Jenny.Rowland@levels.sait.edu.au (04/11/91)
IJCAI-91 Workshop
AI Approaches to Production Planning:
Scheduling and Sequencing Tools
Call for Participation
Production planning is becoming the central focus for improvement in
performance by Western manufacturing companies. Increased emphasis on
delivery performance, customer satisfaction, total quality control and
inventory reduction are themes underlying Japanese and Korean successes
in manufacturing technology, that other industries must now match to
maintain competitive strategies. Production planning is a highly complex
activity that can benefit from AI approaches in developing tools to support,
optimise or automate planning functions. Flexible Manufacturing and Computer
Integrated Manufacturing are emerging approaches to production planning that
could benefit from exposure to AI methods and tools.
Two particular areas of production planning are targeted for this workshop.
Master Scheduling is concerned with materials and resource allocation,
particularly in job-shop situations where multiple production routes must be
allocated. Sequencing is concerned with ordering production through
single/multiple processes, particularly when optimising constraints must be
fulfilled by the generated sequence. The workshop will address key enabling
technologies that have or might be applied to CIM approaches to this area.
Format
We intend to limit attendance to roughly 30 participant. The format would
be a presentation session of 2 hours duration for the presentation of around
8 - 10 short (10-15 minutes) papers describing either industry based tools
in use or under development, or academic research programs with application
to the area. We then propose a 1 hour open forum on industry directions,
to be chaired by the organizing committee. Proceedings will be published,
and a review of the workshop should be published in a relevant journal.
This call for participation solicits persons interested in the area of
production planning to indicate interest either to attend the workshop, or
to present a paper at the workshop. Note that abstracts may be submitted by
May 15th, however camera-ready copy needs to be submitted by Jun 30th to
allow for the preparation of proceedings prior to the conference. Please
submit both hard copy and electronic versions of the papers.
Date Saturday, August 24th. 1pm - 4pm
Calendar
May 15 Deadline for indicating interest to attend workshop
May 15 Deadline for submission of papers/Extended abstracts
Jun 1 Notification date for participants' acceptance to w'shop
Jun 30 Final Deadline for revised camera-ready papers
Jul 15 Deadline for registration fee ($65) sent to IJCAI.
Contact
Steve Garlick
Industrial Engineering
BHP Research - Newcastle Labs
PO Box 188, Wallsend
NSW, Australia, 2287
steveg@venus.crl.bhp.com.au
NB. Please circulate this Call for Participation to interested other parties