iATPA'2012 - Call for Papers

[Richard Mordinyi]

ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜￜ Call for Papers

ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ Second Workshop on Industrial Automation Tool Integration
ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜￜￜￜￜￜ for Engineering Project Automation (iATPA 2012)
ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜ http://cdl.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/iatpa2012

ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ held in conjunction with the

ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ 17th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies
ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ and Factory Automation (ETFA'2012)

ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ ￜￜￜ 21.09.2012, Krakow, Poland


Motivation
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Modern real-world and large-scale industrial systems engineering projects involve the cooperation of a wide range of engineering systems and tools that use different technical platforms and heterogeneous data models. The engineering of e.g., power plants or car manufacturing plants requires coordinated information exchange between different engineering disciplines (e.g., process, mechanical, electrical, and software engineering), which is complex and hard to achieve using traditional systems engineering techniques. Well-established software engineering methods and approaches (e.g., iterative development processes, issue tracking systems) could provide additional value to systems engineering projects, but require careful integration and seamless collaboration with other engineering fields to achieve industrial acceptance.

Today's system integration technologies are suitable to bridge most of the technical and semantic gaps between these automation systems engineering tools. However, error-prone and time-consuming human work (e.g., manually copying information from one to another tool) is needed to handle integration concerns at the interfaces of different engineering disciplines as each of them has their specific engineering tools and engineering systems. Therefore the definition, enactment, and monitoring of automated engineering processes crossing several interfaces is hard to define and establish. The goal of the workshop is the investigation of methods and techniques for the automation support of automation systems engineering processes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of engineering projects.

Focus
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Topics of interest in this workshop include, but are not restricted to:

• Engineering Tool Integration
  • Architectural Design
  • Tool Data Integration
  • Process Orchestration
  • Model-Driven Integration
  • Automated and Integrated Data Exchange Mechanism
• Quality Assurance
  • Product and Process Metrics
  • Defect Detection
  • Process Monitoring and Tracing
  • New Technologies in Monitoring and Control Systems
  • Simulation and Virtual Startup (Digital Factory)
• Automated Testing
  • Test Case Generation
  • Verification and Validation
  • Tool Support for Testing
  • Formal Mechanism Applied in Testing
  • Applications for Automated Testing during Engineering
• AutomationML
  • Information Exchange between Different Activities of the Engineering Chain
  • Interaction of Different Stakeholders within the Engineering Chain
  • Consistency within the Engineering Chain
  • Model-Based Data Transformation/Exchange
  • Usage of Meta-Data for Practical Application within the Engineering Chain
• Industrial-oriented Topics
  • Empirical Evaluations
  • Use cases
  • Experience Reports and Lessons Learned
  • Tool Demonstrations

Important Dates
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Submission of papers: July 6, 2012
Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2012
Submission of camera-ready papers: September 7, 2012
Workshop: September 21, 2012

Workshop Organizers
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Richard Mordinyi (richard.mordinyi [AT] tuwien.ac.at)
Thomas Moser (thomas.moser [AT] tuwien.ac.at)
Miriam Schleipen (miriam.schleipen [AT] iosb.fraunhofer.de)
Heiko Koziolek (heiko.koziolek [AT] de.abb.com)
Alois Zoitl (alois.zoitl [AT] tuwien.ac.at)

Program Committee
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Stefan Biffl (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Marco Colla (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland)
Ivica Crnkovic (Mï¿œlardalen University, Sweden)
Olawande Daramola (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Deepak Dhungana (Siemens AG, Austria)
Michael Dierkes (Rockwell-Collins, France)
Rainer Drath (ABB Research Center Ladenburg, Germany)
Christian Frï¿œhwirth (Aalto University, Finland)
Nils Hagge (Siemens, Germany)
Lorenz Hundt (Otto-v.-Guericke University Magedeburg, Germany)
Tina Krausser (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Odile Laurent (Airbus, France)
Tiziano Leidi (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland)
Arndt Lï¿œder (Otto-v.-Guericke University Magedeburg, Germany)
Inah Omoronyia (University of Limerick, Irland)
Ioannis Parissis (LCIS, France)
Rick Rabiser (JKU Linz, Austria)
Szabolcs Rosznyai (IBM Research, US)
Antonio Valentini (Oï¿œneida Inc., Canada)
Tanja Vos (Universidad Politï¿œcnia de Valencia, Spain)
Dietmar Winkler (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)