajara, Mexico P. Neumann, IFAK, Barleben, Germany H. S. Park, Kangwon Univ., S. Korea C. Pereira, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil J. Santos, Univ. del Sur, Argentina T. Sauter, TU Wien, Austria V. Sempere, UPV, Valencia, Spain K. Shin, Univ. of Michigan, USA J.P. Thomesse, INPL, Nancy, France E. Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Porto, Portugal R. Tuokko, Tempere University, Finland A. Valenzano, Politecnico de Torino, Italy P. Verissimo, FCUL, Lisbon, Portugal M. Wollschlaeger, U. Magdeburg, Germany R. Zurawsky, JSISA, Concord, USA WFCS'2000 WIP Co-Chairmen L. Almeida, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal T. Sauter, TU Wien, Austria WFCS'2000 Industry Liaison Co-Chairmen J. Fonseca, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal E. Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Portugal WFCS'2000 Organizing Committee Finance: Luís Ferreira, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Publications: Miguel Pinho, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Publicity: Filipe Pacheco, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Registration: Mário Alves, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Local Arrangements: Berta Batista, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Secretariat: Ana Costa, ISEP-IPP, Portugal				September 6-8, 2000 Polytechnic Institute of Porto - ISEP, Porto, Portugal Sponsored by: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and Polytechnic Institute of Porto - ISEP 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. Workshop topics: Real-time communication and applications Fieldbus networks Dependable communication and applications Cell networks Communications and applications modeling High speed networks Multimedia communication support Building automation networks Distributed application platforms (CORBA, Java/Jini, etc.) Wireless networks Internetworking, interoperability Embedded networks Configuration tools and network management Intranet and internet access Factory applications and case studies Submission of Papers The working language of the conference is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a pdf or postscript version of the full paper by e-mail to: Francisco Vasques DEMEGI - FEUP, R. dos Bragas, 4050-123 Porto, Portugal Tel: (+351) 222041751; Fax: (+351)222074241; Email: vasques@fe.up.pt If e-mail submission is not possible, sending five hard copies of the full paper is also acceptable. 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: Luís Almeida (lda@det.ua.pt) or Thilo Sauter (sauter@ict.tuwien.ac.at). 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. Author's Schedule: Please check out the Important Dates for the new deadlines