Subcommittee on  Networked Embedded Systems in Industrial & Factory Automation Chairs: Roberto Passerone, University of Trento, Italy Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA Scope: Networked Embedded Systems Technology; Wireless Sensor Networks; Sensor Technology; Cyber Physical Systems; Design and Implementation; Design Methodologies and Tools; Models of Computation and Formal Methods; Hardware/Software Co-Design; IP Cores and Platforms; System on Chip and Architectures; Languages; Power Supply and Management; Data Integration and Fusion; Communication Modes; Quality of Service control; Case studies (industrial automation, automotive, avionics, communications...) Roberto Passerone received the Laurea degree summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1994, and the Master's and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997 and 2004, respectively. From 1998 to 2005, he was with Cadence Design Systems, Berkeley, California, where he held various positions from Senior Member of Technical Staff in the System Level Design product group, to Research Scientist in the Cadence Berkeley Laboratories. Since 2006 he is Assistant Professor with the Department of Information and Communication Technology at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy. His research interests include the design and implementation of high performance microprocessor, system level design, communication design and formal methods. In particular, he has worked on the design of custom and semi-custom high performance dedicated parallel architectures for image and signal processing. Later, he has focused on design methodologies for embedded hardware-software systems and on the synthesis and verification of low level protocol converters and communication design, applying these techniques to the automatic generation of transactors for mixed transaction-based and RTL-based simulation. At the same time, he has investigated the design of on-chip reliable clock distribution networks in the face of process variations. Currently, his interests include the development of contract and interface-based modeling techniques for the design of heterogeneous and hybrid embedded systems, with particular focus on the problem of integration of different models of computation and the verification of compatibility.

Contact email address: r.passerone@iestcfa.org   Richard Zurawski is with ISA Group, San Francisco, CA,  involved in providing solutions to 1000 Fortune companies. Dr. Zurawski is a co-founder of the Institute for Societal Automation, Santa Clara, a research and consulting organization. He has over 30 years of academic and industrial experience, including a regular professorial appointment at the Institute of Industrial Sciences, University of Tokyo, and full-time R&D advisor with Kawasaki Electric, Tokyo. He has provided consulting services to Kawasaki Electric, Ricoh, and Toshiba Corporations, Japan. He has participated in a number of Japanese Intelligent Manufacturing Systems programs. Dr. Zurawski’s involvement in R&D and consulting projects and activities in the past few years included network-based solutions for factory floor control, network-based demand side management, Java technology, SEMI implementations, wireless applications, IC design and verification, EDA, and embedded systems integration. Dr. Zurawski is the series editor for The Industrial Information Technology (book) Series, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He has served as Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2005-2006); has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (1994 – 2005);  Real-Time Systems; The International Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1997-2003), The International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, World Scientific Publishing Company (1996-1997). He was a Guest Editor of three special sections in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics on factory automation and factory communication systems. He was also a Guest Editor of a special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE dedicated to Industrial Communication Systems. Dr. Zurawski was invited by IEEE Spectrum to contribute an article on Java technology to “Technology 1999: Analysis and Forecast Issue". He is a Senior Member, IES AdCom; he served as a Vice President of the Industrial Electronics Society (1994-1997), Chairman of the IES Factory Automation Council (1994-1997), and currently Chairman of the IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation. He was also on a steering committee of the ASME/IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. In 1996, he received the Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He has served as a general (co-)chair for 13 IEEE  conferences and workshops; technical program co-chair for 4 IEEE conferences; track (co-)chair for 12 IEEE conferences;  member of program committees of over 40 IEEE, IFAC, and others, conferences and workshops. Dr. Zurawski has established two major technical events: IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Dr Zurawski  was Editor of four major handbooks: The Industrial Information Technology Handbook, CRC Press, Florida, 2004; The Industrial Communication Technology Handbook, CRC Press, Florida, 2005; The Embedded Systems Handbook, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2005; and Integration Technologies for Industrial Automated Systems, CRC Press/Taylor, 2006.  A monograph Networking Systems on Chip, Morgan Kaufman Series Systems on Silicon, San Francisco, is scheduled for publication in 2008; Networked Embedded Systems Handbook, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, will be published also in 2008. Dr Zurawski received an M.Eng, in Informatics & Automation, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow; obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Contact email address: r.zurawski@iestcfa.org