6th ANNUAL
EUROPEAN CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
CONFERENCE
ECEC'2001
http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/ecec2001/index.html
(this website will come online this week)
Concurrent Engineering: The Path To Electronic Business
Organized and sponsored by:
The Society for Computer Simulation International
Hosted by:
Universitad Politecnica de Valencia
Sponsored by:
DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology, Stuttgart, Germany
AUDI AG
Debis Humaita IT Services South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil
VENUE
...
The ECEC 2001 will be co-located with the EUROMEDIA 2001 (Multimedia,
Telematics, and Web Technology) conference and e-business will be added
as
an additional focus. Paying registration for either one of the
conferences
allows you to visit sessions from both conferences. Ranked as Spain's
third
urban center, Valencia is an ancient town, over 2000 years old, which
still
preserves its gothic architecture together with the different landscape
zones of
the Mediterranean Coast: coastline and mountains. The Visigothic
monarchy was
unified in the 6th Century, and Valence was subjected to Muslim
domination for
centuries. During this period of time, the Valencian people fought
continuously
for the recovery of their democracy to establish the present Autonomous
Community. During the 15th Century and a great part of the 16th, Valence
was one
of the major economic powers in the Mediterranean, a period that
coincides with
the "Valencian golden age". Known as the city of arts and science, the
intense
commercial activity dedicated to exports turned Valence into the most
traditional town for Fairs and Congresses in Spain. The city has several
cultural highlights, such as: theatres, museums, palaces, and
cathedrals. In
each site a very different and interesting architecture can be noticed.
Together
with these attractions, the Valencian coastline is one of the most
beautiful in
Spain.
CONFERENCE AIM
The conference aim of ECEC'2001 is to provide European Researchers with
a
forum, where they can discuss the latest developments linked to
concurrent
engineering focused on European research projects. ECEC'2001 aims to
identify the progress that has been made in Concurrent Engineering over
the
last year. A special focus of the ECEC'2001 will be on electronic
business and
it's implications for CE. The ECEC helps the dissemination of
information and
exploitation of results from the research and technical development and
provides a forum for the exchange of experiences in developing and
implementing CE based solutions across the wide spectrum of
manufacturing
and engineering industries. The conference is target at industrial
enterprises,
industrial associations, universities and research institutes.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The conference will be of direct benefit to process, production, design
or
development managers in manufacturing, strategic directors, quality
managers and
technical directors. The conference will also be of interest to
industrial and
academic researchers.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
The 2001 SCS Concurrent Engineering Europe Conference is structured
around the
following ten major topics. A track will be devoted to each of these
topics in
parallel. The conference language is English.
1 E-Business in CE
1.1 Organizational influences of e-business
1.2 B2B business models for inter-organizational CE
1.3 Migration to e-business based CE
1.4 E-business applications for CE
1.5 B2B portals for CE
1.6 Emerging standards (e.g. XML)
2 Organization and Management
2.1 Principles of CE
2.2 Multi-disciplined team-working and project team organization
2.3 Global product development and international collaboration
2.4 Life-cycle cost and quality
2.5 Business process re-engineering and outsourcing
2.6 Supply chain management
2.7 Measurement of profitability by the introduction of CE
3 Implementation Techniques
3.1 Digital Mock-Up, rapid and virtual prototyping
3.2 Distributed and co-operative product development
3.3 Synthetic environments and simulation on the factory floor
3.4 Reverse engineering
3.5 Assembly and disassembly
3.6 High precision manufacturing
3.7 Sensor and robot assisted machining
4 Formal Methods and Techniques
4.1 Quality function deployment
4.2 Total quality management
4.3 Global optimization techniques and hybrid approaches
5 Process Modeling
5.1 Process planning in continuous, discrete and hybrid processes
5.2 Process modeling, monitoring and control
5.3 Diagnostics and maintenance
5.4 Automated inspection and quality control
5.5 Production planning, scheduling and control
6 Engineering Data Management and Information Modeling
6.1 Integration of geometrical data and product definition
6.2 Product data interchange (PDI) and standards
6.3 Data handling, distribution and transformation
6.4 Data version control and release management
6.5 Corporate technical memory
6.6 Design rationale and intent
7 Engineering Process Management
7.1 Engineering process modeling
7.2 CE metrics
7.3 CE process planning, scheduling and simulation
7.4 Workflow-management in CE
7.5 Project and team coordination
8 Collaborative CE Environments for Virtual Teams
8.1 Cooperative problem solving
8.2 CSCW methods and tools
8.3 Information and application sharing
8.4 Computer-based video and audio conferencing
8.5 Conflict resolution techniques
8.6 Constraint management
8.7 Negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architecture
9 Networking and distribution in CE
9.1 CORBA based environments and integrated frameworks
9.2 Architectures for building CE systems
9.3 CE languages and tools
9.4 Distributed computing environments
9.5 WWW based CE systems
10 Practical Applications and Experiences
10.1 Practical solutions
10.2 Systematic guide-lines
10.3 Pitfalls and success stories
10.4 Case studies, pilot projects and experiments
10.5 E-business applications in CE
KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS
ECECī2001 will feature one Keynote Speaker and two Invited Speakers.
