Second call for papers

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                                                SECOND CALL  F O R  P A P E R S

                                                                                
                                Data integration in Engineering

                                                                                
Special track in 10th ISPE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING:  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                        RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS (CE'2003)

                                                                                
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                                                                        JULY, 
26-30, 2003

                                                                                
                        Carlton Madeira Hotel, Madeira Island - Portugal

                                                                                
                                        www.ispe-net.org/ce2003

                                                                                
                          Submission deadline (extended) : March 15 th 2003 
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Outline

Engineering activities rely on a wide variety of data sources all over the 
world and are performed by means of a wide variety of computer-supported 
engineering systems. Capability to integrate data from various sources, to 
share data across several tasks, to exchange engineering data between various 
organizations is one of the key factor for increasing productivity and 
efficiency of engineering activities. Electronic commerce in the engineering 
world requires not only that products might be ordered but also that they might 
be searched and compared by computers systems and that all their technical 
descriptions be available in computer-interpretable representations. This data 
integration problem cuts across all the layers of data management: semantic 
level, schematic representation, modeling and querying languages, data storage 
and transaction processing. This challenge has to be faced for any kind of 
engineering information domain: product data (shared digital mock up and pro!
 duct life cycle support), component data (component libraries and catalogues, 
B2B e-commerce) and process data (workflow management and CE).

The purpose of this track is to bring together researchers, engineers, standard 
developers and practitioners interested in the advance and application of 
information integration in engineering 

Major topics of this track 

Papers proposing new approaches, survey papers indicating future directions, 
and papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques or 
case studies are encouraged. Contributions on open and standard-based 
architectures will be appreciated. Papers describing original work are invited 
in any area of data integration in engineering, including but not limited to 
the list of topics below that should correspond to particular sessions:

· Integration architectures 
· Data schema integration and evolution techniques 
· Data sharing 
· Modeling, querying and exchange languages
· Technical ontologies, dictionaries and semantic engineering services
· E-engineering and B2B electronic commerce
· Engineering component data bases and catalogues

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers, not exceeding 
5000 words, representing original, previously unpublished work. 

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, 
significance, 
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. 

Please submit the PDF version of your manuscript to 
CE2003-fQNkp53SjGE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx indicating the session you want to submit 
your paper. Details on paper presentation are given on the conference site.

This track also encourages demonstration proposals and will reserve a slot of 
time and an area for them. Demonstration proposals should be focused on new 
tools concerning any aspect of data integration in engineering. Demonstration 
proposals must be no more than three pages, and should give a short description 
of the demonstrated system, explain what is going to be demonstrated, and state 
the significance of the contribution. 

All accepted papers will be published as an ISBN numbered book with 
accompanying CD by A.A. Balkema Publishers and will be printed before the 
conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 10, 2003 Deadline to submit full papers (special date for this track)
March 31, 2003 Notification of acceptance mailed 
April 14, 2003 Deadline for final camera ready full paper


CHAIR

Guy Pierra, LISI, ENSMA - France

CO-CHAIRS

America:        John Messina - NIST, USA
Gerry Radack, Concurrent Technologies -  USA
Asia-Pacific:    Hiroshi Murayama, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center - Japan
Europe:         Yamine Ait-Ameur, LISI, Univ. Poitiers - France

Session 1: Integration architectures
Mediators, Wrappers, Data Warehouse, Meta-approaches, Multidatabases, Federated 
Databases, Data and Processes Integration in Engineering, Case Studies, 
Applications.
Session co-chairs : 
Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla - USA
Danielle Boulanger, Univ Lyon 3 - France
Anne Doucet, LIP6, Univ Paris 6 - France

Session 2: Data schema integration and evolution techniques 
Semantic Integration, Modelling Context, Schematic Integration, Top-down and 
Bottom-up Approaches, Local-As-View, Global-as-View, Specialisation, 
Interpretation, Modularity, Languages for Schema Integration , Versioning, 
Dynamic Evolution, Data Migration.
Session co-chairs  :
Gerry Radack, Concurrent Technologies - USA 
Günter Staub, PDTec GmbH - Germany 
Yamine Ait Ameur, LISI, Univ. Poitiers - France

