[comp.databases] 2nd Int. Conf. on Data and Knowledge Sys. for Manuf. and Eng.

larry@XANADU.BERKELEY.EDU (Larry Rowe) (02/21/89)

             Call for Papers and Participation

   Second International Conference on Data and Knowledge
         Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering

Dates: October 16-18 1989         Location: Gaithersburg, MD

Sponsored by: ACM SIGMOD  
	      IEEE Computer Society Data Engineering TC

The International Conference on Data and  Knowledge  Systems
for   Manufacturing   and  Engineering  (DKSME)  will  bring
together leading researchers and engineers who  are  working
on  software  and  hardware  systems  to improve engineering
design and manufacturing.  Database  management  and  expert
systems  are  key technologies to improving productivity and
reducing costs of manufacturing.  The conference will  bring
together people from industry working on real-world problems
and researchers developing new results on manufacturing  and
engineering  system methodologies and technologies.  General
topics of  interest  include  computer-aided  design  (CAD),
computer-assisted   manufacturing   (CAM),   and   computer-
integrated manufacturing (CIM).

The conference will include tutorials, practitioner  presen-
tations,  and  research presentations.  Tutorial topics will
include:  heterogeneous   distributed   databases,   object-
oriented database systems, expert systems for manufacturing,
and CIM systems.  Vendors and practitioners are  invited  to
give  a technical presentation describing their systems in a
practitioner's track.  Researchers  are  invited  to  submit
original  research  papers  that  will  be  published in the
conference proceedings to the research track.

                           TOPICS

CAD (data models for  geometric  modeling,  version  control
systems, and engineering data types)

CAM  (manufacturing  equipment  and  process   specification
languages)

CIM (work-in-progress database designs, in-process data col-
lection  and  analysis, factory models, equipment connection
protocols, and factory control systems)

Expert Systems (real-world factory case  studies,  knowledge
acquisition,  and  reasoning  in  manufacturing  and  design
knowledge-bases).

Real-Time Systems (real-time support for distributed systems
and on-line transaction systems)

User-Interfaces (multimedia interfaces,  voice  input/output
applications, and graphical interfaces)

Product Lifecycle Management (product design and manufactur-
ing specification management and test data management)

                      PAPER SUBMISSION

Research papers should be less than 25 pages  double-spaced.
Send 5 copies of the paper by April 17, 1989 to the research
track chair:

    Fred Maryanski
    DKSME '89 Program Chair
    CSE Department, U-155
    University of Connecticut
    Storrs, CT 06268
    phone: 203-486-2584
    email: fred@uconn.cs.net

Practitioner presentation proposals should be brief descrip-
tions of the proposed presentation.  Send 1 copy of the pro-
posal by April 17, 1989 to the practitioners track chair:

    Dan Wolfson
    Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
    105 College Road East
    Princeton, NJ 08540
    phone: 609-734-6535
    email: dw@siemens.com