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To enhance the technical program
and focus on specific topics and areas, INDIN'2014 will
include special sessions, in addition to regular ones.
Special sessions can cover subjects or cross-subjects
belonging to the topics of interest, or novel topics
related with the ones identified within the topics of
interest. Special sessions can also have the drive from
specific R&D projects or clusters of projects,
namely EU-sponsored R&D projects.
If you are interested in organizing a special session,
please contact Special Sessions Co-Chairs, Paulo Leitao
(pleitao@ipb.pt), Valeriy Vyatkin
(valeriy.vyatkin@ltu.se), Jose L. Martinez Lastra
(jose.lastra@tut.fi), Leandro Buss Becker
(leandro.becker@ufsc.br).
The proposal for a special session should include title
of the session, names and contact addresses of the
organizers (these persons must attend the conference),
technical outline of the session (50 words) and topics,
and names/contact addresses of the potential reviewers
and/or contributing authors.
Please use the following template for submitting your
proposal: Template
Submission procedure and review process for special
session papers will be as for regular papers.
Special
Session on Industrial Agents and
Self-Organisation/Self-Adaptation
Special Session Organizers:
Paulo Leitão, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
(pleitao@ipb.pt)
José Barata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(jab@uninova.pt)
Luís Ribeiro, Linköping University (luis.ribeiro@liu.se)
Franz Rammig, Universität Paderborn (franz@upb.de)
Technical Outline and Topics:
The prevalence of ICT and cyber-physical systems are
imposing very strong requirements, demanding
personalized/customized products and solutions, that
integrate intelligence and are able to handle tasks
delegated by the owners. This implies for instance
shorter delivery times and shorter life-cycles, forcing
companies to adapt their processes by having flexible,
reconfigurable production plants. As a consequence
future industrial production systems depend on a high
degree of flexibility and adaptability. The same is true
for many products as well. They are deployed into
rapidly changing environments and therefor need to be
designed for flexibility and adaptability. Recent
research directions towards self-adapting and
self-organizing IT systems pave the way towards the
intended flexibility.
The agent technology, and in its background the agent
orientation, is a promising approach to address this
current challenge, introducing an alternative way to
design management and control systems based on the
decentralization of functions over distributed
autonomous and cooperative entities. Some preliminary
results show that agent technology is highly promising
in realizing flexible, self-adapting, and robust
industrial applications in a number of application
domains such as manufacturing, energy systems, logistics
and smart cities.
On the other hand, and in direct relation with the
multi-agent approach, Self-organization and Emergence
are elusive concepts in the manufacturing domain yet in
recent years they have gained a considerable traction
since they promote an elegant and often simple way of
building highly complex and robust systems. They also
require a different mindset that often defies the
conventional way of conceiving, deploying and managing
manufacturing systems.
This special session intends to contribute for
stimulating the discussion of ideas, concepts,
techniques, technologies and projects, based on the
application of distributed paradigms, namely agent
technology, in the development of modular,
self-adapting, and robust industrial systems. Particular
attention may be given to the industrial applications of
such systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Intelligent and cooperative cyber-physical
systems.
· Vision and roadmaps for industrial agents.
· Engineering methodologies, techniques and
technologies and the changes caused by them within
traditional engineering processes.
· Self-* properties in application domains e.g.
factory automation and smart grids.
· Adaptable Real-time systems
· Real-time operating systems for rapidly changing
environments
· On-line quality assurance
· Standardization and best practices in industrial
settings.
· Infrastructures, services and testbeds for
industrial agents.
· Lessons learned from real-world use-cases.
· Concepts, Models and Architectures to support
Self-* properties and Emergence in a mechatronic
context.
· Bio-inspired concepts for self-* and emergence in
a mechatronic context.
· Emerging Business Models for Self-Organizing
manufacturing systems.
· Service-oriented approaches , Self-adaptation as
On-the-Fly service
· Assessment and Validation methodologies for
distributed mechatronic systems.
Special Session on Advances in Spare Parts
Management
Special Session Organizers:
Bernd Hellingrath, University of Münster, Germany,
Bernd.hellingrath@wi.uni-muenster.de
Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil, cpereira@ece.ufrgs.br
Technical Outline and Topics:
The development and application of Intelligent
Maintenance Systems is continuously growing in research
and industry. These systems enable the collection of
status data across numerous machines, which in turn can
be analyzed using modern data analytics methods in order
to forecast machines failures with a higher quality and
to detect new failure patterns. This analysis results
prove to be a valuable input to spare parts management
systems by improving the planning and control of the
spare parts supply chain. This special session should
serve as a discussion forum for scientist,
practitioners, technology developers and particularly
industrial users of Intelligent Maintenance Systems and
Spare Parts Management Systems in production, who intend
to present and let evaluate their latest research and
development results.
