CFP: Semantic Technologies and Software Synthesis towards “Automation of Automation” (ETFA)

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Call For Papers: 

Semantic Technologies and Software Synthesis towards “Automation of Automation” 

Collocated with the 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
September 8-11, Luxenbourg
http://www.etfa2015.org/

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2015
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AIM:
Industrial production is extending its spectrum to include stronger customization of products, both in discrete manufacturing and in process automation. In the corresponding business model, standard factors such as high volumes or maximum efficiency no longer exist, and time to market (TTM) is a highly sensitive factor affecting profitability. Efficient engineering techniques which enable rapid creation from high level specifications to implementation or enable flexible production can be crucial since they greatly shorten the development time.

The goal of this special session is to invite recent research efforts in realizing the dream of “Automation of Automation”, i.e., automating the engineering process for automation systems, in both factory and process automation. Moving towards this direction, one requires close collaboration from researchers in industrial automation (for appropriate semantic models) and in computer science (for efficient algorithms, e.g., graph-database querying, game solving, constraint solving), such that one can create tools that both ease modelling and scale to the industrial usage.

The proposed special session will invite 4 to 6 interdisciplinary papers presenting their results in successfully introducing semantic technologies and smart algorithms to reduce manual engineering efforts.

TOPICS:
This special session will be focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:

* Achieve flexible production or avoid re-engineering via using a well-defined semantic (e.g., behavioral-level) interface and via the introduction of smart searching algorithms to automatically synthesize artifacts (e.g., optimized production plans, parameters, PLC function blocks) that originally needs to be created manually.

* Apply generic automatic reasoning technologies on the semantic model on the device level (bus, PLC, sensors and actuators) to achieve smart manufacturing and distributed intelligence.

* Experience papers stating how semantic technologies and algorithmic search/synthesis/reasoning techniques are used to avoid engineering efforts.

* Position papers from industry prioritizing problems to be solved. 

A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the Semantic Web Journal.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
The working language of the conference is English. Papers are limited to 8 double column pages in a font no smaller than 10- points. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format, according to the instructions contained in the Conference web site.

Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The final manuscript must be accompanied by a registration form and a registration fee payment proof. All conference attendees, including authors and session chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee, and their travel expenses. The ETFA2015 Organizing Committee reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference at IEEE Xplore if the paper is not presented at the conference.

SCHEDULE:
* Deadline for submission of special sessions papers: April 15, 2015
* Notification of acceptance of special sessions papers:  May 15, 2015
* Deadline for submission of final manuscripts – special sessions: July 1, 2015

ORGANIZERS:
*Dr. Alois Zoitl, fortiss GmbH (zoitl@fortiss.org ) 
*Dr. Chih-Hong Cheng, ABB Research, (chih-hong.cheng@de.abb.com) 
*Dr. Marta Sabou, TU Vienna, (marta.sabou@ifs.tuwien.ac.at )

Received on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:38:37 UTC