CCCA'12

Special Session on:
Intelligent Products in Manufacturing & Services Systems

Proposed by:
Fouzia Ounnar (Aix Marseille University-LSIS-France): fouzia.ounnar@lsis.org
Kary Främling (Helsinki University of Technology– Aalto- Finland): Kary.Framling@aalto.fi
Damien Trentesaux (Valenciennes University-TEMPO-France):damien.trentesaux@univvalenciennes.fr

This session is proposed under the auspices of the French GDR MACS research group on Intelligent Manufacturing and Services Systems IMS².

Short presentation:
The concept of intelligent products is becoming more and more developed in manufacturing and services systems. This concept aims to make products able to participate to the decision processes that concern their own life, from the beginning (design, manufacturing) to the end (recycling) by actively interacting with other intelligent products, human operators and information systems.
A common issue for all the contributions in developing intelligent product based system concern the design of systems composed of intelligent entities able to cooperate and to respond to changes in the environment by adapting their behaviour. As a consequence, a global behaviour emerges from the interaction of these entities.
Intelligent product is defined and modelled in different ways (multi-agent systems, holonic systems, service-oriented architectures...), in various fields (production, maintenance, supply chain...) and using different emerging technologies (RFID, WSN ....).
This special session aims to highlight the works of researchers and industrialists in this cutting edge field by focusing on the following topics (not limited to):
· Architecturing and modelling intelligent products
· Intelligent Product-driven control
· Self-organization and emerging behaviours using intelligent products
· Design, optimization and simulation of intelligent product-based systems
· Information and data management using intelligent products
· Management of the Intelligent Product life cycle
Application fields concern production, maintenance, supply chain, health care systems, transportation, logistics, urban traffic, buildings, etc.

Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of papers: September 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2012
Submission of final paper: November 7, 2012
Deadline for author registration: November 7, 2012

For submission, please refer to http://www.hypersciences.org/ccca12