Session 3:  Data sharing 
Distributed and Centralised Approaches, Data Partitioning, Data Exchange, 
Transaction Management, Lock Management, Concurrency Control, Synchronisation, 
PDM (Product Data Management systems) and PLCS (Product Life-Cycle Support 
systems), Web Technologies, Case Studies, Applications.
Session co-chairs:  
Matthew West, Shell Centre - U. K.
Ladjel Bellatreche, LISI, Univ. Poitiers-France


Session 4:  Modeling, querying and exchange languages
Formal Modeling Language, Constraints Representation, Meta-Modeling, Innovative 
Use of EXPRESS, UML+OCL, Transactional Models for Querying, Distributed 
Queries, Meta-programming, Component and Product Query Languages, XML-based 
data exchange 
Session co-chairs  :
Hiroshi Murayama, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center - Japan 
Jean Bezivin, Univ. Nantes - France
Mohand-Said Hacid, Univ. Lyon I - France  


Session 5: Technical ontologies, dictionaries and semantic engineering services
Formal Ontology's, Languages for Ontology Representation, Ontology Engineering, 
Semantic Checking, Property Verification, Descriptive Logic, Ontology Sharing, 
Mapping and Translations, Ontology-Based Data Exchange, Engineering Web Services
Session co-chairs  :
Frans van Noesel, Philips Semiconductors - The Netherlands
Jean-Marc Saglio, ENST, Paris - France
Guy Pierra, LISI, ENSMA - France


Session 6: E-engineering and B2B electronic commerce
e-Business Protocols, e-Procurement, Locating Trading Partners, Request 
Representation, Exchange of Component Description, Exchange of Product 
Description, e-Commerce Infrastructure, Standardisation.
Session co-chairs  :
John Messina - NIST, USA 
Karlapalem Kamalakar - India
Habiba Drias, Univ. STHB, Alger, Algeria

Session 7: Engineering component data base and catalogues
Data-oriented and Document-Oriented Approaches, Component Knowledge 
Representation, Component Behaviour, Component selection, Catalogues 
Integration, Standardization, PLIB, Case Studies, Applications.
Session co-chairs  :
Wolfgang Wilkes, University of Hagen, Germany
Genoveva Vargas Solar, LSR-IMAG, Grenoble - France

Program Committee 

Yamine Ait Ameur, LISI, Univ. Poitiers - France
Ladjel Bellatreche, LISI, Univ. Poitiers - France
Jean Bezivin, Univ. Nantes - France
Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Danielle Boulanger, Univ Lyon 3 - France
Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle, Univ. Savoie - France
Anne Doucet, LIP6, Univ Paris6 - France
Habiba Drias, Univ. STHB Alger, -Algeria
Mohand-Said Hacid, Univ. Lyon I - France  
Karlapalem Kamalakar - IIIT - India
Tim King, LSC Group - U. K.
Qing Li, City University, Hong Kong - China
Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla - USA
John Messina - NIST, USA 
Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab - India 
Hiroshi Murayama, Toshiba Corporate R&D Center - Japan 
Frans van Noesel, Philips Semiconductors - The Netherlands
Mourad Oussalah, Univ. Nantes - France
Herve Panetto, CRAN, Univ Nancy - France 
Guy Pierra, LISI, ENSMA - France
Gerry Radack, Concurrent Technologies - USA 
Dominique Rieu, Univ. Grenoble - France
Jean-Marc Saglio, ENST, Paris - France
Michel Schneider, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand - France
Ana Simonet, Univ. Grenoble - France
Günter Staub, PDTec GmbH  - Germany 
Genoveva Vargas Solar, LSR-IMAG, Grenoble - France
Michel Tollenaere, INPG, Grenoble - France
Matthew West, Shell IT International, London - U. K.
Wolfgang Wilkes, University of Hagen - Germany
Junfeng Zhan, CNIS, Beijing - China
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