Nina Berry (nmberry@california.sandia.gov)
Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:15:01 -0800
This workshop is dedicated to exploring the concepts and
technologies needed to make B2B and B2C realistic
implementations.
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*******CALL FOR PAPERS*******
SPIE PHOTONICS EAST 2000
November 5-8, 2000
Boston Massachusetts
NETWORK INTELLIGENCE: INTERNET-BASED MANUFACTURING (VV13)
Objectives
Internet-based computing and global competitiveness have revolutionized the way businesses and customers interact. Manufacturing companies are responding to these changes and challenges in their industry by extending current Internet trends to create virtual marketplaces where factories, suppliers, and customers are part of the solution. The vision of a completely integrated environment is not new; however, the technologies needed to accomplish these business-to-business and business-to-customers solutions are very complex. While Internet technology providers provide Web sites with commerce features and inventory data, the vision also includes communication between the factory floor and the Web site. Accomplishing this task will require the integration of everything from internal business systems to process level control systems. The issues associated with this endeavor requires network intelligence to handle "networking" issues of security, reliability, authentication, and firewalls; encryption algorithms; "integration" issues of interoperability, communication, and distributed resources; and "managing" issues of information coordination and negotiation/bid processes.
This conference will provide a forum for software engineers and manufacturing engineers to discuss the different aspects of systems integration and process control with specific emphasis on the use of technologies for achieving open system models across networks.
Papers are invited on the following and related topics:
Integrating process control with business systems.
Using the Internet as a virtual enterprise infrastructure.
Tools and methodologies for achieving agent-based manufacturing over the Internet (i.e. management and coordination).
Authentication and access control for internet computing.
Developing intelligent data response systems to support the manufacturing process: Issues from the Manufacturer/Software sides.
Integrating back office business systems and Internet technology
Econometrics of Internet marketplaces, i.e., just in time inventories, costing and supplying.
Distribution issues and viability of implementing customer-directed customization of manufactured products.
Using network intelligence to drive process and quality improvements.
Submissions:
We encourage participants to submit a 250 words abstract describing purpose, methods, results, new or breakthrough work to be presented, and conclusions of the work on line at the following url:
http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe00/confs/VV13.html.
Additional information on SPIE submission requirements can be found at this url:
http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe00/pe00_submissions.html
Conference Chairs:
Nina Berry, Sandia National Laboratories
Liza Lief, Zaftek
Program Committee:
Satish T. Bukkapatnam, Univ. of Southern California
Neil Christopher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nenad Ivezic, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul O'Brien, British Telecom
Juan Rodrigues-Arguilar, MIT Sloan Business School
Carmen M. Pancerella, Sandia National Laboratories
Steve Ray, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jie Xing, North Carolina State University
Important Dates:
April 10, 2000 Abstracts due
May 12, 2000 Notification of acceptance
July 24, 2000 Official SPIE notification of acceptance
October 9, 2000 Manuscripts due
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