TC5
– Information Technology Applications - Aims and Scopes
est. 1970, rev. 2004
AIMS
To promote research and the development of fundamental
concepts, models, and theories to support applications of Information
Technology.
Research: To identify and study advanced
issues related to the application of techniques and information technologies
that automate, integrate, and optimize the processes of innovation, design,
production and management, including environmental issues.
Communication: To provide an
international forum for government, academia, research and industry for the
dissemination, publication and peer review of information, research, education
and practices.
Collaboration: To foster
interdisciplinary work and to collaborate with other Technical Committees,
Working Groups and global professional organizations with allied interests.
SCOPES
This Technical Committee provides a focus for
multi-disciplinary research into the application of information technologies
and practices to facilitate information management - that is, to make it easier
for people to have up-to-date knowledge, to be flexible, and to adapt. Some
non-exclusive examples are:
Product Lifecycle Management
Digital Engineering / Digital Modeling and Simulation / Digital
Manufacturing
Computer Aided Product Realization
Integrated Manufacturing / Production Management including Data
Management for Production, Process Planning and Tools
Virtual Product Creation, Visualization and Digital Verification of
Product and Process
Environmental Information and Decision Support Systems for Environmental
Monitoring, Management, Research and Policy, including Risk and Crisis
Management
Virtual collaboration supporting the interaction between product,
production, supply chain management, recycling and end of life disposal
Enterprise integration to facilitate product realization.
WG5.1 – Global Product Development for the whole life-cycle
est. 2006, revised 2009
AIMS
The aim of the WG is to understand
the impact of the whole product life-cycle on product development.
One of the major issues is to
analyze and take into account the interaction of products with the
environment which has a strategic importance for the sustainability of future
economic development.
The reason is that a product’s
life-cycle costs (the total costs and impacts of ownership), which play a
key role in the move toward product-service systems (PSS), become more and
more important in the
new economic environment. The objectives are to propose new approaches for
product development
taking account of the importance of life-cycle issues, and to develop IT
systems supporting product
information in a sustainable way through the product life-cycle. These approaches
would include the
consideration of “Green Technology,” so important for our world’s
future.
SCOPE
The scope of the WG concerns all aspects of Product Development for the whole
life-cycle, including rapid
product development and concept validation, CAD tools for early design,
collaborative product development,
capture and reuse of design information, feedback from the supply chain, usage
and product recycle
management, etc. More specifically, the following topics are included in the scope
of the WG:
Global Product Development (global products, global teams, global
processes).
Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) (product life-cycle phases, PLM
systems architecture, distributed PLM systems).
Product Life-cycle Engineering concepts and methods (design for the life
cycle, life-cycle analysis, through-life aspects – feedback from users
and service, knowledge lifecycle management and long-term knowledge
sustainment, product-service systems).
New organizational issues within Product Life-cycle Engineering
(collaboration strategies, business strategies and benefits, infrastructure and
environment, support tools, collaboration environments and platforms, virtual
and simulation environments, infrastructure and implementation processes,
interoperability and security issues).
Generic issues (value, risk and cost management, emerging standards and
best practices, metrics and benchmarking, performance evaluation, educational
and training approaches).
WG5.4 - Computer-Aided Innovation
est. 2005, revised 2008
AIMS
1.
To contribute to identify the underlying scientific foundation of
Computer Aided Innovation and also to evaluate their effectiveness and
efficiency.
2.
To identify the state of the art and trends of Computer Aided Innovation
Software and its tools and methods by discussing organizational, technological
and cognitive aspects of the application of CAI methods and tools.
3.
To promote the development of Computer Aided Innovation Software focusing
on end-to-end product creation process with methods and tools to ensure the
feasibility and success of innovations.
4.
To address the main motivations of the industrial sector, regarding the
engineering innovation activity with computer tools and methods.
5.
To address the main motivations of the academic community regarding
theoretical foundations of computer aided innovation.
SCOPE
·
The Working Group will promote regular working conferences, seminars and
workshops on Computer Aided Innovation calling for contributions for clarifying
the role of computer aided innovation tools.
·
The Working Group will focus in connecting together managers, engineers,
scientists and academics interested in pushing forward the development of this
new kind of tools and methods.
