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                            ETFA'2003
               9th IEEE International Conference on
           Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
             September 16-19, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal
                 http://www.uninova.pt/etfa2003/

                            Track on 
                  Automation Systems and Control

The track focuses on (but is not limited to) latest developments 
in the industrial control area. The main challenge for future 
development is fast and easy re-configurability of the manufacturing 
system itself as well as of the control system. This is a way to meet 
the needs of costumers in rapidly changing markets where mass production 
is no longer the dominating way of producing goods. The urge to agility 
implies changes in the methodologies for system and controller design. 
Centralized, programmable logic control has to be replaced by highly distributed, 
encapsulated control functionality where a change of the whole function does 
no more require re-programming of controllers but merely a change of 
interconnections of encapsulated sub-functions. Design methodologies have 
to answer these newly arising demands. They have to be extremely flexible 
and must be automated in order to minimize human intervention in the design 
process. This causes further needs for a deeper theoretical understanding, 
a better formalization, and, finally, a consistent tool support. 

The track is dedicated to present some developments towards those goals, namely:

-	Modular and incremental approaches for formal modelling of 
        manufacturing and process systems;
-	Synthesis methods for flexible logic control;
-	Advanced control: adaptive and optimal control, robust control, 
        computational advances in industrial process control;
-	Model based predictive control;
-	New applications of discrete event simulation;
-	Supervisory control;
-	Integration of different aspects of automation, 
        ad control, supervision, human operation, diagnostics, visualization, etc.;
-	Logic programming and verification of control systems;
-	Failure detection, diagnosis, and appropriate control strategies;
-	Integrated control and supervision;
-	Synergy of different control strategies;
-	Design methodologies and design patterns for re-configurable systems;
-	Holonic Manufacturing Systems;
-	Design and implementation of distributed control systems;
-	Recent developments in standardization;
-	Test cases, benchmarks, tools;
-	Applications and experiences in practice;
-	Virtual Reality & Telesensation, Multimedia;
-	Prototyping, Rapid Prototyping

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SOLICITED PAPERS
Research papers; reporting on new developments 
in technological sciences. Industry and development papers; reporting on 
actual developments of technology, products, systems, and solutions. 
Tutorial and survey papers.

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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers are to be submitted electronically. For further details,
please consult the conference web pages.

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AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE
Deadline for submission of full papers 
and proposals for special sessions:                      April 30, 2003
Notification of papers acceptance:                         June 8, 2003
Final manuscripts due:                                     July 8, 2003

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TRACK CHAIRS
Hans-Michael Hanisch, Univ. Halle, Germany 
Matilde Santos, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, 
Valeriy Vyatkin, Univ. Halle, Germany