Workshop Program

Tuesday August 27: Pre Workshop Industrial Day

WFCS'2002 will be preceeded by an industrial day

Day 1 (Wednesday August 28)

9.00--10.00 Intro and keynote with the title "Industrial IT a new concept for automation" by Harry Frank, Senior Vice President ABB Research
10.00-10.30Coffee
10.30-12.10 Session 1: Real-Time Ethernet
  • The Road to deterministic Ethernet End-to-End
    T. Skeie, S. Johannessen, Ø. Holmeide


  • Deterministic Real-Time Communication with Switched Ethernet
    J. Jaspernite, P. Neumann, M. Theis, K. Watson


  • Evaluation of switched Ethernet in an industrial context by using the Network Calculus
    J-P Georges, E. Rondeau, T. Divoux


  • Switched Ethernet for Real-Time Industrial Communication: Modelling and Message Buffering Delay Evaluation
    Y. Song, A. Koubaa, F. Simonot
12.10-12.45Work in Progress Session 1
  • Plug-and-Play for Semantic Fieldbus Networks
    Steffen Deter, Barbara Krzensk, Thilo Sauter


  • An approach to Formalize Object Interactions in Distributed Real-time Systems
    Michael Mock


  • Lightweight Agent Platform for High-Performance Fieldbus Nodes
    Yoseba K. Penya, Stefan Mahlknecht, Peter Rössler


12.45-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.40 Session 2: Software and System Architecture
  • Development of Distributed Industrial Control Applications: The CORFU Framework
    K. Thramboulidis


  • Peer-to-peer communication for virtual industrial devices
    M. Velasco, P. Marti, J. Fuertes


  • Integration of Fieldbus systems into On-line Asset Management Solutions based on Fieldbus Profile Descriptions
    M. Wollschlaeger, C. Diedrich, J. Müller, U. Epple


  • Remote Control of EIB Systems Based on Virtual Shared Group Objects
    W. Kastner, W. Tumfart
15.40-16.10Coffee
16.10-17.50 Session 3: Fieldbuses
  • The Fieldbus War: History and Short Break Between Battles
    M. Felser, T. Sauter


  • Introducing Field Buses in Presses for Plastic Material Injection
    G. Cena, A. Valenzano, S. Vitturi


  • Time-Triggered Communication with UARTs
    W. Elmenreich, M. Delvai


  • A High Performance Field Network Based on a Tree Topology
    G. Cena, A. Valenzano
18.00-...Welcome reception

Day 2 (Thursday August 29)

08.30-09.30Invited Talk: "Complexity Issues in System Development: Examples from Automotive Electronics" by Dr Jakob Axelsson, Volvo Car Corporation

Slides and articles in PDF format: OH slides, Article 1, Article 2

09.30-10.00Coffee
10.00-11.15 Session 4: Fault-tolerance and optimization
  • Adapting FTT-CAN for the joint dispatching of tasks and messages
    M. Calha, J. Fonseca


  • Achieving Fault Tolerance in FTT-CAN
    J. Ferreira, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, J. Fonseca


  • Otimization of the capacity of PROFIBUS for the transmission of images and control traffic
    J. Silvestre, V. Sempere, M. Montava


11.15-12.30Work in Progress Session 2
  • Performance Optimization Recommendations for EtherNet/IP Networks
    Anatoly Moldovansky


  • Industrial Ethernet: Building Blocks for an Holistic Approach
    Berta Batista


  • The Importance of Wireless Technologies for Industrial Applications
    Trygve Lunheim, Amund Skavhaug


  • Wireless Sensor Communication and Powering System for Real Time Industrial Applications
    Dacfey Dzung, Christoffer Apneseth, Guntram Scheible, Wolfgang Zimmermann


  • Integration of TCP/IP and PROFIBUS Protocols
    N. Pereira, F. Pacheco, L. M. Pinho, A. Prayati, E. Nikoloutsos, A. Kalogeras, E. Hintze, H. Adamczyk, L. Rauchhaupt


12.30-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.40 Session 5: System Design
  • Automatic Configuration and Diagnosis for Fieldbus Based Automation
    J. Toro, J. Karppinen, J. Hintikka, L. Pohjanheimo


  • Genetic Algorithms for Industrial Ethernet Network Design
    N. Krommenacker, E. Rondeau, T. Divoiux


  • Real-Time Aspects in the Development of Function Block Oriented Engineering Support Systems
    A. Prayati, S. Koubias, G. Papadopoulos


  • AspectTAZ: a new approach based on Aspect Oriented Programming for Object Oriented Industrial Messagig Service Design
    L. Teboul, R. Pawlak, L. Seinturier, E. Gressier-Soudan, E. Becquet
15.40-16.10Coffee
16.10-...Excursion and conference dinner

Day 3 (Friday August 30)

08.30-09.30Invited Talk: "Internet and Predictability", Mats Björkman
09.30-10.00Coffee
10.00-11.45 Session 6: Wireless Communication
  • Altruists in the PicoRadio Sensor Network
    A. Willig, J. Rabaey, R. Shah, A. Wolisz


  • System and Device Architecture of a Radio Based Fieldbus - The RFieldbus System
    L. Rauchhaupt


  • Hybrid Wired/wireless Profibus Networks Supported by Bridges/Routers
    L. Ferreira, M. Alves, E. Tovar
11.45-12.35 Session 7: Internet Conectivity
  • Applicability of Internet Protocols for Fieldbus Access
    M. Lobashov, G. Pratl, T. Sauter


  • A publisher subscriber architecture Supporting Interoperability of the CAN-bus and Internet
    J. Kaiser, C. Brudna
12.35-14.00Lunch
14.00-15.40 Sesion 8: Real-Time Performance
  • FTT-Ethernet: a platform to implement the Elastic Task Model over message streams
    P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida, P. Gai, G. Buttazzo


  • Evaluating Worst Case Response Time in Mono and Multi-Master Profibus DP
    S. Cavalieri, S. Monforte, E. Tovar, F. Vasques


  • Fuzzy Traffic Smothing: An Approach for Real-Time Communication over Ethernet Networks
    A. Carpenzano, R. Caponetto, L. LoBello, O. Mirabella


  • Performance Analysis of predictive p-persistent CSMA protocol for control networks
    M. Miskowicz, M. Sapor, W. Latawiec, M. Zych
15.40-15.50Closing