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I n f o r m a t i o n c o n t r o l : a c o m p l e x c h a l l e n g e f o r t h e 2 1 s t c e n t u r y

The purpose of the IFAC Symposium on INFORMATION CONTROL PROBLEMS IN MANUFACTURING(INCOM’06) is to offer a forum to present the progress in international research and development workin this field. Special emphasis will be given on the applications of optimization methods as well asautomation, information and communication technologies in the control of the manufacturing plantand the entire supply chain within the e-enterprise. The symposium will stress the scientific challenges and issues raised by the Intelligent Manufacturing System and Supply Chain paradigms for optimization and agile digital control of the production systems. The whole product and processeslife cycle will be covered, from the design, through the manufacturing and maintenance, to the distribution and service.

_ e-Solutions to Plan and to Design Manufacuring Systems_ Facilities Planning and Materials Handling_ Inventory Control, Production Planning and Scheduling_ Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance of Manufacturing Systems_ Web-enabled Manufacturing Control and Wireless Automation_ Process Modeling and Information Systems within the Extended Enterprise_ Socio-technical and Cognitive Aspects of Automation_ Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Applications_ Distributed Systems and Multi-agents Technologies_ Discrete Event Systems Simulation in Manufacturing_ Operational Research Applications in CAD/CAM/CAE

Industrial enterprises will play an important role in the symposium. Technical workshops, roundtables dis-cussions, and even publications devoted to industrial contributions will be offered. In addition, an inno-vative industrial exhibition is planned. It will focus on the cutting edge of information technology andoptimization techniques for manufacturing control and industrial management.

This symposium opens a door on a wonderful opportunity to benchmark the latest innovations onBusiness Process Management, Operation Research Applications, Supply Chain Management Solutions,Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Information Systems, Technologies for e-Business and e-Manufacturing, Integration Technologies…

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IPC Chair

IPC Scientific Co-Chair

IPC Industrial Co-ChairGeneral Electric

USAT.L. JOHNSON

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FRG. MOREL

Honorary PresidentDirector of the ENSM.SE

General Scientific ChairDirector of the Division for Industrial Engineering and Computer Sciences

FRA. DOLGUI

FRR. GERMINETconferencechairs

P. ALBERTOS A. ARTIBAR.G. ASKIN Z.A. BANASZAK M. BARADJ.J. BARTHOLDI III M. BAYART P. BERTOKJ.P. BOURRIERES G. BRIGHT L.M. CAMARINHA-MATOS S. CAVALIERI D. CHEN L. CORBETT Y. CRAMA S. DAUZERE-PERES A. DELCHAMBRE H.H. ERBE E. EREL D. Mc FARLANE J.M. FAURE F.G. FILIPG. FINKE P. FLEMINGA.M. FLOREA

G. FREY S. FUJIIR. GLARDON K. GOLDBERG B. GRABOT P.P. GROUMPOSR. GRUBBSTRÖM J.N.D. GUPTA J.C. HENNET S.L. HWANG B. IUNG Z. JIANG T. KAIHARAA F. KLEIMENOVV.V. KULBA A. KUSIAKP. LADET G. LEVIN A. MARTEL L. MONOSTORIE. NAWARECKIA.Y.C. NEE C. O’BRIEN H. PANETTO A. PASHKEVICH

C.E. PEREIRA J.J. PINTO FERREIRA J.M PROTH H. ROTH A. RUANOS. SARINA. SMIRNOV S. SETHI J. STAHRE M. STAROSWIECKI M. TAISCHP. VALCKENAERS F. VERNADAT A. VILLA C. WANG L. WHITMAN D.J. WILLIAMSH. WORTMANNX. XIE O. ZAIKIN M. ZAREMBA J. ZAYTOON D. ZUEHLKE DE

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12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing

