TC5 - Computer Applications in Technology

TC5 - Information Technology Applications

est. 1970, revised 2004 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://gandalf.crle.uoguelph.ca/IFIP_TC5/

Chair
Prof. Dr. Erich J. NEUHOLD, AT

University of Vienna

Fakultät für Informatik

Liebiggasse 4

AT-1010 VIENNA, Austria

Tel. +43 1 403 2528

Fax +43 1 403 2528

e-mail: erich.neuhold@univie.ac.at

Vice-Chair
Dr. György L. KOVACS, HU
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
CIM Research Laboratory
Comp. and Autom. Research Institute
Kende u. 13-17
HU-1111 BUDAPEST

Hungary
Tel. +36 1 209 6143
Fax +36 1 466 7503
e-mail: gyorgy.kovacs@sztaki.hu

Secretary

Dr. Philippe DALLEMAGNE, CH

CSEM Centre Suisse d’electronique et de microtechnique

CSEM SA

Jaquet-Droz 1

Case Postate

CH-2002 NEUCHATEL,

Switzerland

Tel. +41 32 720 5521

Fax +41 32 720 5720

e-mail: philippe.dallemagne@csem.ch

Publications & Events Officer

Prof. Gaetano CASCINI, IT
Politecnico di Milano

Dept. of Mechanics

Via Giuseppe La Masa, 34

IT-20156 MILANO
Italy
Tel. +39 02 2399 8463
Fax +39 02 2399 8282

e-mail: gaetano.cascini@polimi.it

Financial Officer
Prof. Dr. Michael B. McGRATH, US/ACM
Colorado School of Mines
Engineering Department
2000 Little Raven St. 403
DENVER, CO 80202
USA
Tel. +1 303 383 5016
Fax +1 303 273 3602
e-mail: mmcgrath@mines.edu

Communications Officer
Mr. Ronald WAXMANN, US-IEEE

EDA Standards Consulting

Retired Principal Scientist at Uva

24975 Hilltop Drive

BEACHWOOD, OH 44122-1351

USA

Tel. +1 216 297 9378

Fax +1 216 297 9378

e-mail: r.waxmann@computer.org

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Gabriela P. Henning
Jörg Mühlbacher
Dimitar Velev
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Renchu Gan
Yu Tao*
Ralf Denzer*
Detlef Kochan*
Peter Falster
Gabriel Oliver Codina

FR
GB
GB

IL
IN
JP
KR

MX
NL

Riitta Smeds

Guy Doumeingts*
Umit Bititci*
Rae A. Earnshaw

Gideon Halevi*
Rattan K. Datta
Fumihiko Kimura
Byoung-Kyu Choi
Noel Leon Rovira*

Hamideh Afsarmanesh

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SE
US

US
US

Kesheng Wang
Tadeusz Czachorski
Luis Manuel Camarinha-Matos
Ivica Mlađenović
Torsten Kjellberg
Mansour Ashtiani

Gustav Olling (Senior Advisor)
Jakob Vlietstra***

Michael Wozny*

ex-officio members: WG Chairs
*) Individual Member
**) Observer
***) Honorary Member

WG 5.1 Global Product Development for the whole life-cycle

est. 2006, revised 2009 Aims and Scopes

URL: http://www.ifip-wg51.org

Co-Chairs

Prof. Alain BERNARD

Ecole Centrale de Nantes

1, rue de la Noë

BP 92101

FR-44321 NANTES Cedex 3

France

Tel. +33 2 40 37 69 66

Fax +33 2 40 37 69 30

e-mail: alain.bernard@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr

Prof. Chris McMAHON

Unversity of Bath

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Claverton Down

BATH BA2 7AY

United Kingdom

Tel. +44 1225 384026

Fax +44 1225 386928

e-mail: enscam@bath.ac.uk

Vice-Chairs
for Europe and Africa:

