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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
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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 
                  Factory Communication Systems

- Real-time issues in factory communications: message scheduling,
  distributed applications support;
- The integration of emerging information technologies with 
  factory communication systems, Intra- and Internet Access;
- Distributed application platforms (CORBA, Java/Jini, etc.) and
  Multimedia communication support;
- High Speed and Wireless Networks in Automation;
- Internetworking, Interoperability; Configuration Tools and
  Network Management;
- Formal description techniques for the verification, validation
  and test of factory communication systems;

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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:                  April 30, 2003
Notification of papers acceptance:                         June 8, 2003
Final manuscripts due:                                     July 8, 2003

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TRACK CHAIRS
Thilo Sauter, Vienna Univ. of Technology (sauter@ict.tuwien.ac.at)
Francisco Vasques, University of Porto (vasques@fe.up.pt)