CONFERENCE

Title:		IFAC WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATION OF PROCESS DESIGN AND CONTROL
Date:		27-28 June 1994
Abbreviation:	IPDC'94
Place:		Baltimore, MD, USA

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			IFAC WORKSHOP ON 
		INTEGRATION OF PROCESS DESIGN AND CONTROL

			** Call for Papers **

			June 27-28, 1994 
			Baltimore, MD

The Workshop will be held in conjuction with the 1994 American Control
Conference, on the Monday and Tuesday of the week of the ACC.

			Workshop Theme

The existence of interactions between the design of a process and that of its 
control system have been known to industrial practitioners for a long time. In 
the past decade academic research  has produced methodologies and tools that 
begin to address the issue of designing processes that are flexible, can be 
controlled reliably and are inherently safe. The purpose of this Workshop is to 
bring together academics and practitioners with interests in the integration of 
process design and control, in order to examine the state of the art in 
methodologies and applications.  Papers highlighting industrial experience or 
comparisons between theoretical predictions and experimental observations are 
particularly welcome.  The scope of the Workshop will cover the design of 
chemical plants at different stages of detail. It will also examine control 
issues from the plantwide level, where, for example, recycles between units can 
be important, to the specific unit level, where the availability or selection 
of measurements might be the most important factor.

Some of the topics that will be considered are:
-Simultaneous process and control system design
-Controllability analysis
-Design for flexibility, resilience and operability
-Design and control for inherent safety
-Structure selection of the process control system
-Optimization of process design and operation
-Measurement selection and availability
-Design and scheduling of batch plants
-Hazard and operability studies

			Publication of Papers

The submitted material must be original, not published or being considered
elsewhere.

Preprints of the meeting will be distributed to all attendees on-site. Plans
are for the Preprint volume to have an ISBN number.
Subject to IFAC approval, a special issue of the journal Computers and Chemical 
Engineering will also be published. This issue will include up to 20 papers, 
which will indergo a rigorous review process.

			Registration Information

Registration will be handled through the 1994 American Control Conference.
If you have not received the ACC Advance Program in 1993, please inform the
contact person at the address below, to ensure inclusion on the mailing list.

DEADLINES

-September 15, 1993:	deadline for abstracts (400-600 words);
-December 15, 1993:	authors to be notified about conditional acceptance;
-March 1, 1994:	 	submission of papers in camera-ready form;
-April 1, 1994:	 	notification of final acceptance.

Please send abstracts (5 copies) to the following address.  All those interested
in the Workshop are requested to indicate their interest to contribute a paper 
or attend by sending a note as early as possible.

Prof. Evanghelos Zafiriou
Institute for Systems Research
A. V. Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
U.S.A.
FAX: +1-301-314-9920
e-mail: zafiriou@src.umd.edu