CE2000, the 7th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, is a major forum for the international scientific exchange of research results in the development of novel methodologies, information technologies and business practices in achieving concurrency and integration in engineering.

Topics of Interest
Submission of original papers, position papers and reports on on-going work are invited in research and application of all areas of Concurrent Engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Networking and Distribution: Integrated frameworks, architectures for building CE systems, languages and tools for CE, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration, virtual team-support environments, tools for distributed product engineering, multi-media tools, tools for distance education, distributed computing architectures, CORBA, Java, OLE, Ontologies, KIF, KQML.
Collaboration Technologies: Computer-supported cooperative work, virtual teams, semi-autonomous workgroups, information sharing, workspace sharing, communication tools, computer-based video/audio conferencing, MBone, distributed consulting and training, workplace studies, synchronous and asynchronous communication, network-centric tool sharing, collaborative graphical user-interfaces, interoperability, networked collocation, human-computer interaction, software agents.
Organization and Management: Experiences, organisational principles of CE, distributed organisational development, emerging standards and practices, life-cycle engineering, design-for-X, concurrent specification, integrated product and process design, green/clean manufacturing, life-cycle costing, quality engineering, logistics support, CALS.
Enterprise Engineering: Enterprise architectures, enterprise modelling, enterprise integration, assessing organizational readiness, CE process characterization, workflow tracking and management, CE assessment models, planning and scheduling, business process re-engineering, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises.
Collaborative Decision-Making: Decision processes in cooperative work, goal synthesis, team coordination, decision support systems, multi-criteria decision making, design assessment, monitoring of product development, change notification across perspectives, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure, project and team coordination.
Reasoning and Negotiation: Conflict resolution, goal negotiation, constraint modelling, constraint management, blackboard and agent-based architectures, corporate technical memory, mediator agents.
Information Modelling: Product and process modelling, information modelling and simulation, integrated process capture, design intent capture, product version control, product data management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledge-based systems.
Design Technologies: Cooperative Design, geometric modeling, feature-based modelling, design and manufacturing integration, design for Manufacturing, geometric reasoning, design integration tools, computer aided design / manufacturing, constraint-based design.
Practical Applications: Experience reports, practical solutions, demonstrators, systematic guidelines, pitfalls and success stories, case studies, lessons learned, CE issues for large versus small/medium enterprises, applications in defence sector.

Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceedings will be published in a series entitled Advances in Concurrent Engineering. The Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications (CERA) journal has sponsored the Best Paper Award, to be judged by the CE2000 Conference Awards Committee. Selected expanded papers will be reviewed for inclusion in a special issue of the CERA journal.

Timetable

Submission Procedure

Abstracts should be submitted in the electronic or paper form to the Conference Chair Dr. Parisa Ghodous (ghodous@ligim.univ-lyon1.fr). Full papers should be submitted in the electronic or paper form to the Programme Chair (maximum 10 pages single-spaced in point size 10) Electronic versions should be sent in a Postscript file via email in a Postscript file. Full Author Instructions are available at the CE2000 conference website.