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main sponsor

International Federation on Automatic Control

on Manufacturing Plant ControlTC 5.1

IFAC

IFAC co-sponsorships

on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems

on Optimal Control

on Components and Instruments

on Mechatronic Systems

on Cost Oriented Automation

on Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control

on Enterprise Integration and Networking

on Large Scale Complex Systems

on Social Impact of AutomationIFAC TC 9.2

IFAC TC 5.4

IFAC TC 5.3

IFAC TC 5.2

IFAC TC 4.4

IFAC TC 4.2

IFAC TC 4.1

IFAC TC 2.4

IFAC TC 1.3

other sponsorships

Computer Aided Manufacturing

Integration in Production Management

Discrete Optimization

Société de l’Electricité, de l’Electronique, et des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication

Sciences et Techniques de la Production de Biens et de ServicesCNRS GDR MACS

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submissionof papers

Deadline for paper submission > October 1st, 2005Submission to special sessions > November 15, 2005Notification of paper acceptance/rejection > January 6, 2006Deadline for final version > March 1, 2006

Regular papers (6 pages in IFAC double column format) as well as plenary and survey papers (12 pagesin IFAC double column format) will be reviewed by at least two referees. As to regular papers, both aca-demic and industrial oriented communications will be considered. Industrial and scientific contributionswill be compiled into several volumes of INCOM06’s proceedings. Further submission instructions areavailable on the website.

publication ininternationaljournals

The papers included in proceedings will be further examined for possible publication in the IFAC Journals(Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Review in Control, and Engineering Applications ofArtificial Intelligence), or in IFAC affiliated journals (e.g. Real-Time Systems, Mechatronics). The papersnot considered for IFAC publications will be examined for publication in some Industrial Engineering,Operations Research and Computer Sciences Journals as International Journal of Production Economics,International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing andJournal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms. A complete list of journals associated to the sym-posium is available on the website.

IFAC Journals, and IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. If the sign-ing author has not been contacted for further publication within three months of the closing date of thesymposium, he and his co-authors are free to submit the paper elsewhere, provided that full acknowl-edgement is given in any subsequent publication to the original IFAC Proceedings and to the INCOM’06symposium.

preprints and proceedings

Preprints Volumes with all accepted papers will be published before symposium and will be provided forINCOM’06 participants. The final proceedings will be produced after the meeting and will only gatherthe papers presented at the symposium. The Proceedings are published by Elsevier Ltd as post-confe-rence books with an ISBN and will be kept on sale by the publisher for at least five years.

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nationalorganizingcommittee

Organizing Committee Chair ENSM.SE

Industrial Co-Chair ST MicroelectronicsFRR. RONCHI

FRX. BOUCHER

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Organized at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, by the IndustrialEngineering and Computer Sciences Division in collaboration with the Microelectronics Division and the Engineering and Health Division.

P. BEAUNE, X. BOUCHER, M. BEIGBEDER, X. BODDAERT, O. BOISSIER, P. BURLAT, J.P. CAMPAGNE, J.F. CHAMBON, A. CORBEL-BOURGEAT, X. DELORME, M.A. GIRARD, J.J. GIRARDOT, F. GRIMAUD, H. GUEGEN, P. JAILLON, R. JEGOU, P. LYONNET, E. MARCON, H. MARIAN, M. MATHIEU, Y. MATI, F. MAYER,A. PAUZE, M. ROELENS, X. SERPAGGI, G. SIX, R. TOSCANO, L. VERCOUTER, L. VINCENT.

The fees include an e-book of preprints (cd-rom), a hardback copy of preprints, symposium program,coffee breaks, lunches and banquet, scientific and industrial exhibitions.

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contact Xavier BoucherINCOM 2006 secretariat

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne158 Cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint-Etienne,Cedex 2, France

[ Tel ] 33 . 4. 77. 42.01.65[ Fax ] 33 . 4. 77. 42.66.66[ e-mail ] incom06@emse.fr

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hostorganization

The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (ENSM.SE) is ranked

perennially among the top ten GraduateEngineering Schools in France. Since 1816, theschool has been producing elite scientific man-agers. Based on close links with leading nationaland international firms, the School is reputed tobe one of the major applied research centers inFrance. Today, the school provides a general engi-neer cursus structured around six research cen-ters: the Industrial Engineering and ComputerScience, Process Engineering, EnvironmentalEngineering, Materials Science, MicroelectronicsEngineering, and Engineering and HealthDivision. Because research is fundamentally linkedto the raison d’être of the school, it must be com-petitive, efficient and highly regarded by the sci-entific community. Publications, scientific andindustrial conferences and recognition of ourexpertise contribute to the school’s reputation.

