CALL FOR PAPERS 
7th IFAC International Conference on
Fieldbuses and nETworks in industrial and embedded systems
November 7-8-9, 2007
Toulouse, France
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Sponsored by IFAC Technical Committee on Components
and Technologies for Control (TC 4.1)
Co-Sponsored by IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems (TC 1.5)
SCOPE
The FET Conference is the largest IFAC technical event devoted to the context of industrial and embedded networked systems and their applications. Such systems integrate more or less smart sensors, actuators and computing devices which are interconnected through communication means which can be either dedicated or shared between different applications.
Initially, those communication means were wired networks, mainly fieldbuses or specific real time local area networks. Nowadays, the communication means are broadened i-e they include other technologies like wireless technologies, more general real-time local area networks and also internetworking through IP networks. The main application domains are industry automation, embedded systems (such as avionics, trains, ships and automotive ones) and home automation. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum to share ideas and experiences, in this area of information, communication and cooperation technologies and theirs real-time and dependable applications, between academic researchers, practitioners and service providers, to review current trends and to discuss new research directions.
This new edition will be the seventh. Previous conferences were held in Vienna (Austria) 1995,1997, in Magdeburg (Germany), 1999, in Nancy (France), 2001, in Aveiro (Portugal), 2003 and in Puebla (Mexico), 2005.
FOCUS
- Distributed systems, Embedded systems, Multimedia systems, Networks, Heterogeneous networks, Internetworking, Network control, Networked Control Sytems;
- System integration, Interoperability;
- Real-Time (Hard, Soft), Performances, Fault-Tolerance, Dependability, Security, Performability.
MAIN TOPICS
- Networks: Fieldbuses, Wireless networks, Sensor networks, Industrial networks, IP networks, Satellite, Real-time networks, Services, Protocols, Scheduling, Routing
- Architecture: Layers, Cross-layering, Middleware (Communication, Cooperation), Quality of Service (QoS)
- Applications: Industrial, Robotic, Process control, Production systems, Embedded systems (avionic, train, automotive, ship), Building automation, Hospital, Healthcare systems
- Analysis: Formal modeling, Verification, Evaluation, Validation, Simulation, Links between QoS and application requirements, Tools
- Cases studies: From the specification to the implementation.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Two types of papers will be considered:
- Regular papers which report novel and significant contributions to the fields concerned by the conference.
- Work in progress papers which present recent ideas and on-going works related to the fields of the conference.
Authors are invited to submit electronically regular papers (double column, 6-8 pages) and work in progress papers (double column, not exceeding 4 pages).
The submission of the paper has to be done on this submission page.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AUTHORS
They are available at :
AUTHOR SCHEDULE: Important dates
Extension of the deadline :
- June 13, 2007: Submission of regular papers
- June 13, 2007: Submission of work in progress papers
- September 10, 2007: Notification of acceptance
- September 28, 2007: Camera ready version due
Copyright conditions
The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented at the Congress, Symposia and Conferences will be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Proceedings, by Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK. In the case of Workshops, papers duly presented will be archived by IFAC and may be offered for sale, in the form of Proceedings, by Workshop organizers. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals (Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Journal of Process Control Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Mechatronics), or in IFAC affiliated journals. All papers presented will be recorded as an IFAC Publication.
Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form. The IFAC Journals and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals within three months after the meeting, he/she is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
Conference Chairman
Guy Juanole (France)
Steering Committee
Dietmar Dietrich (Austria), José Alberto Fonseca (Portugal), Peter Neuman (Germany), Thilo Sauter (Austria), Herbert Schweinzer (Austria), Jean-Pierre Thomesse (France)
International Progam Committee
- Chairman : Miguel Leon Chavez (Mexico)
- Vice chairman : Christian Fraboul (France)
- Vice chairman (Industry) : Henry Sarthou (France)
Members
Affonso Guedes Luis (Brazil) Almeida Luis (Portugal) Cardeira Carlos (Portugal) Cena Gianluca (Italy) Decotignie Jean - Dominique (Switzerland) Dietrich Dietmar (Austria) Fischer Peter (Germany) Fonseca José Alberto (Portugal) Franco Lucia Regina (Brazil) Gayraud Thierry (France) Halang Wolfgang (Germany) Hancke Gerhard (South Africa) Hansson Hans (Sweden) Hong Jiman (South Korea) Kabitzsch Klaus (Germany) Kastner Wolfgang (Austria) Khakraborty Samarjit (Singapore) Koopman Philip (USA) Kuo Tei-Wei (Taiwan) Lepage Francis (France) Lo Bello Lucia (Italy) Mahlknecht Stefan (Austria) Marcos Marga (Spain) Misson Michel (France) Nakamoto Yukikazu (Japan) |
Navet Nicolas (France) Neumann Peter (Germany) Norström Christer (Sweden) Palensky Peter (Austria) Pereira Carlos (Brazil) Petters Stefan (Australia) Pimentel Juan (USA) Sauter Thilo (Austria) Schweinzer Herbert (Austria) Sempere Victor (Spain) Simonot-Lion Françoise (France) Simplot-Ryl David (France) Song YeQiong (France) Soucek Stefan (Austria) Suzuki Kenji (Japan) Thomesse Jean-Pierre (France) Tor Skeie (Norway) Tovar Eduardo (Portugal) Trinquet Yvon (France) Val Thierry (France) Vasques Francisco (Portugal) Vitturi Stefano (Italy) Willig Andreas (Germany) Wolisz Adam (Germany) Wollschläger Martin (Germany) |
National Organisation Committee
- Chairman : Guy Juanole (LAAS)
- Vice Chairman (Industry) : Henry Sarthou (AIRBUS)
- Members : Slim Abdellatif (LAAS), Pascal Berthou (LAAS),Marc Boyer (IRIT), Gina Briand (LAAS), Agnan De Bonneval (LAAS), Jérome Ermont (IRIT), Marie-José Fontagne (LAAS), Christian Fraboul (IRIT), Thierry Gayraud (LAAS), Delphine Maillet-Mongeau (LAAS), Gérard Mouney (LAAS), Jean-Luc Scharbarg (IRIT), Janan Zaytoon (IFAC,France)