Prof. Abdelaziz BOURAS

Université Lumiere

Lyon 2 - IUT Lumiere

160, Bd de l’Université

FR-69676 BRON, Cedex

France

Tel. +33 4 7877 3146

Fax +33 4 7800 6328

e-mail: abdelaziz.bouras@univ-lyon2-fr

for America:

Prof. Debasish DUTTA

University of Illinois

226 Mechanical Engineering Building
1206 West Green Street
URBANA, IL 61801

USA

Tel. +1 217 333 6715

e-mail: ddutta@illinois.edu

for Asia and Pacific:

Dr. Balan GURUMOORTHY

Indian Institute of Science

Department of Mechanical Engineering

BANGALORE 560 012

India

Tel. +91 80 2293 2304

Fax +91 80 2360 1975

e-mail: bgm@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in

Secretary

Dr. Henk Jan PELS

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Dept.of Technology Management

Section Information & Technology

P.O. Box 513 Paviljoen

NL-5600 MB EINDHOVEN

The Netherlands

Tel. +31 40 2473948

Fax +31 40 243 2612

e-mail: h.j.pels@tm.tue.nl

Louis Rivest

Dimitris Kiritzis

Henry Ming

Klaus-Dieter Thoben

Sandor Vajna

Ameziane Aoussat

Benoit Eynard

Frederic Noel

Lionel Roucoules

Steve Culley

Ip-Shing Fan

Duncan McFarlane

Alison McKay

Michael Pratt

Robert Young

Nicolaos Bilalis

Nicolás Sapadis

George Huang

Umberto Cugini

Marco Garetti

Sergio Terzi

Satyandra Gupta

Willem Bronsvoort

Alexander Smirnov

Johan Malmqvist

Chris Paredis

Rachuri Sudarsan
Ram Sriram

Eswaran Subrahmanian

(The membership list is still evolving)

WG 5.4 Computer Aided Innovation

est. 2005 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.computeraidedinnovation.net/

Chair
Prof. Gaetano CASCINI
Politecnico di Milano

Dept. of Mechanics

Via Giuseppe La Masa, 34

IT-20156 MILANO
Italy
Tel. +39 02 2399 8463
Fax +39 02 2399 8282

e-mail: gaetano.cascini@polimi.it

Vice-Chair (Asia)
Prof. Dr. Tan RUNHUA
Hebei University of Technology Institute of Design for Innovation

TIANJIN 300130
China
Tel. +86 22 2656 4037
e-mail: rhtan@hebut.edu.cn

Vice-Chair (USA)
Dr. Su Kyeong CHO
DaimlerChrysler Corp.
CAx Research & Technology
800 Chrysler Drive
AUBURN HILLS

MI 48326-2757
USA
Tel. +1 248 576 9721
Fax +1 248 576 2880
e-mail: sc211@daimlerchrysler.com

Publication Officer
Ass. Prof. Denis CAVALLUCCI

INSA Graduate School of Science and Technology

Design Engineering Laboratory

24, Boulevard de la Victoire
FR-67084 STRASBOURG

France

Tel. +33 3 88 14 4755
Fax +33 3 88 14 4799
e-mail: denis.cavallucci@insa-strasbourg.fr

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Mary Lou Maher
Marco Aurelio de Carvalho

Nikolai Khomenko
Liu Hong

Albert Albers
Carsten Gundlach
Andreas Jost
Hansjϋrgen Linde
Pavel Livotov
Michael Orloff

