Scope
BASYS'04 will address Information Technology for Balanced Automation
Systems in Manufacturing and Services.
The focus of the conference will be to explore new challenges faced by the integration of Knowledge and
Technology as major drivers for business changes considering Product and Services Life Cycles.
BASYS'04 is the 6th of a series of conferences devoted to the advances
of IT in the context of balanced
integration of automation and human involvement in manufacturing and services. Creating appropriate
frameworks for exploring the best synergies between humans and automated systems represents an enormous
challenge in terms of processes characterization, modelling, and development of adequate support tools.
Previous conferences took place in Victoria, Brazil (1995), Lisbon, Portugal (1996), Prague, Czech Republic
(1998), Berlin, Germany (2000), and Cancun, Mexico (2002).
Topics
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Track A:
| Multi-agent and holonic systems in manufacturing |
| Theoretical foundations |
| Architectures of holons and agents, design methodologies |
| Global open system architecture |
| Knowledge ontologies |
| MAS development tools |
| Agent-based system integration |
| Simulation tools |
| Reconfiguration tasks, real-time aspects |
| Standards and interoperability |
| Industrial applications & case studies |
Track B:
| Networked enterprises |
| Virtual organization / Virtual enterprise models |
| Infrastructures and support tools for VO / VE |
| Distributed business processes |
| Multi-agent approaches to VO |
| Inter-enterprise information systems and interoperability |
| Virtual laboratories and e-Science |
| Remote operation and supervision |
| Ubiquitous / pervasive / Grid computing |
| Social, ethical and legal issues |
| VO case studies and novel applications |
Track C:
| Integrated design and assembly |
| Structuring the assembly process |
| Cost models and management issues |
| Re-engineering / re-configurability approaches |
| System requirements specification tools |
| Human aspects and industrial cultures |
| Simulation and assessment |
| Integrative Design methodologies |
Track D:
| Machine learning and data mining in industry |
| Data mining and decision support |
| Text mining and link analysis |
| Processes and tools |
| Collaborative data mining |
| Pre-processing for machine learning and data mining |
| Machine learning in distributed environments |
| Application cases |
The program will consist of plenary lectures, regular paper presentations, workshops, and invited sessions.
Proposals for invited sessions and associated workshops are welcome. The official language is English.
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