[comp.robotics] CALL FOR PAPERS-- 1992 CAR&FOF

liu@demon.siemens.com (Peiya Liu) (05/10/91)

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS



              8th INIERNATIONL CONFERENCE ON CAD/CAM,
                 ROBOTICS AND FACTORIES OF FUTURE
                    17th-18th-19th AUGUST 1992
    
                       UNIVERSITY OF METZ - FRANCE

Sponsord by
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY  FOR PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT(ISPE), USA 
and tho following organizations:
Conseil Regional de Lorraine
Universite de Metz
I Iniversite de Nancu
Institut d'Administration des Entreprises International
Ecole Superieure d'Electricite - Metz
INRIA
ILOG- Pans
ESIDEC

The theme of the 8th International CARS & FOF Conference will be C4
 (CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM) Integration, Robotics and System Automation 
for improved productivity and cost containment.
The main objective of this 8th Conference is to bring together
 researchers and practitioners from government, industries and academia
 interested in the multi-disciplinary and inter-organizational 
productivity aspects of advanced manufacturing systems
 utilizing CAD/CAM, CAE, CIM, Parametrics Technology, AI, Robotics,
 Factories of the Future, AGV Technology and to address productivity
 enhancement issues.



SCOPE
 The main areas of interests include, but are not limited to:


KNOWLEDGE LEVEL MODELING APPROACH TO PROBLEM SOLVING:
       The section will provide a forum for research results in
       identifying knowledge level ingredients and providing models
        to build up open problem-solving architectures in following
       relevant topics(but are not limited to):
        Next-generation expert system development methodology,
        CAD/CAM, CAE, CIM design methodology,
        Domain-specific user modeling,
        Information system modeling,
        System level design methodology for intelligent software,
        Knowledge acquisition and explanation at knowledge level.


CAED:
    CAD, CAT, FEM, Kinematics, Dynamics, Simulation, Analysis, 
    Computer Graphics, Off-Line Programming

CIM: 
    CAD/CAM, CNC/DNC, FMS, AGV, Integration of CNC, Interactions 
    between Robotics Control, Vision, AI Machine Intelligence and other
    automation equipment and Communications Standards.

DESIGN/BUILD AUTOMATION:
   Parametric Programming, Design, Sensitivity,
   Optimization, Variational Geometry, Generic Modelling, Identification,
   Design Automation, Value Engineering, Art to Part, Quality, Cost
   &Productivity, Layout of Manufacturing Systems

KNOWLEDGE AUTOMATION: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems

ROBOTICS: 
   Mechanical Design, Control, Trajectory Planning, Mobility,
   End Effecters, Maintenance, Sensory Devices, Work Cells, Applications,
   Testing and Standardization

FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE: 
   Planning of Automation, Management, Organization,
   Accounting, Plant Design, Informative Systems, Productivity Issues,
   Socioeconomic Issues, Education, Seminars and Training


Conference Proceedings
      Conference Proceedings will be published in a book by Springer-Verlag,
      Berlin, Germany

Information about authors
      Three copies, in English, of the intended contribution (200 words
      approximately) should be sent to  one of the persons at
       following addresses:

Peiya Liu
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc
755 College Road East,
Princeton, NJ 08540, 
USA
Tel: (609) 734 3349
Fax:(609) 734 6565
e-mail: liu@siemens.com

Docteur J.-M. PROTH
INRIA LORRAINE Technopole Metz 2000
4, rue Marconi
57070 METZ
FRANCE
Fax: (33) 87 76 39 77
Tel: (33) 87 20 35 00


An abstract should contain the title of the paper, full names and addresses 
of all authors, objectives, methods and significance of the reported results.
  The final acceptance will be based on full papers. The important dates are  

Abstract due date: 30th June 1991
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 31th July 1991
Receipt of full papers: 15th October 1991
Notification of full paper acceptance: 15th December 1991
Camera Ready Manuscript due date: 31th January 1992