·
The Working Group will promote that the best papers presented at its
conferences, seminars and workshops will be further developed and enhanced for
being published in selected journals with high impact.
WG5.5 – COVE: Cooperation Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises and electronic Business
est. 2001
AIMS
To promote and encourage the research and
technological development on many aspects of business practices, advanced tools
and mechanisms, and forthcoming standards, in the areas of virtual
organizations, virtual enterprises, and advanced electronic business models.
To contribute to the harmonization and knowledge dissemination of world-wide
research results on virtual organizations and collaborative networks, and to
foster needed collaborative developments.
SCOPE
· Reference architectures for virtual organizations including life cycle
models
· Collaboration models in networked organizations
· Interoperability infrastructures in collaborative web-based environments
· Safe communications and authentication frameworks
· Distributed/federated information and knowledge management
· Assessment of the role of ontology and standards
· Planning and supervision of distributed business processes
· New value systems and assessment methods
· Collaboration coordination and management
· Supporting functions for the full life cycle of virtual organizations
· Novel paradigms and methods to support distributed collaborative
processes.
WG5.7 Advances in Production
Management Systems
est. 1978, revised 1986, 1989, 2000, 2008
AIMS
The aim of WG 5.7 is to promote and
encourage the advancement of knowledge and practice in the field of Integrated
Production Management and to maximize global dissemination of this knowledge.
This broad aim is achieved by:
- Continuous development and refinement of a
research agenda.
- Developing a research culture that nurtures
research that addresses industrial need whilst maintaining academic
excellence.
- Disseminating R&D results and best practices
globally to both academics and practitioners through the groups annual
conference and the activities of its special interest groups.
SCOPE
design and implementation of new production planning and control systems
taking into account new technology and management philosophy;
CAPM in a CIM environment
including interfaces to CAD and
project management and cost engineering;
knowledge-engineering in CAPM;
CAPM for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) and Flexible Assembly
Systems (FAS);
methods and concepts in CAPM;
economic and social implications of CAPM.
Supply Chain Management
Operations and manufacturing strategy
Simulation
Business Process Management
Performance Measurement and Benchmarking
Knowledge Management
Information systems design, modeling and management
Implications of e-Manufacturing, e-Business, e-Commerce
Production management in virtual and extended enterprises and production
networks
WG5.8 Enterprise Interoperability
est. 2006, revised 2008
AIMS
The purpose of this Working Group is to progress and
to disseminate research and development results in the area of Enterprise
Interoperability.
The goal of this group is to bring together experts of multiple disciplines
that contribute to this field.
The result of this research is to enable enterprises(networked enterprise,
extended enterprise, administration, virtual organizations) or organizational units,
applications to interoperate seamlessly with each other either inside and
enterprise or among independent enterprises.
Specifically, the goals of the WG are:
G1: to identify the
scientific foundation of enterprise interoperability and promote its acceptance
by the scientific community and all stakeholders;
G2: to identify and to classify the
key problems of interoperability to contribute to the elaboration of roadmaps
through identifying new research challenges and to facilitate the creation of
research projects;
G3: to identify practical tools,
methods, architectures and solutions and promote their usage;
G4: to promote the activities and to
disseminate the vision of the WG through organizing conferences, workshops and
other related activities;
G5: to promote education and to
promote the development of the discipline interoperability;
G6: to contribute to the
standardization.
