European Concurrent Engineering Conference 2001
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

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The SCS European Concurrent Engineering Conference 2001 is structured around ten major topics. There will be parallel lecture sessions and also poster sessions. Papers suitable for poster presentations are those that require interactive discussion; otherwise, poster and lecture presentations carry equal weight.

The conference language is English.

A special student/university tutorial will be organized.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers reporting original work in all areas of Concurrent Engineering. Submissions for regular sessions (lecture or poster) include, but not limited to, the following topics:

1 E-Business in CE
1.1 Organizational influences of e-business
1.2 B2B business models for inter-organizational CE
1.3 Migration to e-business based CE
1.4 E-business applications for CE
1.5 B2B portals for CE
1.6 Emerging standards (e.g. XML)

2 Organisation and management
2.1 Principles of CE
2.2 Multi-disciplined team-working and project team organisation
2.3 Global product development and international collaboration
2.4 Life-cycle cost and quality
2.5 Business process re-engineering and outsourcing
2.6 Supply chain management
2.7 Measurement of profitability by the introduction of CE

3 Implementation techniques
3.1 Digital mock-up, rapid and virtual prototyping
3.2 Distributed and co-operative product development
3.3 Costs, implications and pitfall of CE
3.4 Synthetic environments and simulation on the factory floor
3.5 Reverse engineering
3.6 Assembly and disassembly
3.7 High precision manufacturing
3.8 Sensor and robot assisted machining

4 Formal methods and techniques
4.1 Quality function deployment
4.2 Total quality management
4.3 Global optimization techniques and hybrid approaches

5 Process modeling
5.1 Process planning in continuous, discrete and hybrid processes
5.2 Process modeling, monitoring and control
5.3 Diagnostics and maintenance
5.4 Automated inspection and quality control
5.5 Production planning and control

6 Engineering data management and information modeling
6.1 Integration of geometrical data and product definition (bills of material)
6.2 Product data interchange (PDI) and standards
6.3 Data handling, distribution and transformation
6.4 Data version control and management
6.5 Corporate technical memory
6.6 Design rationale and intent

7 Engineering process management
7.1 Engineering process modeling
7.2 CE metrics
7.3 CE process planning, scheduling and simulation
7.4 Workflow-management in CE
7.5 Project and team co-ordination

8 Collaborative CE environments for virtual teams
8.1 Cooperative problem solving
8.2 CSCW methods and tools
8.3 Information and application sharing
8.4 Computer-based video and audio conferencing and consulting
8.5 Conflict resolution techniques
8.6 Constraint management
8.7 Negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architecture

9 Networking and distribution in CE
9.1 CORBA based environments and integrated frameworks
9.2 Architectures for building CE systems
9.3 CE languages and tools
9.4 Distributed computing environments
9.5 WWW based CE systems

10 Practical applications and experiences
10.1 Practical solutions
10.2 Systematic guide-lines
10.3 Pitfalls and success stories
10.4 Case studies, pilot projects and experiments
10.5 E-business applications in CE


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