2nd Special Session on "Self-X and Autonomous Control in Engineering Applications"

                                                                                                                        on the

                                                          9th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics

                                                                                                              July 26-29 2011

                                  Accepted papers will be published in and IEEE proceedings volume and included in IEEE Explore                                                                                                   

                                                                                              

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The increasing adoption of methods from computational intelligence, biologically inspired computing, and optimization in engineering

disciplines such as mechatronics or production enables the development of a new class of autonomous systems. These systems often

possess abilities which are best describe by the phrase Self-X: Self-Optimization, Self-Coordination, Self-Healing, Self-Repair

and many more.

                                                               

These properties have in common that they shift decision making from humans to the technical systems. This shift has two possible

benefits. First, decision made during the design of the system can be delayed until operation and thus the system is able to react more

flexible to different application requirements. Second, the human effort in managing such systems can be reduced and the corresponding

systems are more cost-efficient. This special session is dedicated to this new type of systems in the various engineering applications.

                                                                              

The special Session addresses the following topics:

                                                                             

-------------------------------Application Examples of Self-X and Autonomous Control--------------------------------------------------

* Mechatronics and Robotics

* Cyber Physical System

* Vehicle Technology

* Production Systems and Supply Chain Management

* and related applications

                                                                             

------------------------------Algorithms and Methods for Self-X and Autonomous Control------------------------------------------------

* Autonomous Planning and Scheduling

* Agent-Based Systems, Multiagent-Systems, Holonic Control Systems

* Modelling Uncertainty, Optimization and Planning under Uncertainty

* Multi-Objective Optimization and Mulit-Criteria Optimization

* Machine Learning and Data Mining

* Model Identification and Fuzzy Expert Systems

* Biologically inspired Methods: Ant-Based Optimization, Artificial Immune Systems, Evolutionary Computing, etc.

* and related methods

                                                                             

------------------------------Platform Technologies for Self-X and Autonomous Control------------------------------------------------

* Reconfigurable Hardware

* Systen Software for Self-x  and Autonomous Control

* Distributed Control

* Flexible Resource Management in Embedded Systems

* Self-Healing Embedded Systems

* Wireless Sensor Networks

* and related technologies

                                                                             

-------------------------------Design Methodologies for Self-X and Autonomous Control-------------------------------------------------

* Reference Process for Design and Development of Systems with Self-X Properties and Autonomous Control

* Formal Verification

* System Validation

* Evaluation methods for Self-X and Autonomous Control

* Solution Patterns for Self-X and Autonomous Control

                                                                             

********************Important Dates********************

Deadline for Full Paper Submission      February 4,2011

Acceptance Notification                 March   21,2011

Final Paper Deadline                    April   25,2011

********************Important Dates********************

                                                                             

                                                                              

Paper Submission via the submission system of IEEE INDIN 2011: http://www.uninova.pt/indin2011/

                                                                             

For further information about Self-X see http://wwwhni.uni-paderborn.de/self-x-in-engineering/ or contact the special session organizers:

self-x@hni.upb.de.                                                      

                                                                              

Mareen Vaßholz                                                                        

Heinz Nixdorf Institute                                                                                        

University of Paderborn                              

Germany                                                                                                                                                            & nbsp;              

Dr. Benjamin Klöpper                        

DAAD Researcher,

National Insitute of Informatics

Tokyo, Japan

 

Prof. Kenji Tei

GRACE Center, National Insitute of Informatics

Tokyo, Japan

 

***************************Prelimnary Program Comitee (to be extended)**************************************************

Albers, Albert, Institut für Produktentwicklung, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Carsten Böhle, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Wilhelm Dangelmaier, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Universität Paderborn, Germany

Steven De Jong, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Andre Döring, Hochschule Merseburg, Germany

Dumitrescu, Roman, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany

Frank, Ursula, Beckhoff Automation, Germany

Jan Erik Gans, Daimler AG, Germany

Jürgen Gausemeier, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany

Norbert Gronau, Universität Potsdam, Germany

Hahn, Martin, iXtronics GmbH, Germany

Bernd Hellingrath, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Martin Hirsch, Fraunhofer-Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik ISST, Germany

Irohara, Takashi, Sophia University

Kahl, Sascha, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany

Kaiser, Ingo, Miele & Cie, Germany

Benjamin Klöpper, DAAD Researcher, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo

Low, Cheng Yee, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Kiran Mahajan, Toyota Motor Company, Belgium

Hisam Mubarak, BASF SE, Germany

Ober-Blöbaum, Sina, University of Paderborn, Germany

Oberthür, Simon, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany

Herbert Podlogar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Sachenbacher, Martin, TU München, Germany

Alexander Schmidt, Arnzt Optibelt, Germany

Achim Schmidtmann, Fachhoschule Dortmund, Germany

Sachenbacher, Martin, TU München, Germany

Kenji Tei GRACE Center, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Matthias Tichy, Universität Augsburg, Germany

Mareen Vaßholz, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany

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