Jivka Ovtcharova

Eckhard Schüler-Hainsch

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SE

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US

Joaquìm Lloveras Macià

Rosario Vidal
Roland De Guio

Darrell Mann

Seung-Hyun Yoo
Alberto Hernández

Noel Leon-Rovira
Valeri Souchkov
Tobias C. Larsson

Tomasz Arciszewski
Mansour Ashtiani

Ellen Domb

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US

US
US
US

US
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Susan Finger

John Gero

Sergei Ikovenko
Peter Koen

Don Masingale
Gopalan Mukundan

Madara Ogot

Gustav J. Olling
Michael Slocum
John Terninko
Boris Zlotin
Alla Zusman

WG 5.5 Co-operation Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises and Electronic Business - "COVE"

est. 2001 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.uninova.pt/~cove

Chair
Prof. Hamideh AFSARMANESH

University of Amsterdam

Computer Science Department/ Informatics Institute

COLNET Group

Science Park 107

NL-1098 XG AMSTERDAM

The Netherlands

Tel. +31 20 525 7512

Fax +31 20 525 7490

e-mail: h.afsarmanesh@uva.nl

Vice-Chair

For North & South America:

Dr. Ricardo J. RABELO

Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina

DAS – Dept. of Automation and Systems, GSIGMA

PO Box 476

FLORIANOPOLIS

SC 088040-900

Brazil

Tel. +55 48 331 9387 x 204

Fax +55 48 234 1519

e-mail rabelo@das.ufsc.br

For Australia and Asia:

Dr. Peter BERTOK

RMIT University

School of Computer Science & Information Technology

GPO Box 2476

MELBOURNE 3001

Australia

Tel. +61 3 9925 1851

Fax +61 3 9662 1617

e-mail:

peter.bertok@rmit.edu.au

For Europe:

Dr. Ing. Xavier BOUCHER

ENSMSE-Ecole Nationale

Superieure des Mines de St. Etienne

158 Cours Fauriel

FR-42023 ST. ETIENNE Cedex

France

Tel. +33 04 77 42 01 33

Fax +33 04 77 42 66 66

e-mail: boucher@emse.fr

BR
CA

CH
CR

Rolando Vallejos
Weiming Shen

Myrna Flores

Michel Pouly
Cesar Garita

Bernhard Katzy

Kurt Kosanke

Frederique Biennier

Pierre Maret

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IT
IT

Francois Vernadat

Garyfallos Fragidis

Adamantios Koumpis

Julius Herman
György L. Kovacs

Dario Antonelli
Rinaldo C. Michelini
Roberto Santoro

Toshiya Kaihara

PT
PT

PT
PT
PT
US

Tomasz Janowski
Arturo Molina

Americo Azevedo

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Goran Putnik
Luis Osorio
Jorge Pinho Sousa
H. Ted Goranson
Shimon Y. Nof

WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems

est. 1978, revised 1986, 1989, 2000, 2008 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.ifipwg57.polimi.it/

Chair
Prof. Marco TAISCH
Politecnico di Milano
Dip. di Ingegneria Gestionale
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
IT-20133 MILANO
Italy
Tel. +39 02 2399 4815
Fax +39 02 2399 2700
e-mail: marco.taisch@polimi.it

Vice-Chairs
for Europe:
Dr. Volker STICH
FIR Forschungsinstitut für Rationalisierung an der RWTH Aachen
Pontdriesch 14/16
DE-52062 AACHEN
Germany
Tel. +49 241 477 05 104
Fax +49 241 477 05 198
e-mail: st@fir.rwth-aachen.de

for America:
Prof. Thomas R.GULLEDGE,Jr
George Mason University
Enterprise Eng., MS 2E4
FAIRFAX, Virginia 22030-4444
USA
Tel. +1 703 993 3184
e-mail: gulledge@gmu.edu

for Asia-Pacific:
Prof. Shigeki UMEDA
Musashi University
1-26 Toyotama-kami Nerima, TOKYO 176-8534
Japan
Tel. +81 35 984 3837
Fax +81 33 991 1198
e-mail: shigeki@cc.musashi.ac.jp

Secretary

Prof. Dimitris KIRITSIS
Ecole Polytechnique

Fédérale de Lausanne

ME A1 396 (Bâtiment ME)

Station 9,

CH-1015 LAUSANNE

Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 693 51 63
Fax +41 21 693 35 53
e-mail: dimitris.kiritsis@epfl.ch

