Subcommittee on Development Methodology for Industrial Communication and Automated Manufacturing Systems   Chair: Guy Juanole, LAAS & Universite de Paul Sabatier, France Scope: Design Methodology and tools, Modeling and verification languages, System validation approaches and tools, Hybrid Systems, Simulation, System performance analysis: Semi-Markov Processes, Queuing Networks, Perturbation Analysis, Concurrent Engineering, Rapid Prototyping.

Guy Juanole Dr. Guy Juanole is a Professor at the University of Toulouse III and Researcher at the laboratory LAAS – CNRS ( National Center for the Scientific Research ) in France. His main research activities involve the area of distributed real time systems and communication networks; focus on the use, during the design and analysis phases, of formal description techniques for formal verification and Quality of Service (QoS) evaluation. For the past four years he has been working in the area of Networked Control Systems (study of the links between the QoS and the performances (stability) of Control Applications). Dr. Juanole served as general and technical chairman of several international conferences: PNPM 1993, WFCS 1997 and WFCS 2000, as well as the French conferences RTS 1996 and MSR 2001.  Contact email address: g.juanole@iestcfa.org