Connectionists: ** EXTENDED DEADLINE** CfP Key Enabling Technologies for Virtual Factories (KET4VF)

[gcabri@unimore.it]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Key Enabling Technologies for Virtual Factories (KET4VF)
http://didattica.agentgroup.unimore.it/KET4VF18/

Invited session at 22nd International Conference on Knowledge-Based and 
Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES)

Belgrade, Serbia, September 3-5 2018
http://kes2018.kesinternational.org

******* EXTENDED DEADLINES

Abstract registration & full paper submission:
    May 2, 2018 (23:59 CEST)
Authors Notification:
    May 21, 2018

*******


Scope and Overview
==================

The manufacturing industry is entering a new era in which new ICT 
technologies and collaboration applications will be integrated with 
traditional manufacturing practices and processes to increase 
flexibility and sustainability in manufacturing, mass customization, 
increase automation, better quality and to improve productivity. The 
virtual factory paradigm plays a key role in the achievement of these 
objectives. A virtual factory is defined as a multi-layered integration 
of the information related to various activities along the factory and 
product lifecycle manufacturing related resources. A central aspect of a 
virtual factory is that of enabling the product lifecycle stakeholders 
to collaborate through the use of software solutions. The virtual 
factory thus expands outside the actual company boundaries and offers 
the opportunity for the business and its suppliers to collaborate on 
business processes that affect the supply chain.

This session seeks at providing the opportunity for inspiration and 
cross-fertilization for
the research groups working on technological solutions for virtual 
factories. It will welcome innovative papers from academic and 
industrial researchers covering a wide range of topics of interests in 
the computer science and computer engineering fields. The topics include 
but are not limited to:
- Cloud computing
- Big data architectures
- Real-time systems
- Data analytics
- Digital Security, Privacy and Liability
- Digital Platform Interoperability
- Service-Oriented Architectures
- Multi-agent systems
- Business Process Management
- Internet-of-things

Important dates
===============
- Paper Submission May 2, 2018 (23:59 CEST) - Extended
- Notification May 21, 2018
- Camera Ready May 28, 2018
- Session September 3-5, 2018

Submission
==========
Papers are expected to be 8 to 10 pages (maximum) in the conference format.

Accepted papers will be published in Elsevier's Procedia Computer 
Science open access journal (available in ScienceDirect and submitted to 
be indexed/abstracted in CPCI, Engineering Index, and Scopus - to be 
confirmed).

Details, guides and templates can be found in the KES submission 
instruction page:
http://kes2018.kesinternational.org/submission.php

Chairs
======
- Federica Mandreoli, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 
Italy, Email: federica.mandreoli at unimore.it
- Giacomo Cabri, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 
Italy, Email: giacomo.cabri at unimore.it


This session is supported by Marie-Curie RISE Project "FIRST: vF 
Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovation"

-- 

|----------------------------------------------------|
| Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Full Professor
| Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche
| Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
| e-mail giacomo.cabri at unimore.it
| tel. +39-059-2058320  fax +39-059-2055216
|----------------------------------------------------|