CH
CH
CN
CN
CZ
DE
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DK
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FR
FR

Alfred Büchel*
Thomas E. Ruppli
Paul Schönsleben
Renchu Gan
Guang Xun Yang
Lenka Landryova
Siegfried Augustin
Bernd Hamacher
Bernd E. Hirsch*
Jan Peter Lechner
Kai Mertins
Klaus-Dieter Thoben
Hans-Hermann Wiendahl
Hans-Peter Wiendahl
Gert Zülch
Peter Falster
Hans-Henrik Hvolby
John Johansen
Jens Ove Riis
Ken Steger-Jensen
Eero Eloranta

Riitta Smeds

Kari Tanskanen
Frédérique Biennier

Abdelaziz Bouras

Guy Doumeingts

GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GB
GR
GR
ID
IE

IE
IL
IT

IT
IT
IT

JP
JP

Joel Favrel

Bruno Vallespir

Umit Bititci
Mike Bourne
Allan S. Carrie*
Stephen Childe
Christopher Irgens
Ashok K. Kochhar
Ioannis A. Pappas*
Ilias Tatsiopoulos
Indra Djodikusumo
Jim Browne

Harinder Singh Jagdev
Gideon Halevi
Marco Garetti

Alberto Portioli

Sergio Terzi
Mario Tucci
Agostino Villa
Eiji Arai

Susumu Fuji
Masahiko Fuyuki

Ichiro Inoue
Toshiya Kaihara
Masura Nakano

Norio Okino*

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NL

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US
US
US
US
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US

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa*
Jinwoo Park
Henk-Jan Pels
J. E. Rooda
Jacques H. Trienekens
Hans Wortmann
Bjorn Andersen
Heidi C. Dreyer
Jan Frick
Asbjörn Rolstadas
Jan Ola Strandhagen
Tomasz Koch
Edward T. Radosinski
Krzysztof Santarek
Stanislaw Strzelczak
Luis Manuel Camarinha-Matos
Robert W. Grubbström
Jan Olhager
Fredrik Persson
Gunduz Ulusoy
Andrew Kusiak
Charles R. McLean
John P. Shewchuk
Rainer A. Sommer
Kathryn E. Stecke
Richard Lee Storch

*) Honorary member

WG5.8 Enterprise Interoperability

est.2006, revised 2008 Aims and Scopes

Chair
Prof. Dr. Guy DOUMEINGTS
Université Bordeaux1
LAPS / IMS
351 Cours de la Libération
FR-33405 TALENCE Cedex
France
Tel. +33 607 05 73 52
Fax +33 540 00 31 32
e-mail: guy.doumeingts@ims-bordeaux.fr

