SOCIETY FOR DESIGN AND PROCESS SCIENCE CHINESE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SOCIETY ADVANCE PROGRAM THE EIGHTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED DESIGN & PROCESS & TECHNOLOGY Theme of the conference: The Future of Software Engineering in the networked world FRAGRANT HILL HOTEL- BEIJING - CHINA A CITY WITH MAGIC & HERITAGE June 13-17, 2005 Theme of the conference: The Future of Software Engineering in the networked world SPONSORED BY Society for Design & Process Science (SDPS) Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES) Software Engineering Society (SES) George Kozmetsky Endowment (GKE) and The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies (TheATLAS) CO-SPONSORED CO-SPONSORED BY BY National Natural Science Foundation of China Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC) Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC) China Computer Federation (CCF) IDEATE Institute, Texas Tech University IC2 Institute, The University of Texas THE EIGHTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON INTEGRA TED DESIGN INTEGRATED & PROCESS TECHNOLOGY June 13-17, 2005 FRAGRANT HILL HOTEL BEIJING - CHINA CONFERENCE THEME You are invited to participate in the Eighth International Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT) to be held June 13-17, 2005 in Beijing China. The IDPT Conference is a major international forum for the integration of design and process technologies to create a symbiotic relationship among scientists, engineers, software developers, decision makers, and other critical thinkers. CONFERENCE PAPERS The conference program will consist of invited and selected papers emphasizing knowledge integration through the study of processes leading to the delivery of a more robust, high–quality line of products, software and services. Plenary sessions and keynote addresses will be presented by prominent speakers. All technical papers will be reviewed by the Program Technical Committee and by three independent peer referees. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, competitively selected papers will be reviewed for publication in the SDPS Transactions: Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science. The main topics of the year 2005 IDPT Conference are: Safety critical systems; Component technologies; Software Agent technologies; Distributed intelligent systems; Distributed sensor systems and network, Telework and enterprise engineering; Mobile computing, Software Architectures; Telecommunications; Healthcare Engineering; Electronic Commerce and Web Technology; Computer and Software Engineering; Design and Process Engineering and Science; Integrated Design and Manufacturing; General Design, Business Process Re-engineering and Science; Process Management and Improvement, Information Systems Engineering; Data Warehouse Technology; Technology Transfer; and High Pressure Technology and Science. IMPORTANT DEADLINE Abstract submissions due Full paper submissions due Final acceptance Final manuscript due October 15, 2004 February 11, 2005 Febryary 28, 2005 March 11, 2005 The abstract (200 words) may be submitted by post, fax or e-mail. All abstracts submitted by e-mail should be sent as PDF attachments. All accepted papers should be prepared in PDF file and e-mailed as attachments to session organizers. The abstracts should include: Title, Author’s Full Name/Names, Affiliations and Addresses*, E- mail Address, Fax, and Telephone. *(Papers with incomplete addresses will not be considered) Please submit the papers to: Dr. Ben Hua (cehuaben@scut.edu.cn) Dr. David Gibson (davidg@icc.utexas.edu) Dr. Stephen Ekwaro-Osire (ekwaro@coe.ttu.edu) Dr. Hong C. Zhang (hzhang@coe.ttu.edu) Dr. K.H. (Kane) Kim (khkim@uci.edu) Dr, Derrick Tate (dtate@alum.mit.edu) Dr. Asuman Suenbuel (asu@kestrel.edu) Dr.Matthias Anlauff (ma@kestrel.edu) Dr. Ibrahim Esat (Ibrahim.Esat@brunel.ac.uk) Dr. Yong Zeng (zeng@ciise.concordia.ca) Or submit your paper to any other Program Committee members that you know. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Honorary Conference Chairmen Yongxiang Lu President, CMES and Chinese Academy of Sciences Raymond T. Yeh Chairman Zerotime Foundation Austin, TX Steering Committee Chairmen C.V. Ramamoorthy Univ. of California Berkeley California, Berkeley Yingluo Wang Xi’an Jiaotong University China A. Ertas Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas Conference Chairmen Ben Hua South China University of Technology, China K. H. (Kane) Kim University ofCalifornia Irvine, California Program Chairmen Stephen Ekwaro-Osire Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas Yousen Huang Beijing Res. Inst. of Auto. for Machine Building Industry China Derrick Tate Leadership Development International Evergreen,CO Program Vice-Chairmen D. Gibson IC2 Institute University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Hong C. Zhang Peifan Ding Texas Tech University Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society Lubbock, Texas PROGRAM COMMITTEE M. Aiello, University of Trento,Italy M. Anlauff, Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto R. Bharadwaj, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Wen-Tsuen Chen, Tsinghua Univ., Taiwan, China H. Chen, East China Institute of Computing Technology M. C. Chyu, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA Jian Chu, Zhejiang University, China Jian Chen,Tsinghua University, China Guozhong Dai, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences A. Dogru, METU, Turkey A. E. Engin, University of South Alabama, Mobil, AL, USA I. I. Esat, Brunel University, Middlesex, UK Pei’en Feng, Zhejiang University, China W-J. van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Yanbo Han, Ins. of Computing Technology, Chinese Acad.of Sciences T. Hirota, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan K. Itoh, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Feiyu Kang, Tsinghua University, China T. Kikuno, Osaka Univ., Japan Moon-Hae Kim, Konkuk Univ., Korea B. Kraemer, FernUniversitaet, Hagen, Germany V. Kirova; Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs, USA S. Kumagai, Yamatake Corporation, Japan Boxiong Lan, Tsinghua University, China M. Lyu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China K.Mori,Tokyo Institute of Tech., Japan A. M. Madni, Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., CA T. Margaria, University of Göttingen, Germany T.T. Maxwell, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA J. Padberg, Technical University Berlin, Germany I. Poernomo, Monash Univ, Melbourne, Australia R. Reussner, Monash Univ, Melbourne, Australia M. Riebisch, TU-Ilmenau, Germany W. Rossak; FSU Jena, Germany Kee-Wook Rim, ETRI, Korea M. Ronchetti, University of Trento,Italy A. Suenbuel, Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto Linyan Sun, Xi’an Jiaotong university China M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan M.M. Tanik, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA T. H. Tse, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Chengen Wang, Northeast University, China Tianran Wang, Shenyang Institute of Automation, China R. Wang, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society S. Watanabe, Sojo University, Japan C. Wu, Tsinghua University, China Y. Yang, Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China Naiyan Yu, Chemical Industry and Eng. Society of China Remzi Seker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Z. Shi, General secretary of China Computer Federation Ma, Yanzhang, Texas Tech University B.Zhou, Software Inst., Beijing Areonautical & Astron. Univ., China Suojiang Zhang, Inst. of Process Eng., Chinese Acad. of Sciences CONFERENCE REGISTRA TION REGISTRATION FEES AND POLICIES $400 For SDPS Members who register before April 30, 2005 $450 For SDPS Members who register after April 30, 2005 $450 For Non-Members who register before April 30, 2005 $500 For Non-Members who register after April 30, 2005 Note that, participants may request one year free membership of SDPS and SES to be qualified for reduced fee. Registration Fee includes: IDPT Welcome Reception --- IDPT Conference Dinner on Monday--- Conference Luncheon on Tuesday --Continental Breakfast --- Coffee Breaks --- A volume of the conference proceedings and two days of tours: Great Wall and Ming Dynasty 13 Tombes ;Palace Museim and Summer Palace . 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