Under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry, theENSM.SE is entering the 21st century with a dyna-mic and innovative approach. Recently founded,both the Microelectronics Division in the new siteof Gardanne (2003) and the Engineering andHealth Division of Saint-Etienne (2004) demonstratethe school’s leadership in the forefront of hightechnology.

Emerging from the previous division SIMMO, theIndustrial Engineering and ComputerSciences Division (G2I division) was created onFebruary 2004. The industrial context, character-ized by the strong dynamics of change and bynovel organizational modes, induces the need fornew methods of industrial management.Optimization techniques, communication andinformation science and technologies are at theheart of this revolution. Directed by Pr. AlexandreDolgui G2I division of Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne is specializing on development ofOperational Research, Artificial Intelligence andManagement Sciences methods for optimizationof production and logistics systems. With a strongindustrial technology transfer policy, the researchat G2I Division attempts to answer the industrialneeds with cooperative and «nimble» solutionswhich are the keys of the competitiveness. In thefield of operational research, G2I division is cur-rently working on new optimization methods forload balancing, new approaches for schedulingand supply planning under lead time uncertaintyor novel solutions for the dimensioning of inven-tory levels and for the selection of equipment. G2Ihas also developed a high level national expertiseon the diagnosis and management of networks offirms and of distributed supply chains. In the fieldof IT technologies applied to the e-manufacturingprocess, G2I Division is specialized in multi-agentsystems, ambient intelligence and web-basedtechnologies (including semantic web, informa-tion retrieval, trust and confidence in numericaldocuments).

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Saint-Etienne, a cultural metropolis at the door of wonderful natural park

The era of coal mining and metal working firmly belongs to Saint-Etienne’s past. The city has clearly evolved towards aneconomy based on new technologies. However, the city hasn’t for-gotten his remarkable industrial history. It is the only city in Franceselected as historical city for the 19th century. Beyond the Art andIndustry National Museum with its unique collection of elaborateweaponry, unusual bicycles and braided ribbons, a complete industrialheritage is there to be visited.

Saint-Etienne does not only have a rich industrial past but anexciting cultural present. Retaining undiminished spirit of daringinnovation, the town seems on the verge of becoming the design capital of the world. The design heritage was the impetus behind thecreation, in 1998, of the biennial international festival of design,which was an immediate success (150 000 visitors in 2002). With aninternationally renowned Modern Art Gallery, Saint-Etienne offers anexceptional cultural center completed with a plethora of cafés, theatres, clubs and restaurants.

Situated at only 60 km from Lyon, Saint-Etienne is at the cross-roads of the major French motorways making easily accessiblecities like Geneva, Marseilles, Paris and region like the Alps,Drôme and Provence. The region of Saint-Etienne has much to offer.With a town center situated a stone’s throw from the Pilat a regionalNature Park, the Forez mountains and the gorges of the River Loire,Saint-Etienne will give you a direct access to wonderful landscape withmedieval villages and old stone castles scattered around. In the middle of the regional park, Saint Victor water sport center will giveyou all the opportunities of sailing, water-skiing or canoeing.

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the 190th anniversary of the INCOM Host > ENSM.SE

Founded during the restoration, the ENSM.SE was created by Royal decree on the 2nd August 1816. The ENSM.SE quickly built a elite school reputation, in the 19th century. Throughout the 20th century,

the School did not cease to develop and grow under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry.

In 2006, the IFAC INCOM’06 Symposium will be dedicated to ENSM.SE’s jubilee with specific events during the symposium.

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