Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:09:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: Prolamat 98: First Announcement and CFP
>> From: Prolamat 1998 <prolamat_owner@lii.unitn.it>
The Tenth International IFIP TC5 WG-5.2 WG-5.3 Conference
PROLAMAT '98
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The Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era
of the 21st Century: Innovation, Agility, and the Virtual Enterprise
Conference date and venue: September 9-11, 1998 - Trento, Italy
>> First Announcement and Call for Papers <<
Abstracts Due: November 10, 1997
Acceptance Notification: December 20, 1997
Camera ready Paper Due: April 30, 1998
Please show interest in contributing to PROLAMAT '98
using attached form by: September 30, 1997
The conference scope of PROLAMAT '98 expands design and manifacturing
issues to include teams and virtual enterprises which come together
across space and time to develop new products and bring them to global
markets. Manufacturing issues and information models have long been
part of concurrent engineering; they are increasingly important in
new product innovation and in the development of manufacturing plans
and processes which span multiple companies along with multiple time
zones.
Past emphasis on human aspects and innovation provides a strong
foundation for the next PROLAMAT, which emphasizes three themes in
separate tracks of the conference:
Track 1: Sharing experience gained from telecommunication use in
industry for agility and innovation
Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard
representations, reuse
Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology
for discrete manufacturing
Background
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The PROLAMAT conference is an internationally well known event for
demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of
discrete manufacturing. Sponsored by the International Federation for
Information Processing (IFIP), the PROLAMAT is traditionally held every
three years and it includes the whole area of advanced software
technology for Design and Manufacturing in Discrete Manufacturing.
Past conferences have explored:
- Manufacturing Technology,
- Advances in CAD/CAM,
- Software for Discrete Manufacturing,
- Software for Manufacturing.
The Eight International PROLAMAT focused on the theme of Man in CIM.
The 1995 PROLAMAT featured the theme of Life Cycle Modelling for
Innovative Products and Processes.
The 1998 conference in Italy will be organized by the University of
Trento, School of Engineeering and Department of Computer and
Managemet Sciences, jointly with Istituto Trentino di Cultura, under
the auspices of the WG2 for "Computer-Aided Design" and WG3 for
"Computer-Aided Manufacturing" of the Technical Committee 5 for
"Computer Applications in Technology". This conference will be the
last PROLAMAT before the next century, and it provides an opportunity
to investigate and imagine what the digital communications revolution
going on all around us will mean for manufacturing.
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Conference Subjects
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Track 1: Sharing experience from telecommunication use in industry for
-------- agility and innovation
Globalization of product opportunities and manufacturing processes,
along with advances in digital communications, are simultaneously
enabling and demanding agility and rapid enterprise innovation. A number
of industries have been driven to exploit emerging telecommunication
technologies as an important tool for meeting these demands.
A major goal of this conference will be to complement the more
traditional academic presentations with a separate track devoted to
sharing industry experience and determining the implications of the
emerging digital communications era for discrete manufacturing in the
21st century.
- Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging
technologies for:
- concurrent engineering involving shared product and process models,
- applications of telecommunications for agility, innovation or
virtual organizations,
- distributed business process reengineering and out sourcing,
- managing virtual teams and developing and sustaining virtual
organizations,
- Advances in telecommunication technology for collaborative knowledge
processing for engineering
- tele-presence, remote sensing, and distributed coordination of
processes,
- collaborative feature modelling, feature-based design, and geometric
modelling
- Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing product
development
- collaborative version management and update sharing
- tools for enterprise integration and managing organizational change
- enterprise-wide distribution and coordination of emerging product
models.
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Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard
-------- representations, reuse
People, not machines, design new products and make manufacturing systems
work. Increasingly, groups of people are required to design new products
and bring them to market. Requirements for agility and the suitability
of specific manufacturing processes must be matched with the culture
and knowledge base of the work force.
World-class processes have floundered when this was not done.
Information and communication systems can either amplify or reduce the
magnitude of differences across culture or engineering discipline.
Researchers specializing in knowledge representation, modelling,
communications, standardization, and reuse will be invited to share
their experiences and research perspectives.
- Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain
boundaries,
- distributed manufacturing and supply chain management
- early stage product development which dynamically incorporates
supplier constraints
- standard models for component information representation, product
and process interchange,
- Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the
product lifecycle,
- adaptive systems for organizational management, knowledge sharing,
education, and training
- organizational and manufacturing process simulation
- organizing and representing design and manufacturing process for
dissemination and reuse
- The interface between human and machine for information sharing,
training, education,
- virtual reality and multi-media in manufacturing and design
- collaborative manufacturing process definition and operation
- collaborative product and process modeling for the product life
cycle
- implications of models of human communication for the support of
integrated manufacturing
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Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for
-------- discrete manufacturing
Even in today's post-industrial information-society, machines, not
people, ultimately make the products which humans have designed and
will use. Digital telecommunication has become an enabling technology
for agile organizations and an important tool driving some enterprise
innovation. What are the implications of these profound changes in
communications technology for discrete manufacturing? Which old
assumptions must be rethought, and what totally new opportunities now
exist? How have software tools for discrete manufacturing evolved
during these past three years? The conference, as a whole, and this
track, in particular, will attempt to answer these far reaching
questions.
- Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed
manufacturing,
- concurrent and simultaneous engineering systems
- distributed and global methodologies for design and collaborative
manufacturing
- Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across
institutional boundaries for
- automated machining operations,
- scheduling, coordination, or planning for machining or manufacturing
processes,
- Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated
manufacturing,
- formal design theories and methodologies
- engineering simulation, product and process modelling, planning, and
scheduling
- Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing
- methods and tools for sustainable product development and
manufacturing processes
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Conference Chair: G. Jacucci
Invited Members to the
International Program Committee
L. Alting (DK) S. Ansaldi (I) A. Baskin (USA)
P. Bertok (AUS) S. Bhattacharyya (UK) O. Biorke (N)
K. Bo (N) M. Boari (I) G. Bracchi (I)
D. Brown (USA) L. Camarinha-Matos (P) L. Carlucci Aiello (I)
B-K. Choi (K) G. Christensen (DK) C. Ciborra (F)
E. Ciciotti (I) U. Claussen (D) J-P. Crestin (F)
U. Cugini (I) B. David (F) C. Davies (UK)
Z. Deng (N) C. Dent (UK) I. St.Doltsinis (D)
G. Doumeingts (F) W. Ehrenberger (D) J.L. Encarnacao (D)
L. Estensen (N) K. Fedra (A) S. Finger (USA)
F. Gambarotta (I) J. Gero (AUS) R. Geudj (F)
P. Gili (I) B. Girard (F) F. Giunchiglia (I)
H. Grabowski (D) U. Graefe (C ) G. Guida (I)
G. Halevy (ISR) J. Hardy (USA) J.M. Hee (DK)
G. Hermann (H) B. Hofmaier (SW) T. Holden (UK)
G. Jacucci (I), Chair H. Jansen (D) C.C. Kai (SP)
F. Kimura (J) T. Kjellberg (S) D. Kochan (D)
G. Kovacs (H) Z. Kozar (CZ) F-L. Krause (D)
J. Latombe (USA) G. Lazzari (I) R. Levi (I)
F. Lillenhagen (N) W. Loeve (NL) S. Lu (USA)
K. MacLaughlin (USA) R. Manara (I) M. Mantyla (SF)
A. Markus (H) T. Markus (H) R. Mayer (USA)
G. Menga (I) E. Merchant (USA) J. Mermet (F)
I. Mezgar (H) R. Michelini (I) G. Micheletti (I)
V. Milacic (YU) P. Mudur (IND) G. Musso (I)
L. Nemes (AUS) R. Ning (PRC) S. Nof (USA)
S. Noll (D) G. Olling (USA) T. Otker (NL)
M. Pallot (F) K. Pawar (UK) J. Peklenik (SL)
G. Perrone (I) F. Plonka (USA) V. Ponomaryov (Rus)
M. Pratt (UK) K. Preiss (ISR) F. Prinz (USA)
B. Radig (D) F. Rigotti (I) J. Rix (D)
F. Robson (UK) C. Rosenthal (USA) M. Sabin (UK)
A. Sambura (AUS) T. Sata (J) D. Schelfi (I)
J. Schneider (USA) G. Seliger(D) O. Semenkov (BJ)
M. Shpitalni (ISR) D.L. Shunk (USA) R. Soenen (F)
O. Stock (I) A. Storr (D) J.C. Teixeira (P)
P. ten Hagen (NL) V. Tipnis (USA) P. Tiribelli (I)
N. Todorov (BG) T. Tomiyama (J) M. Tomljanovich (I)
E. Tyugu (S) H. van Brussel (B) F. van Houten (NL)
G. Vernazza (I) M. Veron (F) A. Villa (I)
R. Vio (I) M. Waldron (USA) K. Wang(PRC)
E. Warman (UK) M. Wozny (USA) H. Yoshikawa (J)
R. Zandonini (I) E. Zaninotto (I) A. Zorat (I)
R. Zuest (CH)
Submission Information
Extended abstracts of two pages, written in English, should be
e-mailed to prolamat@lii.unitn.it by November 10, 1997. Accepted
formats are text only, Word attachment or Latex attachment. Abstracts
will present an additional cover sheet providing title, all authors
with affiliation, the full address of the principal author (with
phone, fax numbers and e-mail address) and a list of keywords related
to the paper contents.
The Extended Abstracts will be reviewed by three referees for inclusion
in the Conference Program. Accepted contributions will be published in
the Conference Proceedings by Chapman & Hall.
Format requirements from Chapman & Hall for the preparation of the
camera-ready article, will be sent to the authors in due course.
Conference Organizing Committee
V. D'Andrea, University of Trento, (I)
Y. Ficiciyan, IPK Berlin (D)
E. Filos, European Commission, DGIII, (B)
M. Marchese, University of Trento, (I) Chair
M. Ronchetti, University of Trento, (I)
G. Salvatori, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, (I)
A. Servida, European Commission, DGXIII, (B)
Official Language: English
Contact Information:
contact: Mara Gruber
e-mail: prolamat@lii.unitn.it
phone: +39.464.443.134
+39.464.443.140
fax: +39.464.443.141
www: http://www.lii.unitn.it/prolamat/
mail: Laboratorio di Ingegneria Informatica
via F. Zeni, 8
38068 - Rovereto (TN)
Italy
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IFIP International Conference PROLAMAT '98
The Globalization of Manufacturing in the digital communication era
of the 21st century: Innovation, Agility and Virtual Enterprise
September 9-11, 1998 Trento
Name: ...........
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I am interested in receiving further notices on PROLAMAT '98.
[ ] I am also interested in contributing a paper:
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The paper will touch upon the following topics:
Track 1: Experience using telecom for agility and product/process
innovation;
[ ] Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging
technologies for:
[ ] Advances in telecom technology for collaborative knowledge
processing for engineering
[ ] Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing
produt development
Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard
representations, reuse
[ ] Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply
chain boundaries,
[ ] Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across
the product life cycle
[ ] The interface between human and machine for information sharing
training, aducation
Track 3: Telecom and agility impact on software technology for
discrete manufacturing
[ ] Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or
distributed manufacturing,
[ ] Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or
across institutional boundaries for :
[ ] Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated
manufacturing
[ ] Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing
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