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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
         Information Technology in Enterprise Integration

The Information Technology is a critical core element of the
infrastructure of any modern enterprise. From the users’ perspective, 
IT is represented by a large variety of tools, ranging from the 
generic office tools to specialized engineering, production planning, 
management decision support tools, or even large applications covering 
a wide spectrum of functions, such as the ERP systems. Guaranteeing 
the interoperation among these tools, or at least the necessary level 
of information exchange, is still a major challenge in enterprise 
integration. In addition to the intra-enterprise integration, the scope 
of the problem is enlarged with the new emerging organizational
paradigms such as virtual enterprises and other forms of collaborative
networked organizations.
This track aims at attracting innovative approaches and case studies on
intra- and inter-enterprise integration. 

Some suggested topics:

- Data base technologies
- Middleware, Data Mining
- Data Warehouses
- Decision Support Systems (DSS)
- Executive Information Systems (EIS)
- Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Supply Chain Management
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Internet, e-commerce, e-business, etc.

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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
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon (cam@uninova.pt)
Norihisa Komoda - Osaka University (komoda@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp)