Workshop Description

Combining the emerged advanced technologies (such as cloud computing, internet of thing, virtualization and service-oriented technologies, advanced computing technologies) and existing advanced manufacturing models and enterprise informationization technologies, a new manufacturing paradigm, cloud manufacturing (CMfg), is proposed and paid full attention by both industrial and academic communities. The track is devoted to exchange ideas about theories, methodologies, and technologies of cloud manufacturing, encouraging international collaborative research and demonstrations of current research in all areas of cloud manufacturing and its applications.

The track deals with topics concerning Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg). Topics of interest are as follows:

· Architecture, models, standards and criteria for CMfg
· Intelligent perception, connection technologies and equipments for various physical manufacturing resource and ability, including hardware and software resource
· Knowledge-based resource virtualization and virtual resource management technologies
· Cloud service encapsulation technologies of manufacturing resource and ability, including cloud service modelling, description, deployment, and so forth
· Cloud service comprehensive management technologies, such as aggregation and classification, cost management, QoS (quality of service) management, integrated evaluation, composition, trust and reliability management, scheduling and optimal-allocation of cloud service
· CMfg task management, such as task definition, description, decomposition, evaluation, and scheduling
· Manufacturing ability and cloud service transaction process management
· CMfg user business management and ubiquitous interface development
· CMfg service platform development and management
· CMfg safety and security
· Cloud simulation
· Cloud scheduling
· High performance simulation

Nevertheless different topics concerning Cloud Manufacturing n are welcome.

Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Modelling Techniques of Industrial Engineering
· Industrial Applications of Modelling and Simulation
· Industrial Engineering for Food Science
· Industrial Computing
· Audio and Video Technologies
· Control Engineering
· Case Studies in Industry and Service
· System and Service Modelling and Simulation
· Engineering Economy and Cost Estimation
· Industrial Engineering Education
· Information Systems
· Manufacturing, Control and Automation
· Performance Analysis
· Quality Management
· Business and Strategy
· Product and Process Design and Management
· Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
· Scheduling in Industry and Service
Nevertheless different topic concerning Industrial Engineering are welcome.



Key Dates

Submissions of Extended Abstracts:April 12, 2012
Notification of acceptance:May 12, 2012
Final Camera-Ready Submission:June 12, 2012
Early Registration: July 1, 2012

FIRST SUBMISSION
Extended abstracts (minimum 2 pages), full draft papers or other proposals should be submitted for the review process through the submission section by April 12, 2012
The extended abstract or the full draft paper must contain title, authors, affiliations, addresses, main body and references.
Each extended abstract or full draft paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee taking into consideration scientific quality, originality and relevance. Only original papers, written in English will be accepted.
The extended abstract or the full draft paper should be prepared by following the final paper formatting. However any type of paper formatting can be accepted for the first submission.

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 12, 2012.

CAMERA READY PAPER SUBMISSION
The International Program Committee will accept two types of camera ready papers: extended paper (10 pages, 2 columns); regular paper (6 pages, 2 columns) both for regular and special sessions.
The camera ready paper must adhere to the conference template. The .dot file contains the complete instructions for preparing a camera ready copy for the Proceedings. The final version of the paper must be a PDF file.
Your camera ready paper (extended paper or regular paper) in PDF format must be submitted by using the submission section before the June 12, 2012
The page limit for manuscripts is ten (10) pages (included in the author registration fee). Additional pages will require an additional fee.
If your work must be cleared or approved before publication by your institution, company, or governmental agency, please be sure that process will be completed by the due date above or we will not be able to include it in the CD Conference Proceedings.

CONTACT INFORMATION
For further information please contact Fei Tao (ftao@buaa.edu.cn),Lin Zhang (johnlin9999@126.com), Enrico Bocca (enrico.bocca@simulationteam.com) or emss@msc-les.org