SCOPE
Activities
Activity 1: to define and characterize
“Enterprise Interoperability”
1.1 describe/define enterprise interoperability
1.2 define glossary of terms used in enterprise interoperability
1.3 Review periodically
Activity 2: to identify and characterize
key interoperability problems and research issues, deriving them from case
studies and practical solution tools and architectures
2.1 to analyze existing project results to identify key interoperability
problems, Kai Mertins
2.2 to collect industrial experience scenarios (use cases) using the defined
template
2.3 to collect and classify practical tools, methods, architectures and
solutions to be used in
the framework
Activity 3: to contribute to the
scientific foundation of Enterprise Interoperability
3.1 Use a defined framework for classification of the issues
3.2 to create, maintain and use a conceptual structure of enterprise
interoperability issues
3.3 to classify previous research results using the framework to identify open
research problems
3.4 to use the template to structure the key interoperability problems
3.5 to identify new theoretical contribution to enterprise interoperability
area by other research disciplines
3.6 to develop metrics and maturity model for enterprise interoperability
Activity 4: Provide a roadmap for
Enterprise Interoperability
4.1 to identify
and analyze the existing roadmaps and other strategic programs on the field of
enterprise interoperability
4.2 to provide recommendations on the definition of a new roadmap based on the
results of the analysis and the outcome of activities related to goal 1. The
roadmap should identify barriers, opportunities and challenges related to the
field of enterprise interoperability and a time plan to address topics related
to these challenges
4.3 to facilitate the creation of research projects
Activity 5: to identify subjects for
standardization and the standardization bodies that (could) cover these
subjects
5.1 to propose certain subjects for the standardization to standardization
bodies and offer support
Activity 6: Education
6.1 to identify
and collect existing courses at Bachelor and Master level, Academic and
professional
6.2 to define reference curricula for enterprise interoperability education
6.3 organize and sponsor summer schools for master and doctoral students and
for professionals
Activity 7: Dissemination of the results
of the WG
7.1 to publish and disseminate all the results of our activities in order to
promote the work performed,
7.2 to organize and sponsor conferences, workshops and seminars in the field of
enterprise interoperability
7.3 Dissemination of definition and terms
WG5.10 - Computer Graphics and
Virtual Worlds
est. 1987, revised 1994, 2012
AIMS
To promote and encourage the advancement
of the field of computer graphics, visualization, and virtual reality in
science and technology.
To organize and
coordinate the International Conference on Cyberworlds
as the workgroup's annual conference.
SCOPE
Computer graphics and web visualization; Geometric and
Solid modeling; Computer Animation; Real-time rendering;
Virtual humans and avatars; Shared virtual worlds; Virtual collaborative
spaces; Telepresence; Haptic
rendering and haptic interaction;
Simulation and training in virtual environments; Augmented and mixed reality;
Computer games; Multi-user internet games; Art and heritage in cyberspace;
Cyber-museums; Cyberworlds and their impact on the
real worlds; Information visualization; Visual analytics; Interactive
techniques; Applications.
WG5.11 - Computers and Environment
est. 1991, revised 1992
AIMS
To investigate existing methods and applications of
computer based technologies to environmental engineering, environmental
protection, and environmental research.
SCOPE
Monitoring and remote sensing of environmental variables.
GIS and mapping systems.
Natural resources conservation (land, water, noise ...).
Hazardous waste management.
Environmental impact assessment.
Environmental information and decision support systems.
Environmental AI applications.
Cultural and artistic patrimony protection.
WG5.12 - Architectures for
est.1995, revised 2008
AIMS
To foster research into enterprise
architecture, and in particular enterprise architecture frameworks,
enterprise engineering methodologies, enterprise modeling and generic
enterprise models / ontologies;
To identify theoretically sound and practically viable techniques for
the process of change toward the integrated enterprise.
The multi-disciplinary
perspective of this working group requires the synthesis of relevant results
from other disciplines, such as Manufacturing Engineering and Management,
Industrial Engineering, Management Science, Information Systems and Systems
Engineering as well as can build on results from the Software Engineering
discipline.
Active involvement
and liaison with relevant standardisation bodies, such as
o
ISO TC184 Industrial Automation Systems and Integration SC5 WG1 on
Modeling and Architecture
o
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Software and Systems Engineering WG42 on Architecture
SCOPE
The scope of this working group is intended to foster information exchange and evaluation
of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and associated
Generic building blocks and reference models
applicable to EA, such as intra- and inter- enterprise integration, agent-based
integration, information integration infrastructure, organisational models,
self-similar structures, and reusable industry-specific models.
In particular the WG is mainly involved in the
following types of activities:
Scholarly evaluation of enterprise architecture frameworks that capture
the life-cycle of the enterprise and its constituent entities. This aspect of
the WG activity is addressed through the active liaison and co-sponsorship
activities with other relevant Working Group and Technical Committees of IFIP,
and other organisations conducting research and development in this area, such
as IFAC, and the continued organisation
of the ICEIMT conference series.
