larry@xanadu.berkeley.edu (Larry Rowe) (02/24/89)
Second International Conference on Data and Knowledge
Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering
Call for Papers and Participation
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