CONFERENCE Title: 12th IFAC Workshop on DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS Date: 28--30 September 1994 Abbreviation: DCCS'94 Place: Toledo, Spain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________________________ | | | 12th IFAC Workshop on | | | | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS | | | | DCCS'94 | | | | Toledo, Spain, 28--30 September, 1994 | | | | FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS | | | |________________________________________________________________| SPONSORED BY: International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Technical Committee on Computers. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chair: Prof. M.G. Rodd University of Wales, Swansea SA2 8PP United Kingdom E-mail: eerodd@pyr.swan.ac.uk Members: A. Bondavalli (Italy) A. Burns (United Kingdom) A. Crespo (Spain) F. Cristian (USA F. DePaoli (Italy) M. A. Inamoto (Japan) H. Kopetz (Austria) W.H. Kwon (Korea) G. Le Lann (France) I. MacLeod (South Africa) A. Mok (USA) L. Motus (Estonia) S. Narita (Japan) D. Powell (France) R. Puigjaner (Spain) K. Ramamrithan(USA) R. Reyero (Spain) G. Suski (USA) T. Williams (USA) G. Zhao (Singapore) NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Prof. J.A. de la Puente ETSI Telecomunicacion Universidad Politecnica de Madrid E-28040 Madrid, Spain E-mail: jpuente@gic.tat.upm.es Members: A. Alonso S. Dormido A. Jimenez J.A. Cerrada SCOPE The Workshop will consist of formal presentations, discussion and informal meetings covering recent advances and current issues in theory, applications, and technology of distributed computer control systems. The topics to be covered include, but are not restricted to: * The role of real-time in DCSS specifications. * Analysis and design methods for DCCS, including software design methods for predictable behaviour. * Scheduling methods for DCCS. * Real-time distributed operating systems and databases. * Real-time communication system architectures. * Current and future impact of advanced computer system architectures. * Testing and validation of DCCS, including timing properties. * Dependability issues of DCCS. * Industrial applications and experience with DCCS. PARTICIPATION Attendance will be limited by invitation to a maximum of 60 participants. Preference will be given to those who submit abstracts or express interest in organising specific sessions or panel discussions. Participants are requested to register in advance not later than 30 June 1994. LOCATION Toledo is located 70 km south of Madrid. It can be easily reached by train or motor car from Madrid. LANGUAGE English will be the working language for the workshop and will be used for all printed material, presentations and discussions. No simultaneous translation will be provided. EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Offers of papers are welcomed from individuals and groups on the topics outlined above. Five copies of an extended abstract (1000--2000 words) should be received by the workshop secretariat not later than 1 March 1994. Please include e-mail and fax number with the author's address. The invitations to the Workshop will be based on the assessment of the extended abstracts by the Programme Committee. The abstracts should outline the contribution that the author intends to make at the Workshop. PAPERS Full papers are to be prepared according to the instructions that will be sent to the authors together with the letter of invitation. Accepted papers must be presented in person at the Workshop. Each registered participant will be provided with a copy of the preprint volume including all accepted papers. COPYRIGHT The copyright of all accepted papers is automatically transferred to IFAC. Papers published in IFAC preprint volumes will also be considered for publication in the IFAC Journals Automatica and Control Engineering Practice , which have priority access to all such material. ORGANIZERS DCCS'94 is an IFAC event organized by CEA-IFAC, the Spanish National Member Organization of IFAC, with the support of: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia. Fundacion Universidad-Empresa. Ada-Spain. CORRESPONDENCE All correspondence should be addressed to: DCCS'94 Secretariat Fundacion Universidad-Empresa Serrano Jover, 5-7 E-28015 Madrid, Spain Tel: +34 1 542 9003 Fax: +34 1 547 0652 E-mail: dccs94@gic.tat.upm.es - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstracts due by ...................... 1 March 1994 Selection and invitation ....................... 15 May 1994 Registration ................................... 30 June 1994 Full papers due by ............................. 30 June 1994 Workshop ............................... 28--30 September 1994 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED EVENT The 2nd IFAC/IFIP/IMACS Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Control (AIRTC'94) will be held in Valencia, 3-5 October, 1994 . ============================================================================== DCCS'94 Reply form Please send this form before 1 March 1994 Name: ______________________________________ First name: ________________ Position: _______________________________________________________________ Organization: ___________________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Postal Code: ______________City: ________________________________________ Country: ________________________________________________________________ Fax: __________________________ Phone: _____________________________ E-mail: ________________________________________________________________ _ |_| I am planning to attend the DCCS'94 Workshop |_| I intend to submit an abstract. 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