liu@demon.siemens.com (Peiya Liu) (05/09/91)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
8th INIERNATIONL CONFERENCE ON CAD/CAM,
ROBOTICS AND FACTORIES OF FUTURE
17th-18th-19th AUGUST 1992
UNIVERSITY OF METZ - FRANCE
Sponsord by
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT(ISPE), USA
and tho following organizations:
Conseil Regional de Lorraine
Universite de Metz
I Iniversite de Nancu
Institut d'Administration des Entreprises International
Ecole Superieure d'Electricite - Metz
INRIA
ILOG- Pans
ESIDEC
The theme of the 8th International CARS & FOF Conference will be C4
(CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM) Integration, Robotics and System Automation
for improved productivity and cost containment.
The main objective of this 8th Conference is to bring together
researchers and practitioners from government, industries and academia
interested in the multi-disciplinary and inter-organizational
productivity aspects of advanced manufacturing systems
utilizing CAD/CAM, CAE, CIM, Parametrics Technology, AI, Robotics,
Factories of the Future, AGV Technology and to address productivity
enhancement issues.
SCOPE
The main areas of interests include, but are not limited to:
KNOWLEDGE LEVEL MODELING APPROACH TO PROBLEM SOLVING:
The section will provide a forum for research results in
identifying knowledge level ingredients and providing models
to build up open problem-solving architectures in following
relevant topics(but are not limited to):
Next-generation expert system development methodology,
CAD/CAM, CAE, CIM design methodology,
Domain-specific user modeling,
Information system modeling,
System level design methodology for intelligent software,
Knowledge acquisition and explanation at knowledge level.
CAED:
CAD, CAT, FEM, Kinematics, Dynamics, Simulation, Analysis,
Computer Graphics, Off-Line Programming
CIM:
CAD/CAM, CNC/DNC, FMS, AGV, Integration of CNC, Interactions
between Robotics Control, Vision, AI Machine Intelligence and other
automation equipment and Communications Standards.
DESIGN/BUILD AUTOMATION:
Parametric Programming, Design, Sensitivity,
Optimization, Variational Geometry, Generic Modelling, Identification,
Design Automation, Value Engineering, Art to Part, Quality, Cost
&Productivity, Layout of Manufacturing Systems
KNOWLEDGE AUTOMATION: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems
ROBOTICS:
Mechanical Design, Control, Trajectory Planning, Mobility,
End Effecters, Maintenance, Sensory Devices, Work Cells, Applications,
Testing and Standardization
FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE:
Planning of Automation, Management, Organization,
Accounting, Plant Design, Informative Systems, Productivity Issues,
Socioeconomic Issues, Education, Seminars and Training
Conference Proceedings
Conference Proceedings will be published in a book by Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, Germany
Information about authors
Three copies, in English, of the intended contribution (200 words
approximately) should be sent to one of the persons at
following addresses:
Peiya Liu
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc
755 College Road East,
Princeton, NJ 08540,
USA
Tel: (609) 734 3349
Fax:(609) 734 6565
e-mail: liu@siemens.com
Docteur J.-M. PROTH
INRIA LORRAINE Technopole Metz 2000
4, rue Marconi
57070 METZ
FRANCE
Fax: (33) 87 76 39 77
Tel: (33) 87 20 35 00
An abstract should contain the title of the paper, full names and addresses
of all authors, objectives, methods and significance of the reported results.
The final acceptance will be based on full papers. The important dates are
Abstract due date: 30th June 1991
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 31th July 1991
Receipt of full papers: 15th October 1991
Notification of full paper acceptance: 15th December 1991
Camera Ready Manuscript due date: 31th January 1992