Subcommittee on Automated Manufacturing and Control Systems Chairs: Alexander Fay, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany Javier Campos, University of zaragoza, Spain   Scope: Design methodologies and tools for the modeling and verification of manufacturing and process systems. Programmable logic control, process control, intelligent control, supervisory control. Synthesis and analysis techniques. Simulation, queueing systems, Petri nets. Performance Evaluation and reliability. Scheduling. Failure detection, diagnosis, and appropriate control strategies. Discrete, continuous and hybrid industrial automation systems. Integration of automation, control and supervision. Automated manufacturing systems and enterprise integration. Recent developments in standardization. Test cases, benchmarks, and tools. Concurrent and more efficient engineering.   Javier Campos received the degree in applied mathematics and the Ph.D. degree (with Doctoral Award) in systems engineering and computer science from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. In 1986 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Zaragoza, where he was named Associate Professor in 1992. In 2004 he won the first Spanish national habilitation for full Professor in Languages and Computing Systems, and he is full professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, since 2006. Dr. Campos was the Director of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering of the University of Zaragoza from 2001 to 2003. His research interests include modelling and performance evaluation of distributed and concurrent systems, Petri nets, and software performance engineering. Since 1989 he co-authored about 80 papers published in refereed journals and conferences. He gave tutorials in the 1997 and 1999 editions of the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models. He has recently given an invited talk on software performance engineering using UML and Petri nets at the 6th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD) and the 26th International Conference On Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ICATPN), colocated in 2006 in Turku, Finland. Dr. Campos is a Founding Member of the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research.

Contact email address: j.campos@iestcfa.org   Alexander Fay (M'02-SM'07) is a Full Professor for Automation Technology in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to that, 1999-2003, he was with ABB Corporate Research in the research labs at Heidelberg and Ladenburg, Germany. His research interests include engineering of control systems (large scale, for industrial plants in process and manufacturing industry, also building control systems and train system control), engineering workflow, engineering processes and methodologies, engineering tools and their interfaces, function-block oriented control engineering, engineering of field devices, techniques to formally describe control functions and control systems such as Petri nets and FSM, techniques to describe systems from different perspectives (prefered means is CAEX according to IEC 62424), knowledge-based systems, agents, and the use of robots for applications in medicine, esp. surgery. In 1999, he received the DB Research Award. In 2002, he has been appointed to the „World’s 100 Top Young Innovators“ of the M.I.T, Cambridge, Ma. He has published more than 90 journal and conference papers. He has served as a program committee member and special session chair for several conferences. He is General Co-Chair of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation which will be held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2008. Alexander Fay received the Diplom degree with honors (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering and the PhD with honors (summa cum laude) in Engineering Science (Dr.-Ing.) from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1995 and 1999, respectively. Contact email address: a.fay@iestcfa.org