WFCS 2014

10th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems

Scope

The WFCS workshop is the largest IEEE technical event specially dedicated to industrial communication systems. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to review current trends in this area and to present and discuss new ideas and new research directions.

Focus on

• Real-time and Dependability in Industrial Communication Systems: message scheduling; task allocation; fault-tolerant communication; performance analysis; safety and security issues; synchronization.
• System Integration in Industrial Automation Systems: vertical and life-cycle aspects, web-based setup, maintenance, and configuration; transparency vs. security; data-flow management; internetworking; hybrid wired/wireless industrial infrastructures.
• Information and Communication Technology in Automation: system design; component-based systems, web frameworks; mobile computing; modeling and specification techniques; formal methods.
• Recent advances in research domains with similar technical requirements: networked control systems; wireless sensor networks; building automation networks; automotive and train-control networks; distributed real-time embedded systems.

Workshop topics

• Fieldbus networks
• Industrial Ethernet networks
• IP-based networks
• Industrial wireless networks
• Networked embedded systems
• Sensor networks
• Building automation networks
• Automotive and train-control networks
• Factory and Process automation networks
• Real-time communication and applications
• Web-based communication and applications
• Distributed application platforms
• Safety and security in industrial communications
• Fault-tolerance in industrial communications
• Configuration tools and network management
• Internetworking and interoperability
• System aspects
• Case studies

Committees

Honorary chair

• Jean-Pierre Thomesse, INPL, Nancy, France

General co-chairs

• Zoubir Mammeri, Toulouse University, Toulouse, France
• Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA

Program Committee co-chairs

• Roman Obermaisser, Univ. of Siegen, Germany
• Eduardo Tovar, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

Work in progress co-chairs

• Marek Miskowicz, AGH Univ. of Science & Technology, Poland
• Jean-Luc Scharbarg, IRIT – University of Toulouse, France

Industry Day chair

• TBD

WFCS2014 Local Committee

• Armelle Bonenfant, IRIT, France
• Rahim Kacimi, IRIT, France
• Sabyne Lartigue, IRIT, France
• Cédric Teyssié, IRIT, France

WFCS2014 Program Committee

• Luis Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Moris Behnam, MRTC/MŠlardalen University, Sweden
• Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Peter Buchholz, TU Dortmund, Germany
• Gianluca Cena, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Juan Colmenares, Samsung Information Systems America, USA
• Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
• Jean-Dominique Decotignie, Swiss Center for Microtechnology, Switzerland
• Dacfey Dzung, ABB Switzerland Corporate Research, Switzerland
• Wilfried Elmenreich, University of Klagenfurt, Germany
• Max Felser, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• Joaquim Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Luis Lino Ferreira, University of Porto, Portugal
• Alessandra Flammini, University of Brescia, Italy
• Jose Fonseca, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Piotr Gaj, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
• Laurent George, UniversitŽ Paris-Est, France
• Luiz Affonso Guedes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Hans Hansson, Malardalen University, Sweden
• Guy Juanole, University of Toulouse, France
• Joerg Kaiser, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitt Magdeburg, Germany
• Athanasios Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Institute, Greece
• Wolfgang Kastner, TU Vienna, Austria
• Anis Koub‰a, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
• Markus Kucera, University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany
• Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
• Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Ricardo Marau, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Nicolas Navet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Peter Palensky, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Paulo Pedreiras, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Stig Petersen, SINTEF, Norway
• Juan Pimentel, Kettering University, USA
• Julian Proenza, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Achim Rettberg CvO Univ. Oldenburg, Germany
• FrŽdŽric Ridouard, LIAS/ENSMA, France
• Thilo Sauter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
• Michael Short, Teesside University, UK
• Javier Silvestre-Blanes, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Valencia, Spain
• Franoise Simonot, LORIA, France
• Amund Skavhaug, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Ye-Qiong Song, LORIA - University of Lorraine, France
• Henning Trsek, Institute Industrial IT, Germany
• Adriano Valenzano, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Francisco Vasques, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Stefano Vitturi, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Takahiro Yakoh, Keio University, Japan
• Zhi Wang, Zhejiang University, China
• Martin Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden, Germany

WFCS Series Steering Committee

• J-D. Decotignie, CSEM, Switzerland
• D. Dietrich, Tech. Univ. of Vienna, Austria
• J. Fuertes, Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Spain
• J. Jasperneite, Institut Industrial IT, Germany
• G. Juanole, LAAS-CNRS, France
• C. Norström, Mälardalen Univ., Sweden
• T. Sauter, Austrian Academy of Sc., Austria
• E. Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Porto, Portugal
• A. Valenzano, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
• F. Vasques, University of Porto, Portugal
• M. Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden, Germany
• F. Simonot-Lion, LORIA-INPL, Nancy, France
• R. Zurawski, ISA Group, USA (Chair)