SXACEA 2011

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 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-- --Algorihtms and Methods for Self-X and Autonomous Control --Platform Technologies for Self-X and Autononmous Control ---Design Methodologies for Self-X and Autonomous Control- Deadline for Full Paper Submission     February 4,2011 Acceptance Notification                March   21,2011 Final Paper Deadline                   April   25,2011 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 Dr. Benjamin Klöpper DAAD Researcher, National Insitute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan
 * Mechatronics and Robotics
 * Cyber Physical System
 * Vehicle Technology
 * Production Systems and Supply Chain Management
 * and related applications
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
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Prof. Kenji Tei GRACE Center, National Insitute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan

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