IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics INDIN’15 22-24 July 2015, Cambridge, UK Special Session on “Open, Knowledge-Driven Manufacturing Execution Systems” organized by Principal Organizer: Andrei Lobov ([email protected]) Affiliation: Tampere University of Technology Organizer 1 : Marco Garetti ([email protected]) Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano Organizer 2 : Pavel Balda ([email protected]) Affiliation: University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Call for Papers Theme: The development of Internet-related technologies has affected all the levels of automation pyramid. In addition to enhancing the connectivity, new web standards were proposed by different standardization bodies (e.g. W3C, OASIS) defining new approaches to the modeling and processing of information. Their application for manufacturing domain requires improvements at all the levels from factory floor to Enterprise Resource Planning. Open, Knowledge-Driven Manufacturing Execution Systems are seen as a core to allow adaptation of web standards for manufacturing. It must join together enhanced information representation and processing capabilities with performance requirements of controlled manufacturing systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  Knowledge-driven runtime re-configurability of manufacturing systems; 1 A good quality paper may be considered for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (I.F.=8.785) subjects to further reviews  MES functions and their realization using knowledge-driven approaches;  Knowledge modelling at all levels of automation pyramid;  Domain ontologies for manufacturing systems representation;  Joining deterministic controller behaviour (e.g. PLCs) and knowledge processing;  Distributed reasoning allowing the use of computational resources at embedded controllers;  Application of Service-oriented Architectures for Manufacturing Execution Systems;  Semantic web services for manufacturing systems integration. Submission procedure, deadlines, and author instructions: A manuscript submitted to the Special Session of INDIN 2015 must be in the IEEE double format with single space 10p fonts and figures included in the text, so the length of the manuscript of 8 pages long in PDF format can be evaluated. For your convenience you may download the WORD template.doc from the conference website: http://www.INDIN2015.org Deadlines:  Reception of full paper:  Paper acceptance notification:  Camera ready paper reception: 2 February 1, 2015 April 10,2015 May 17, 2015 A good quality paper may be considered for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (I.F.=8.785) subjects to further reviews