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Major Technical Events The IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation; ETFA The ETFA conference series is a prime, and the largest, IEEE event dedicated to factory automation and emerging technologies in industrial automation. Since 1992, the ETFA conference have been hosted by some of the leading academic and research establishments including University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), INRIA (Paris, France), University of Hawaii (Hawaii), University of California at Los Angeles, Polytechnic University of Catalunia (Barcelona, Spain) and Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (Nice, France), UNINOVA-CRI and Universidade Nova de Lisboa-FCT-DEE Lisbon, Portugal), University of Catania (Catania, Italy) in 2005, Czech Technical University in Prague in 2006, and University of Patras, Greece, in 2007. The aim of the ETFA
conference series is to provide researchers and practitioners from
industry and academia with a platform to report on recent developments
in the newly emerging areas of technology and their potential
applications to factory automation. ETFA conferences were fortunate to
attract high quality papers. Many of these were later published in the
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and from 2005 in the IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Informatics. The IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems; WFCS The WFCS workshop is an 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. Previous workshops were hosted by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1995; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1997; Politechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal, in 2000; Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, in 2002; Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2004; and Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2006. The next issue of the workshop will be held in May 2008 in Dresden, Germany.WFCS 2004 WFCS 2006 - web site WFCS 2006 Report & Photos WFCS 2008 - web site WFCS 2008 Report & Photos WFCS 2010 (Nancy, France) The IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems; SIES Application domains have had a considerable impact on the evolution of embedded systems, in terms of required methodologies and supporting tools and resulting technologies. SoCs are slowly making inroads in to the area of industrial automation to implement complex field-area intelligent devices which integrate the intelligent sensor/actuator functionality by providing on-chip signal conversion, data processing, and communication functions. There is a growing tendency to network field-area intelligent devices around industrial type of communication networks. Similar trends appear in the automotive electronic systems where the Electronic Control Units (ECUs), typically implemented as heterogeneous system-on-chip, are networked by means of one of safety-critical communication protocols such as FlexRay, for instance, for the purpose of controlling one of vehicle functions; electronic engine control, ABS, active suspension, etc. The design of this kind of networked embedded systems (this includes also hard real-time industrial control systems) is a challenge in itself due to the distributed nature of processing elements, sharing common communication medium, and safety-critical requirements, to mention some. The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent developments, deployments, technology trends and research results, as well as initiatives related to embedded systems and their applications in a variety of industrial environments. SIES 2006 SIES 2007 SIES 2008 SIES 2009 (Lausanne, Switzerland) SIES 2010 (Trento, Italy)
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