Contributed by: G. Zardetto email: zardetto@cra.enel.it
                ENEL/SRI  - Automatica Research Center

We have collaborated with other partners to the
organization  of  the Sixth European Conference on
Cognitive Science Approaches to Process Control
(CSAPC '97).
The conference will be held  in  Baveno, Italy,
September 23-26, 1997.

Conference Chair is Sebastiano Bagnara (Italy)

THE CONFERENCE

Cognitive Science Approaches to Process Control
(CSAPC) is a conference series initiated by a number of
well-known experts in cognitive psychology, man-
machine systems, and AI research. The purpose of the
CSAPC conference is to bring together researchers
from different disciplines to present and discuss recent
results regarding socio-technical problems in the control
of complex environments.
The theme of the sixth CSAPC conference to be held in
Baveno, Italy, September 23-26, 1997 is "Time and
space in process control".
Process control can be said to encompass time and
space in several ways. Firstly, dynamic processes are
themselves distributed in both time and space. They
evolve and change over time and the processes take
place in systems that are constituted of physically
distributed subsystems and components. The
distributions in time and space may easily cover five
orders of magnitude.
Secondly, to properly control the processes operators
must have an adequate understanding of both time and
space. This understanding must match the time/space
characteristics of the physical process well enough for
actions to be planned and carried out. Furthermore, time
itself is important for the control of the process, as
thinking and planning use time which  thereby  is lost.
Finally, the design of the interfaces between people and
processes must encompass both time and space. The
interface must provide an adequate representation of
the dynamics and the topology of the process. In
addition, the interface medium itself will have temporal
and spatial features that designers must take into
account.

PROGRAMME

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
16.00   Registration
19.00   Welcome cocktail

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
08. 00  Registration continues
08.45   Opening
09.00   Session1: Organization and Process
        Control
10.30   Poster Session 1: Theories and Models in
        Process Control
11.00   Coffee-break
11.30   Session 2: Human Error and System
        Reliability
13.00   Lunch
14.30   Interactive Session 1: Cooperation and
        Process Control
16.00   Coffee-break
16.30   Session 3: Human Error and System
        Reliability

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
09.00   Session 4: Process control in aviation
10.30   Poster Session 2: Tools and Practices in
        Process Control
11.00   Coffee-break
11.30   Session 5: Process control and decision
        making
13.00   Lunch
14.30   Interactive Session 2: Individuals and
        Process Control
16.00   Coffee-break
16.30   Session 6: Process control and decision
        making
17.30   EACE - Annual General meeting
20.30   Social Dinner

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
09.00   Session 7: Design for process control
10.30   Coffee-break
11.00   General discussion
12.00   Lunch
13.30   Technical visit toTrino Leri Thermoelectrical
        Power Plant


The complete documentation of this conference is
available at:
http://www.cra.enel.it/csapc97