Subcommittee on Industrial and
Factory Communication Systems
Chairs:
Thilo Sauter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria and
Eduardo Tovar, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Scope: Real-time Communication and Applications; Formal
Description Techniques; Multimedia Communication Support; Distributed
application platforms; Internetworking, Interoperability;
Configuration Tools and Network Management; Fieldbus Networks;
Industrial Ethernet, Cell Networks; High Speed Networks; Intranet and
Internet Access; Factory Applications and Case Studies.
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Thilo Sauter
Dr. Thilo Sauter
is the Head of the Research Unit for Integrated Sensor Systems with
the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
He was a research assistant at the
Institute of General Electrical Engineering (1992 to 1996), working in
the area of programmable logic and analog ASIC design. Since 1996, he
has been with the Institute of Computer Technology, where he was head
of the center of excellence for fieldbus systems and leading the
factory communications group.
He is member of the Austrian technical committee ÖVE MR65SC and
delegate to the CENELEC committee TC65SC, both concerned with fieldbus
standardization.
His current research interests are integrated sensor systems and
communication networks in automation, with a focus on interconnection
issues of fieldbus systems and IP-based networks, as well as
industrial Ethernet.
Dr. Sauter received his Dipl.-Ing. and Doctorate degrees in electrical
engineering from the Vienna University of Technology in 1992 and 1999,
respectively.
Contact email address: t.sauter@iestcfa.org
Eduardo Tovar
Dr. Eduardo Tovar is a Professor in Computer Engineering
at the Industrial Informatics Division at the Polytechnic Institute of
Porto, Portugal. He heads the CISTER Research Centre, a top ranked
Portuguese R&D unit.
His current research interests include factory automation and factory
communication technologies, distributed real-time systems and
scheduling theory. He has published over 50 papers in journals and
refereed conferences and workshops.
He was general co-chair of the WFCS 2000 and the Euromicro ECRTS 2003,
and program chair for Euromicro ECRTS 2005.
Dr Tovar received Licenciate, MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, in 1990, 1995 and
1999, respectively.
Contact email address:
E.Tovar@iestcfa.org
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