larry@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Rowe) (02/16/89)
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