NEWS AND UPDATES
July 3, 2009: Four Finalists announced for the award Paper Session:
- Closed Loop Determinism for Non-Deterministic Environments: Verification for IEC 61499 Logic Controllers
Authors: Allen, Lindsay V.; Goh, Kiah Mok; and Tilbury, Dawn
- Workflow Completion patterns
Authors: Trcka, Nikola; Aalst, Vander Wil; Sidorova, Natalia
- Monotonic and Non-Monotonic Properties of Product Quality in Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Batch Operations
Wang Junwen; Li, Jingshan; Arinez, Jorge; Biller, Stephan; Huang, Ningjian
- Multi-Strategy Supplier Selection for Commodity Sourcing
Authors: Dayama Pankaj; Jidugu, Balaji
- June 30, 2009: The Deadline for early-Bird registration is extended until July 31, 2009.
- May 15, 2009 : There is a slight delay in emailing the author notifications. All notifications will be emailed latest by May 20, 2009. Registration through PaperPlaza and uploading of final versions of accepted papers through paperPlaza will be enabled from May 20, 2009.
- May 1, 2009: The program on August 22, 2009 will include the following 4 tutorials and 4 workshops.
TUTORIALS
- Sensor Networks for Automation Applications by Rajeev Shorey, General Motors India Science Lab, Bangalore, India
August 22, 2009; 09.00 - 12.15 Hours
- Modern Data Mining Techniques for Automation by Shirish Shevade (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) and Balaraman Ravindran (Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India)
August 22, 2009; 09.00 - 12.15 Hours
- Foundations and Applications of Mechanism Design by Y. Narahari (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) and Dinesh Garg (yahoo! Labs, Bangalore, India)
August 22, 2009; 09.00 - 12.15 Hours
- Cyber-Physical Systems by P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
August 22, 2009; 16.30 - 19.30 Hours
WORKSHOPS
- Sense Making with Smart Phones (Gaurav Sukhatme, M. Srivastava, and V. Padmanabhan)
August 22, 2009; 13.00 - 16.15 Hours
- Service Science and Automation (N. Viswanadham (ISB, Hyderabad), S. Kameshwaran (ISB, Hyderabad), Mehta (IBM India Research Lab), V. Pandit (IBM India Research Lab))
August 22, 2009; 13.00 - 16.15 Hours
- Knowledge Automation Applications in Service Centers (Ram Akella, University of California, Santacruz)
August 22, 2009; 09.00 - 12.15 Hours
- Product Life Cycle Management and Design Automation (M. Y. Wang, Hongkong)
August 22, 2009; 13.00 - 16.15 Hours
- February 3, 2009 : Deadline for Submissions Extended due to many requests. The new deadlines are as follows.
February 15, 2009 : Submission of Proposals for Special Sessions
March 1, 2009 : Submission of Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops
March 1, 2009 : Submission of contributed papers
March 15, 2009 : Submission of Papers/Extended Abstracts for Accepted Special Sessions
- January 26, 2009 : Professor Karl Böhringer, University of Washington, Seattle, accepts to be a Plenary Speaker at the Conference.
- January 22, 2009 : Professor Peter Luh, University of Connecticut, Storrs, accepts to be a Plenary Speaker at the Conference
- January 19, 2009 : A guided Tour of the Infosys Campus is arranged for August 25, 2009 (Tuesday) - 13.00 to 17.00 Hours.
- January 11, 2009: A guided tour of the Bangalore City and a conducted tour of the magnificent Mysore City is arranged on August 22, 2009.
- January 10, 2009: Mr. S. (Kris) Gopalakrishnan, CEO and MD of India's leading IT enterprise, Infosys Technologies, has accepted to be a plenary speaker.
- January 1, 2009: Hotel Grand Ashok is chosen as the venue of the conference for all the events on August 23,24,25, 2009 (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday).
- December 2008: The The Indian Institute of Science is chosen as the venue for all the events on August 22, 2009 (Saturday).



















