[comp.ai.digest] Conferences - Production Planning, Control & ICALP '87

E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET (Leff, Southern Methodist University) (05/04/87)

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Expert Systems and the Leading Edge in Production Planning and Control
May 10-13, Charleston, South Carolina

Keynote Addresses

"Managing Knowledge for Production Planning"
  Thomas Kehler, Chairman, Intellicorp
"Integration of Manufacturing Policy and Corporate Strategy with the
Aid of Decision Support Systems"
  Gabriel Bitran, Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management,
  Massachusetts Institutes of Technology

May 11

Tutorial I-- Production Planning and Control
  William Berry, University of Iowa
  Lee Krajewski, Ohio State University
Tutorial II _ Knowledge-based Expert Systems: Theory and Practice
  Mark Fox, Director, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon
  University

May 12

Keynote Address
  Tracy O'Rouke, President, The Allen Bradley Company

JIT - Then AI
  James Butcher, Materials Control Manager, 3M Corporation
Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
  Kathy Stecke, Operations Management, University of Michigan
Factor Representaiton and Design
  Ed Fisher, Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State U.
Exploiting Group Technology in Expert Process Designers
  Bruce Johnson, Partner in Charge of Ai, Arthur Anderson
Knowledge-based and Collaborative Design Tools
  Sanjay Mittal, Xerox University

An Intelligent Decision Support System for Integrated Distribution Planning
  Darwin Klingman and Nancy Phillips,
  MIS and Information Systems, University of Texas-Austin
Knowledge-based Simulation and Manufacturing
  John Kuntz, Senior Knowledge Systems Engineer, Intellicorp
Panel Discussion:
Integrating Planning Frontiers
  Ed Davis, University of Virginia, Jim L. Goedhart, GE Calma
Integration of People, Automation and Computers in Job-Shop Electronics
  John Lorei, Manager, Computer INtegrated Manufacturing Rockwell
  International
Manufacturing Planning Systems for the 1990s
  Thomas Vollman, Department of Operations Management, Boston University
  Merrill Ebner, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University
Artificially Intelligent Tools for Manufacturing Process Planners
  Karl Kempf, Senior Computer Scientist, FMC
Panel Discussions:
Workshops in Aerospace Applications for AI, Textile Technology,
Scheduling Applications, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Product Design
Systems, Advanced Automation (AI and OR)

May 13

Keynote: Rapid Prototyping for Expert Systems
  Brian Gaines, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary

Production Control Issues and Challenges
  Steve Melnyk, Management, Michigan State University
FMS Producitoon Planning and Control Problems
  Kathy STecke, University of Michigan
From the ARMF to the Factory of the Future: AI Tools in Process and
Production Planning and Control
  Dennis Swyt, Deputy Director, National Bureau of STandards
Using Knowledge Technology to Gain a Competitive Advantage in
Manufacturing
  Neil Cahill, Vice President, Manufacturing Technology, Institute of
  Textile Technology
Knowlege-Based Process Management Applications
  Michael Fehling, Principal Scientist, Rockwell Science Center
Panel Discussion
Scheduling Research: Past, Present, Future
  William L. Maxwell, Cornell University
KNowledge-Based Scheduling Systems
  Jack Kanet, Clemson University
Knoweldge-Based Scheduling and Resource Allocation in the CAMPS Architecture
  Richard Brown, MITRE Corporatio/n
A Knowledge Based Framework for Reactive Management of Factory Schedules
  Steve Smith, Intelligent Systems Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Panel Discussion
Closing  Session

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ICALP 87, July 13-17, 1987, Karlsruhe, West  Germany

July 13

Invited Lecture, Recent Developments in the Theory of Learning,
  L. Valiant, Harvard University
Probability and Plurality for Aggregations of Learning Machines,
  L. Pitt (University of Illinois), C. H. Smith (University of Maryland)
Inverse Image Analyse
  P. Dybjer, University of Goteborg
A Unification Algorithm for Confluent Theories
  S. Holldobler, Universitat der Bundeswehr, Munchen
On the Knuth Bendix Completion for Concurrent Processes
  V. Diekert, Technische Universitat Munchen
On Word Problems in Equational Theories
  J. Hsiang, State University of New York, M. Rusinowitch, CRIN, Vandoeuvre-les-
  Nancy
Semantics for nondeterministic, Asynchronous Broadcast Networks
  R. K. Shyamasundar, K. T. Narayana, T. Pitassi, Pennsylvania State University
Another Look at Abstraction in Process Algebra
  J. C. M. Baeten, University of Amsterdam, R. J. van Glabeek, Centre of
  Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam

July 14

Computation Tree Logic CTL* and Path Quantifiers in the MOnadic Theory of
the Binary Tree,
  T. Hafer, W. Thomas, RWTH Aachen
Modelchecking of CTL Formulae under Liveness Assumptions
  B. Josko, RWTH Aachen
A Model Logic for a Subclass of Event Structures
  K. Lodaya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay
  P. S. Thiagarajan, Aarhus University
Term Matching on Parallel Computers
  R. Ramesh, R. M. Verma, T. Krishnaprasad, I. V. Ramakrishnan, SUNY, New York

July 17

Invited Lecture: The Geometry of Robot Motion Planning
  J. Schwartz, New York University



  Nancy Phillips, Associate Profesor, Department of MIS