Vice-Chairs

Prof. Xiaofei XU

Harbin Institute of Technology

School of Computer Science & Technology

92 West Dazhi Street

HARBIN 150001,

P. R. China

Tel. +86 451 86413316

Fax +86 451 86413309

e-mail: xiaofei@hit.edu.cn

Prof. Kai MERTINS

Fraunhofer IPK

Pascalstrasse 8-9

DE-10587 BERLIN

Germany

Tel. +49 30 39 006233

Fax +49 30 39 32503

e-mail: kai.mertins@ipk.fraunhofer.de

Secretary
Prof. Lea KUTVONEN

University of Helsinki

Department of Computer Science

FI-00014 HELSINKI

Finland

Tel. + 358 9 191 51362

Fax + 358 9 191 51120

e-mail: lea.kutvonen@cs.helsinki.fi

Prof. Pontus JOHNSON

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

School of Electrical Engineering

Osquldas väg 12, 7tr

SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM

Sweden

Tel. +46 8 790 6825

Fax +46 8 790 6839

e-mail: pj101@ics.kth.se

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Christian Fichtenbauer

Georg Weichhart
Patrick Heymans

Johnny Huysentruyt
Robert Meersman
Pierre-Yves Schobbens

Roumen Nikolov

Tanya Tan
Xiaoquing Tang

Cuilian Zhao
Thomas Fischer

Reinhard Hutter
Roland Jochem

Stephan Kassel

Kurt Kosanke

Ulrike Lechner
Jörg Müller

Klaus-Dieter Naujok
Sven-Volker Rehm
Ricardo Chalmeta

Luis Fernandez

GB
GB

GB
GR

Raul Poler

Inaki Zugasti

Vincent Chapurlat

David Chen

Alexandre Dolgui

Yves Ducq

Parisa Ghodous

Hervé Pingaud

Colette Rolland

Bruno Vallespir

Francois Vernadat

Theo Dimitrakos

Nick Dowler
Ip-Shing Fan

Antonis Kokossis

Damian Mc Randal

Bryan Wood
Ioannis Kotsiopoulos
Cristos Nikolaou

Sakis Psonis

Ken Halpin

SE
SE
US
US

Pierluigi Assogna
Alessandro D’Atri

Piero De Sabbata

Carlo di Vittorio

Arturo Molina

João Paulo Almeida

Manfred Jeusfeld

Paul Oude Luttighuis

Marten van Sinderen

Nel Wognum

Hans Wortmann

Andreas Opdahl
Fatima Farinha

Ricardo Goncalves
Leonid Kalinichenko

Paul Davidsson

Kurt Sandkuhl
Ruth Sommar
Isabel Cruz

Ted Goranson

WG 5.10 Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds

est. 1987, revised 1994 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://miralabwww.unige.ch/~ifip/

Chair
Prof. Dr. Rae A. EARNSHAW
Univ.of Bradford
Dept. of Electronic Imaging
and Media Communications
Richmond Rd
BRADFORD
West Yorkshire BD7 1DP
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1 274 234 001
Fax +44 1 274 233 727
e-mail: r.a.earnshaw@bradford.ac.uk

Vice-Chair
Prof. Jose L. ENCARNACAO
Fraunhofer-Institut für
Graphische Datenverarbeitung
Rundeturmstr. 6
DE-64283 DARMSTADT Germany
Tel. +49 6151 155130
Fax +49 6151 155430
e-mail: jle@igd.fhg.de


AT BG BE BR CH CH CH CN CN DE DE DK ES ES FI GB	Hermann Maurer Stoyan Maleshkov Eddy Flerackers Leo P. Magalhaes Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann Peter Stucki Daniel Thalmann Jiaoying Shi Zesheng Tang Detlef Kochan Franz E. Wolter Niels Jorgen Christensen Pere Brunet Juan Flaquer Martti Mantyla Ken Brodlie	GB GB HU IN IN IT IT IT IT IT JP JP KR MX NL PT	Bob Hopgood Susan Laflin Miklos Bathor Sudhir P. Mudur Yogesh N. Shinde Fulvio Bresciani Giorgio P. Faconti Bianca Falcidieno Laura Moltedo Franco Pallavicini Tosiyasu L. Kunii Yasuhito Suenaga Sung Yong Shin Gerardo L. Lastra Paul ten Hagen Mario Rui Gomes	PT RU SE SG US US US US US US US US US US US US	Jose C. Teixeira Stanislav Klimenko Lars Kjelldahl Tat-Seng Chua Haruhiko Asada Norman Badler Peter R. Bono Steve Carson Steve Cunningham Georges G. Grinstein Donald H. House Arie Kaufman Alex Pentland Juris Reinfelds Larry Rosenblum Michael Wozny

WG 5.11 Computers and Environment

est. 1991, revised 1992 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.enviromatics.org

Chair
Prof. Dr. David A. SWAYNE
University of Guelph
Dept. of Computing & Inf. Sc.
GUELPH, ON, N1G 2W1
Canada
Tel. +1 519 824 4120 53411
Fax +1 519 837 0323
e-mail: dswayne@cis.uoguelph.ca

