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From: cam@fct.unl.pt (Luis Camarinha-Matos)
Subject: CfP Special issue on CIM Taxonomies
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         International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
              [Taylor & Francis, London  Washington DC]

                     Special Issue on CIM Taxonomies
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                              Call for Papers

CIM is clearly a multi-disciplinary area in which multiple views have to be
accommodated and certainly a too large a subject to be mastered by a single
person or research group.
Attempts to offer a general overview of the field, as in existing books or
overview papers, mostly present particular views of their authors or the
perspective of a particular "school", biased by their origins or scientific
background. This has meant that no common taxonomic decomposition of CIM
activities can be found.
During recent years many international projects, namely in the framework of the
European Community R & D programmes, have devoted considerable effort to
establishing internal taxonomies / common glossaries as a prerequisite for
cooperative work. The main goal of some of these projects has been the
establishment of common reference models for CIM.
Gathering the results of such efforts could be expected to contribute to a wider
understanding of the area. This special issue of the Journal  is an attempt to
organize, compare and make publicly available such taxonomies and basic
glossaries in order to facilitate a dialogue among experts from different fields
that necessarily have to cooperate to make CIM a reality.
Especially welcome are taxonomy proposals and basic glossaries on:
-General CIM engineering activities / General reference models
-Product design and modelling
-Manufacturing Systems design
-Production Planning and Control
-Process and execution planning
-Shop floor control and supervision.
The contents of typical papers should include: taxonomic structure, definition
of terms (basic), interrelationships between terms (other than taxonomic),
pointers to "reference" projects / works or brief summaries on state of the art,
identification of main support methodologies / scientific disciplines.
Contributions should be sent to:
Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos                    Deadlines:
Universidade Nova de Lisboa                      Abstracts: 30 May 93
Quinta da Torre - 2825 Monte Caparica             Papers: 30 Sep 93
Portugal
Tel +351-1-2953213                             Papers will be evaluated
Fax +351-1-2955641                             using the standard review
E-mail: cam@fct.unl.pt                         process of the Journal.