Topics of this session include, but are not limited to:
- Advances in Intelligent Maintenance Systems
- Forecasting techniques of spare parts demand
based on IMS data
- Application of data analytics in spare parts
management
- Improved planning and control of the spare parts
supply chain
Special Session on Service-based Life Cycle Assessment
and Engineering Methods for industrial cyber-physical
based manufacturing systems and consumer products
Special Session Organizers:
Jose Barata, jab@uninova.pt
Kevin Nagorny, nagorny@atb-bremen.de
Armando W. Colombo, awcolombo@technik-emden.de
Technical Outline and Topics:
We are still at the dawn of an era where complex
distributed systems will further blurthe fabric of
business and physical worlds. Distributed and networked
Monitoring, Control, Diagnosis and other Supervisory
Control functions as services embedded in smart devices
and heterogeneous systems will be of key importance for
any real-world application. The virtualization of those
real-world applications that is supported by applying
the Cyber-Physical technologies like Service-oriented
Architecture, Cloud Computing and the Cloud
Manufacturing paradigms, among others, allows that the
systems will be able to handle the upcoming
heterogeneous large-scale infrastructures and support
evolvable architectures, management and control of
emergent behaviors, etc. The steadily increasing
implementation of these paradigms and concepts will
generate new possibilities for effective collaborative
design techniques of product-services (Meta Products)
and their production processes in different sectors
(automotive, home appliances, automation equipment
etc.). Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technologies and Lean
and Eco-design principles will apply Life Cycle
Assessment techniques which will involve all the actors
of a value chain, within a product ecosystem, allowing
manufacturers to strengthen their competitiveness at the
global market e.g. with new eco-innovative Meta Products
which generates a minimal environmental footprint along
the overall Life Cycle. Large and widely distributed
automation systems are composed of a complex set of
multi-disciplinary, heterogeneous, networked components
and systems. They may link a wide variety of
sensors/actuators, whole control, monitoring,
supervisory control systems – performing SCADA and DCS
functions – and up to MES and ERP systems – performing
operational and strategic management functions. Service
orientation as well as large-scale distribution and
virtualization of functions will become the basis for
innovative technical approaches at all automation levels
and new business concepts in the automation industry
associated to product-services (Meta Products) and their
production processes indifferent industrial end-user
sectors. Topics of interest include methods, techniques,
concepts, architectures and technologies in the
following directions:
- Architectures and technologies for next generation
distributed cyber-physical oriented automation systems
- Large scale industrial systems monitoring,
management and control implemented with cyber-physical
technologies
- Service Oriented Architectures for future
automation systems
- Collaborative Eco-Innovating Design
Methodologies and Tools
- Collaborative environments for cross-sectorial
design of Meta Products and their production processes
- Knowledge management
- Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technologies
- Migration and integration strategies from
today’s automation systems to cyber-physical service
oriented ones addressing all levels of automation
systems
- Virtualization techniques and concepts applied
to automation architectures associated to
product-services (Meta Products) and their production
processes in different industrial end-user sectors
- Complex Cyber-Physical System aspects in future
industrial automation
- Merging Cloud Computing and Cyber-Physical
Systems technologies for Life Cycle Assessment and
Engineering
Special Session on Industrial Applications for
Internet-of-Things Technology
Special Session Organizers:
KF Tsang, City University of Hong Kong,
ee330015@cityu.edu.hk
GP Hancke, City University of Hong Kong,
gp.hancke@cityu.edu.hk
Technical Outline and Topics:
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the concept of
connecting all devices and objects onto data networks.
This potentially allows for a smarter environment where
devices can make intelligent decisions on gathering data
or performing required actions.
This special session is interested in how IoT technology
could improve industrial applications – topics of
interest include (but are not limited to):
- IoT architecture for industry (things-centric,
data-centric, service-centric)
- Enabling industrial devices (embedding IoT
technology, addressability)
- Communication and network protocols for
industrial IoT
- Open architectures/platforms/hardware
- Data management (semantics, reliability,
security, analytics)
Special Session on Network Based Control Systems
and Applications
Special Session Organizers:
Josep M. Fuertes, josep.m.fuertes@upc.edu
Qing-Long Han, q.han@cqu.edu.au
Technical Outline and Topics:
Network-based Control Systems are becoming a major trend
in Industrial Electronics control applications and have
received much attention in recent years. Using
Distributed Network-Based Control Systems has many
advantages over conventional control techniques, such as
networking capability, modularity, wiring savings, and
self-configuration. In addition they allow us to do
distributed control and computing, tele-robotics,
cost-effective factory automation, among many other
critical applications.
This special session aims to examine the state of the
art of the Networked-based Control Systems in Industrial
Electronics areas. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
- Distributed Sensing, Estimation, Computation and
Control
- Modeling Issues in Networked Embedded Control
Systems
- Performance Issues and Communication Constraints
- Worst-Case Execution Time and Quality of Service
- Task and Message Scheduling for Networked
Control Systems
- Fault-Tolerance in NBCS
- Distributed Wireless Networks for Control
- Autonomous Distributed Control Systems
- Industrial Communication and Control Systems
- NBCS in Vehicles, Space, Medical, etc.
