Dr. Richard Zurawski
ISA Corp.
P.O. Box. 2561
Alameda, CA 94501-0279, USA
ph: +1 510 825 1964
fax: +1 510 436 4587
emai: zurawski@sbcglobal.net  
 

WFCS'2002 Steering Committee
J-D.Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Josep Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Guy Juanole, LAAS, Toulouse, France
Eduardo Tovar, IPPP, Porto, Portugal
Richard Zurawski, JSISA, Concord, USA

WFCS'2002 Program Chairman
Hans A Hansson, MRTC, Västerås, Sweden
E-mail: hans.hansson@mdh.se

Program Committee
Luis Almeida, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal
Peter Altenbernd, C-Lab, Germany
Iain Bate, Univ of York, UK
Mats Björkman MRTC, MdH, Sweden
Gianluca Cena, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Francis Cottet, ENSMA, France
Ivica Crnkovic, MRTC, MdH, Sweden
Rob Davies, York, UK
J-D. Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dietmar Dietrich, TU Wien, Austria
Lucia Franco, EFEI, Brazil
Pep Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Magnus Jonsson, CCA, HH, Sweden
Guy Juanole, LAAS, France
Joerg Kaiser, University of Ulm, Germany 
Wook Hyun Kwon, SNU, S. Korea
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
Marga Marcos Muños, ESIB, Spain
Michael Mock, GMD, Germany 
Peter Neumann, IFAK, Germany
Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist Univ
Carlos Pereira, UFRGS, Brazil
Thilo Sauter, TU Wien, Austria
Vitor Sempere, UPV, Spain
Tor Skeie, ABB, Norway
Sejun Song, CISCO, USA
Jean-Pierre Thomesse, INPL, Nancy, France
Eduardo Tovar, ISEPP-IPP, Porto, Portugal
Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, USA
Francisco Vasques, Univ. of Porto, Portugal
Paulo Verissimo, FCUL, Lisbon, Portugal
Per-Arne Wiberg, CCA, HH, Sweden
Martin Wollschlaeger, IFAK, Germany
Christian Zeidler, ABB, Germany
Richard Zurawski, JSISA, Concord, USA
Dietmar Loy, Coactive Networks
 
 

WFCS'2002 WIP Co-Chairmen
Eduardo Tovar, IPP, Porto, Portugal
E-mail: emt@dei.isep.ipp.pt
Mats Björkman, MRTC, Västerås, Sweden
E-mail: Mats.Bjorkman@mdh.se

WFCS'2002 Publicity Chair
Eduardo Tovar, IPP, Porto, Portugal

Sponsored by: 
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre

Aim:
The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia involved in the area of factory communication systems.

Focus:
Real-time issues in factory communications: message scheduling, distributed application support; Dependability issues in factory communications: safety, security, availability and reliability; Formal description techniques for the verification, validation and test of factory communication systems; The integration of the emerging information technologies with the factory communication systems; Communication aspects in factory  system design and architecture.

Workshop topics:

Real-time communication and applications	Fieldbus networks
Dependable communication and applications	Cell networks
Communications and applications modeling	High speed networks
Multimedia communication support	Building automation networks
Distributed application platforms (CORBA, Java/Jini, etc.)	Wireless networks
Internetworking, interoperability	Embedded networks
Configuration tools and network management	Intranet and internet access
Component based design of factory systems	Software and System Architectures for factory systems
Factory applications and case studies

Submission of Papers:

The working language of the conference is English. Submissions should be formatted as follows: First page: title, authors, mailing and e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers and preferred workshop topic. Second and succeeding pages: Paper manuscript limited to 20 pages (at least 1-½ spaced, in a font no smaller than 11-point).

A special Work in Progress (WIP) session will be organized. This session is mainly intended for presentation of on-going work. Accepted papers will not be included in the workshop proceedings, instead they will be published through the WWW and in specific WIP proceedings. Submissions in the above areas should be sent in the IEEE double column format (not exceeding 4 pages) by e-mail to one of the WIP Session Co-Chairmen.

Paper Acceptance

Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The final manuscript must be accompanied by the registration form and also by a proof of the registration fee payment. All conference attendees, including authors and session chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee, and their travel expenses.

Important dates: