Scope

The WFCS workshop is the largest IEEE technical event specially dedicated to industrial communication systems. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to review current trends in this area and to present and discuss new ideas and new research directions.

Focus on

• Real-time and Dependability in Industrial Communication Systems: message scheduling; task allocation; fault-tolerant communication; performance analysis; safety and security issues; synchronization.
• System Integration in Industrial Automation Systems: vertical and life-cycle aspects, web-based setup, maintenance, and configuration; transparency vs. security; data-flow management; internetworking; hybrid wired/wireless industrial infrastructures.
• Information and Communication Technology in Automation: system design; component-based systems, web frameworks; mobile computing; modeling and specification techniques; formal methods.
• Recent advances in research domains with similar technical requirements: networked control systems; wireless sensor networks; building automation networks; automotive and train-control networks; distributed real-time embedded systems.

Workshop topics

• Fieldbus networks
• Industrial Ethernet networks
• IP-based networks
• Industrial wireless networks
• Networked embedded systems
• Sensor networks
• Building automation networks
• Automotive and train-control networks
• Factory and Process automation networks
• Real-time communication and applications
• Web-based communication and applications
• Distributed application platforms
• Safety and security in industrial communications
• Fault-tolerance in industrial communications
• Configuration tools and network management
• Internetworking and interoperability
• System aspects
• Case studies

Honorary chair

• Jean-Pierre Thomesse, INPL, Nancy, France

General co-chairs

• Zoubir Mammeri, Toulouse University, Toulouse, France
• Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA

Program Committee co-chairs

• Roman Obermaisser, Univ. of Siegen, Germany
• Eduardo Tovar, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

Work in progress co-chairs

• Marek Miskowicz, AGH Univ. of Science & Technology, Poland
• Jean-Luc Scharbarg, IRIT - University of Toulouse, France

Industry Day chair

• TBD

WFCS2014 Local Committee

• Armelle Bonenfant, IRIT, France
• Rahim Kacimi, IRIT, France
• Sabyne Lartigue, IRIT, France
• Cedric Teyssie, IRIT, France

WFCS2014 Program Committee

• Luis Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Moris Behnam, MRTC/Mlardalen University, Sweden
• Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Peter Buchholz, TU Dortmund, Germany
• Gianluca Cena, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Juan Colmenares, Samsung Information Systems America, USA
• Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
• Jean-Dominique Decotignie, Swiss Center for Microtechnology, Switzerland
• Dacfey Dzung, ABB Switzerland Corporate Research, Switzerland
• Wilfried Elmenreich, University of Klagenfurt, Germany
• Max Felser, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• Joaquim Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Luis Lino Ferreira, University of Porto, Portugal
• Alessandra Flammini, University of Brescia, Italy
• Jose Fonseca, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Piotr Gaj, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
• Laurent George, Universit Paris-Est, France
• Luiz Affonso Guedes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Hans Hansson, Malardalen University, Sweden
• Guy Juanole, University of Toulouse, France
• Joerg Kaiser, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitt Magdeburg, Germany
• Athanasios Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Institute, Greece
• Wolfgang Kastner, TU Vienna, Austria
• Anis Kouba, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
• Markus Kucera, University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany
• Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University, USA
• Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
• Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Ricardo Marau, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Nicolas Navet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Peter Palensky, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Paulo Pedreiras, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Stig Petersen, SINTEF, Norway
• Juan Pimentel, Kettering University, USA
• Julian Proenza, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Achim Rettberg CvO Univ. Oldenburg, Germany
• Frdric Ridouard, LIAS/ENSMA, France
• Thilo Sauter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
• Michael Short, Teesside University, UK
• Javier Silvestre-Blanes, Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Spain
• Franoise Simonot, LORIA, France
• Amund Skavhaug, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Ye-Qiong Song, LORIA - University of Lorraine, France
• Henning Trsek, Institute Industrial IT, Germany
• Adriano Valenzano, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Francisco Vasques, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Stefano Vitturi, IEIIT - National Research Council, Italy
• Takahiro Yakoh, Keio University, Japan
• Zhi Wang, Zhejiang University, China
• Martin Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden, Germany

WFCS Series Steering Committee

• J-D. Decotignie, CSEM, Switzerland
• D. Dietrich, Tech. Univ. of Vienna, Austria
• J. Fuertes, Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Spain
• J. Jasperneite, Institut Industrial IT, Germany
• G. Juanole, LAAS-CNRS, France
• C. Norstrom, Malardalen Univ., Sweden
• T. Sauter, Austrian Academy of Sc., Austria
• E. Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Porto, Portugal
• A. Valenzano, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
• F. Vasques, University of Porto, Portugal
• M. Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden, Germany
• F. Simonot-Lion, LORIA-INPL, Nancy, France
• R. Zurawski, ISA Group, USA (Chair)