Applications
Special Session on Wireless Communication
Systems for Industrial Applications
Special Session Organizers:
Johan Åkerberg, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden –
johan.akerberg@se.abb.com
Mikael Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden –
mikael.gidlund@miun.se
Song Han, University of Connecticut, USA –
song@engr.uconn.edu
Stefano Savazzi, National Research Council of Italy
(CNR-IEIIT) - stefano.savazzi@ieiit.cnr.it
Umberto Spagnolini, Politecnico di Milano -
Umberto.Spagnolini@polimi.it
Technical Outline and Topics:
This special session on Wireless Communication Systems
for Industrial Applications brings together academic and
industry professional to a session on the design and
application of advanced wireless network technologies
that are expected to play a key role for the efficient
design of industrial processes. We solicit technical
papers describing original ideas, theory, methodology
and experiences from the design, implementation and
deployment of wireless systems for factory automation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced network architectures and standards for
industrial sensor and actuator networks
- Protocols for reliable and real-time wireless
communication
- Industry-standard network planning methods and
management tools
- Integration and coexistence of heterogeneous
wireless networks
- Wireless sensor and actuator networks
performance, simulation, RF measurements, modeling and
case studies
- Control over wireless networks
- Data analytics in industrial wireless networks
- Security and safety issues in industrial
wireless networks and applications (context awareness,
localization in smart workspaces, etc…)
Special Session on Semantic
Technologies for Knowledge-based Industrial
Applications
Special Session Organizers:
Christoph Legat, Technische Universität München,
Institute of Automation and Information Systems, Munich,
Germany, legat@ais.mw.tum.de
Stephan Grimm, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich,
Germany, grimm.stephan@siemens.com
Shastri L. Nimmagadda, School of Information Systems,
Curtin Business School, Curtin University, WA,
Australia, shastri.nimmagadda2011@gmail.com
Technical Outline and Topics:
The semantics of data plays an important role in many
industrial application domains. The availability of
explicit knowledge models can largely support the
representation, categorization, visualization, and
interpretation of sensor signals and other data in a
contextualized manner, and can facilitate a variety of
different knowledge-based industrial applications.
Examples are an integrated engineering of automation
facilities, enhanced communication of field devices,
knowledge-based monitoring and diagnostics systems,
managerial and technical decision support in industrial
applications domains like production automation,
logistics, and petroleum industry. Modeling, mapping and
reusing ontologies across multiple disciplines,
extracting explicit knowledge from (unstructured) data,
applying semantic technologies for facilitating data
mining and visualization of knowledge are still open
challenges. Although semantics is an upcoming topic in
industrial applications, the use of explicit semantic
technologies, such as ontologies, inference and
reasoning methods and in particular Semantic Web
technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL) is rather sparse.
This special session aims at bundling the discussion on
semantic technologies for knowledge-based industrial
applications between scientists and practitioners that
is otherwise typically spread across discipline-specific
sessions.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Semantic modeling of self-aware systems and
devices
- Logic- and constraint-based validation of plant
models
- Semantic service descriptions for reconfigurable
control software
- Knowledge-based monitoring and diagnostic
inference
- Semantic mediation for field device
communication
- Semantically enhanced plant and product life
cycle management
- Semantic modeling for seamless,
multi-disciplinary plant engineering
- Semantic Technologies for applications in the
context of Cyber-Physical Systems, Industry 4.0,
Internet of Things, etc.
- Data Mining methods for deriving semantically
annotated information from unstructured data
- Mapping of knowledge from different domains or
disciplines
- Knowledge-based systems for supporting technical
or managerial decisions
- Visualization of knowledge for supporting
industrial applications
- Case studies and application of Semantic
Technologies in industrial applications
Special Session on Human
Support Technology on Human Factors
Special Session Organizers:
Prof. Kang-Hyun Jo, (Korea), (IEEE IES TC HF),
acejo@ulsan.ac.kr
Prof. Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, (Japan), (IEEE IES TC HF),
hashimoto@aiit.ac.jp
Prof. Sho YOKOTA, (Japan), (IEEE IES TC HF),
yokota@mec.setsunan.ac.jp
Technical Outline and Topics:
Realization of Human Support Technology to support high
quality life requires not only considerations of the
human factors including physical and mental
characteristics but also a consideration of a
relationship between such an individual characteristics
and a social background which the individual belongs. In
order to realize a truly functioned Human Support
Technology, it should be integrated various studies in
many human related fields widely: Robotics,
Mechatoronics, Sensing, cognitive science, sociology,
etc. Moreover the Human Support Technologies have to
provide appropriate services with adapting its functions
to desired applications or targets. Therefore, the
organizers propose a Special Session to discuss some
case studies with consideration based on human factors
and related topics. The Special Session will focus on
the following topics, but the related topics are also
welcome.
- Supporting System
- Human System Interactions
- Sensing and Recognition of human motions and
Intentions - Adaptive System
- Industrial Applications
- Applications of human factors
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