case 2012

1. Foundations of Automation

Chairs: Kunihiko Hiraishi (Japan Advanced Institute of Sci & Tech, Japan), Knut Akesson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Discrete event systems, Hybrid systems, Fault analysis and recovery, System modelling and simulation, Monitoring and control

2. Life Sciences and Health Care

Chairs: Bahareh Behkam (Virginia Tech., USA), Doo Yong Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Sci & Tech, Korea), Amrinder Nain (Virginia Tech, USA)

Lab automation, Automation in treatment diagnosis and disease, Hospital and medical robotics, Healthcare management systems

3. Automation in Meso, Micro, and Nano-scale

Chairs: Fumihito Arai (Nagoya University, Japan), Akihiko Ichikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)

MEMS, NEMS, Micro/Nano fluidics, Micro/Nano assembly, Meso/Micro/Nano robotics, Bio robotics, Lab on a chip, Fab modeling and analysis, Metrology, Micro/Nano manufacturing and automation

4. Information Automation

Chairs: Birgit Vogel-Heuser (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (University of Genoa, Italy), Fan-Tien Cheng (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Models and architectures in information automation, Web services and service oriented architectures, cloud computing, model driven engineering, software engineering, Automatic code synthesis in automation, Workflow management systems, knowledge discovery and its applications, Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Automation, Web data and text mining, Machine learning.

5. Manufacturing Automation

Chairs: Bengt Lennartson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Satyandra K. Gupta (University of Maryland, USA)

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems, automated process planning, production planning and scheduling, sustainable manufacturing, automated inspection and quality control, automated manufacturability analysis, automated material handling, and industrial robotics.

6. Automation in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Chairs: Tatsushi Nishi (Osaka University, Japan), Loo Hay Lee (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Chun-Hung Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Material handling and assembly, IT-enabled planning, coordination and scheduling, Resource allocation and management, Automation in remanufacturing and reverse logistics

7. Networked and Control Systems

Chairs: Dezhen Song (Texas A&M University, USA), Volkan Isler (University of Minnesota, USA), Qianchuan Zhao (Tsinghua University, China)

Distributed control systems, Multiagent planning and control, Sensor/actuator networks, Wireless communication and control

8. Automation Applications

Chairs: Changsoo Han (Hanyang University, Korea), Stephan Biller (GM R&D Center, USA), Xiaodong Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

Construction automation, Aerospace automation, Agricultural automation, Automotive automation, Home/building automation, Disaster management, Green automation, Intelligent transportation, Maritime system automation, Ambient intelligence