Vice-Chair
Dr. Robert ARGENT
Water Division

Bureau of Meteorology

MELBOURNE, Victoria 3000

Australia
Tel. +61 3 86388207

Fax +61 3 86388200

e-mail: r.argent@bom.gov.au

Secretary
Dr. Steven P. FRYSINGER
James Madison University
ISAT Department - MSC 4102
701 Carrier Drive
HARRISONBURG, VA 22807
USA
Tel. +1 540 568 2710
Fax +1 540 568 2768
e-mail: frysinsp@jmu.edu

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CA

Gerald Schimak
Werner Pillmann

Anthony Jakeman
John Norton

Virginia Brilhante
William Booty
Daryl H. Hepting
David Lam

Alexander Storey

Andrea Rizzoli

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CZ
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CZ

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DE
DE
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DE

Ioannis Athanasiadis
Jiri Hradec
Jiri Hrebicek
Jaroslav Racek

David Strnad
Ralf Denzer
Ernst E. Doberkat
Peter Fischer
Reiner Guettler
Roman Lenz

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GR

US
US
ZA

Thomas Usländer
Kostas Karatzas
Nazzareno Diodato

Giorgio Guariso
Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa

Chris George

Daniel Ames
Nigel Quinn
Gavin Fleming

WG 5.12 Architectures for Enterprise Integration

est. 1995 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~bernus/ifip/WG5.12/

Chair
Prof. Dr. Peter BERNUS
Griffith University
School of Computing & Inf.
NATHAN, Queensland 4111
Australia
Tel. +61 7 875 5039
Fax +61 7 875 5051
e-mail:

p.bernus@griffith.edu.au

Vice-Chair
Prof. Richard H. WESTON
Loughborough Univ. of Techn.
LOUGHBOROUGH LE1 3TU, United Kingdom

Tel. +44 1509 222 907
Fax +44 1509 267 725
e-mail: r.h.weston@lut.ac.uk

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Peter Kopacek
Norbert Rozsenich
Laszlo Nemes
Ljibisa Vlacic
Fadi G. Fadel
Mark Fox
John Mylopoulos
Ajit Pardasani
Yuliu Chen
Zengjin Han
Kurt Kosanke
Matthias Jarke
Roland Jochem
Gunter Schmidt
H. J. Molstand
Johan Vesterager
Luis Basanez

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FR
FR
FR
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GB
GB
HU
HU
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IT
JP
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JP

Angel Ortiz
Vincent Chapurlat
David Chen
Guy Doumeingts
Joel Favrel
Francois Vernadat
John Edwards
S.K. Banerjee
David Shorter
Geza Haidegger
György L. Kovacs
Jim Browne
Marco Garetti
Yoshiro Fukuda
Atsushi Inamoto
Yusaku ShibataArturo Molina Gutierrez

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US

US
US
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US
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Ziqiong Deng
João José Pinto Ferreira
Mihai Avram
Florin Filip
Cheng Leong Ang
Sam Bansal
Brane Kalpic
James Brosvic
Christoph J. Bussler
Michael Gruninger
Bruce Guthridge
Hong Li
Jim Nell
James Nevins
Leo Obrst
Jakob Vlietstra
Theodore J. Williams

SIG Bioinformatics

est. 2004 – dissolved 2007

TC5 - Information Technology Applications

WG 5.1 Global Product Development for the whole life-cycle

(The membership list is still evolving)

WG 5.4 Computer Aided Innovation est. 2005 Aims and Scopes URL: http://www.computeraidedinnovation.net/

WG 5.5 Co-operation Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises and Electronic Business - "COVE"

WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems

*) Honorary member

WG5.8 Enterprise Interoperability

WG 5.10 Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds

WG 5.11 Computers and Environment

WG 5.12 Architectures for Enterprise Integration

SIG Bioinformatics

WG 5.4 Computer Aided Innovation

est. 2005 Aims and Scopes
URL: http://www.computeraidedinnovation.net/