Focusing on the main tracks of the Conference, invited speakers will
give
special in-depth presentations in plenary sessions, which will be
included in
the Proceedings of the Conference. Next to the ordinary sessions,
workshops will
be held where participants can discuss their research, set up joint
research
projects or help each other to solve problems; the so-called
partners-for-projects sessions.
BEST PAPER AWARD
The 2001 European Concurrent Engineering Conference will award the best
paper.
>From all full paper submissions, the overall best paper of the
conference will
be chosen
DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS
Submissions are due to arrive in QUADRUPLICATE at the SCS
European Simulation Office before December 15, 2000. Participants
may either submit one page of abstract or a full paper submission of
approximately 5 pages. Full paper submissions will be reviewed by three
members of the International Program Committee and considered for the
best paper award. Abstracts will be reviewed by only one member of the
International Program Committee. Notification of acceptance or rejection
will be sent by January 15, 2001.
Only original papers, written in English, which have not previously been
published elsewhere will be accepted. In case you want to organize a
panel discussion, please contact the program chairmen.
Authors are expected to register early (at a reduced fee) and to attend
the
conference at their own expense to present the accepted papers. If early
registration and payment are not made, the paper will not be published
in
the conference proceedings. In the case of multi-authors, one author
should be identified as the person who will act as correspondent for the
paper.
An author kit with complete instruction for preparing a camera-ready
copy
for the proceedings will be sent to authors of accepted papers. The
camera-ready copy of the papers accompanied by an electronic version in
MS Word or Latex must be in by March 10, 2001. The final manuscript
for full papers are expected to be 5 pages long where as the short
papers
are approximately 3 pages long. In order to guarantee a high-quality
conference, the full papers will be reviewed to check whether the
suggestions of the program committee have been incorporated. The
nominees for the best paper awards will be selected as well.
Submission Deadline : December 15, 2000
Acceptance Notification : January 15, 2001
Camera-Ready Copies : March 10, 2001
EXHIBITS
An exhibition will be held in the central hall where all participants
meet for
coffee and tea. There will be a special exhibition section for
universities and
non-profit organizations, and a special section for publishers and
commercial
stands. If you would like to participate, please contact the SCS
European
Office. Authors can also exhibit their tools which feature in their
demonstrations.
VENDOR SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact SCS International
at the
European Office. Special sessions within the scientific program will be
set up
for vendor presentations.
OTHER ORGANIZED MEETINGS
A Special Blue Sky meeting will be organized for those attending the
conference
so that the future of the Concurrent Engineering Europe can be discussed
and
mapped out.
CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
Philippe Geril
The Society for Computer Simulation International, European Simulation
Office,
University of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Tel. (Office): +32.9.233.77.90
Tel. Fax(Private): +32.59.800.804
Fax(Office): +32.9.223.49.41
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Further information about the 2001 European Concurrent Engineering
Conference
can be found on WWW under: http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/ecec2001
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REGISTRATION FEES
Registration Authors SCS/EUROSIM Other
Fees Members Participants
Pre-Registration
before 475 Euro 475 Euro 525 Euro
March 5, 2000
Registration after Pre-
March 5, 2000 registration 525 Euro 550 Euro
Required
The registration fee includes one copy of the Conference Proceedings,
coffee and tea during the breaks, all lunches, a welcome cocktail and
the
conference dinner.
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