Evaluation of the physical and functional architectures of information
systems, industrial production – or service systems, as well as EA
program architectures (such as Information-, Process-, Applications- and
Technical Architecture, as well as models of the Organisation) for complete
enterprise live-cycle development and management. This aspect of the WG
activity is mainly addressed through liaison and participation in relevant
standard bodies.
WG5.13 – Bioinformatics and
its Applications
est. 2010
AIMS
- Develop
theoretical and technological foundations for meeting the challenges of
bioinformatics and its applications.
- To
understand and identify the challenges of Bioinformatics, and its
Applications for development of skills, software tools, databases and
solving real life problems related to health, food, energy, environment
and agriculture etc.
- To
integrate Global biological data, information and knowledge resources for
meeting the challenges of bioinformatics.
- Create &
promote Inter disciplinary teams/groups for developing new educational
training programs, technology dissemination, research and development with
focus on bioinformatics & its applications.
SCOPE
-
WG will serve as platform to create expertise and pool of scientists in
various areas of bioinformatics
from institutions all over the world to
understand the new challenges and opportunities.
-
Encourage sharing of knowledge and resources like biotech
infrastructure, grid computing
infrastructure, databases, softwares
and other electronic resources.
-
To develop and enhance excellence through new educational training
programs in various areas of
bioinformatics.
-
It will serve as forum with central focus to improve understanding and R
& D on various aspects of
bioinformatics.
-
To provide a forum for dissemination of Scientific and technological
knowledge in the field of
bioinformatics by organizing seminars,
conferences, need based faculty training programs
-
To provide support for research & development and establish linkages
with biotech, pharmaceutical
and IT industry.
-
Provide a platform for interaction among scientists from various
disciplines like IT, computer science,
mathematics, life sciences, agricultural
sciences and medical sciences for research and development of
biological databases, bioinformatics softwares, integration of resources and applications in
areas of
health, energy , food, environment and
agriculture.
WG5.14 - Advanced Information Processing
for Agriculture
est. 2010 (SIG5.1), rev. 2012
AIMS
The IFIP Special Interesting Group (SIG) on Computer
and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA)
encourages the development towards a science and technology of CCTA, through pursuit of the
following aims:
· to promote the use of knowledge and methods from the computer and
computing sciences in the agriculture;
- to illustrate the experiences and
publications of the government and institutes, and also the profitable
technologies and policies on agriculture;
- to provide business opportunities on
communicating with participants, including researchers, IT professionals,
consultants and government officials;
· to provide opportunities of exchanging knowledge, strategies and
experiences between par participants;
· Promote and encourage interactions among agriculture Scientists,
Meteorologists, Biologists
(Pathologists/Entomologists) with IT Professional and other stakeholders to
develop and implement methods, techniques, tools, and issues related to
information & knowledge management systems in agriculture technology.
· Create expert pool of scientists, R&D personnel on global level in
various agro-advisory domains using IT tools.
· Develop and enhance excellence through new educational training programs
and technology dissemination among faculty members, professionals and students.
· Establish and strengthen the link between academia, R&D companies,
institutions government organization and professional bodies etc for best
utilization of resources.
· Develop support in teaching and learning process Act as platform for
transfer of knowledge and information in agriculture and related sciences and
technology to professionals, faculty, students and organization.
· Serve as platform for dissemination of scientific and technological
knowledge in the field of agro-advisories especially based on IT applications.
· Organize various need based faculty training programs in various areas
of IT applications in agriculture.
The topic will
include:
1. Computer and Agriculture
· Scientific and technological support for the infrastructure construction
in agriculture and rural informatization;
- Universal information service technology
and service systems development in rural areas;
- The simulation models and decision-support
systems for animals and plants management;
- Virtual agriculture technology;
- The inspection and traceability technology
for agricultural product quality;
- E-commerce technology for agricultural
products;
- The application of information and
communication technology in agriculture;
- Intelligent system in Agriculture.
2. Precision
Agriculture and advanced computing
· The application and development of GPS, GIS and RS in agriculture and
the technological innovation for farm-used products;
- Novel Sensors and data processing
technology for the effective information acquisition of agricultural
biology, resources and environment
- The management decision-support and the
prescription generation technology of variable operation for farm crops
and livestock production system
- Intelligent precise-control technology for
farm machinery equipment and agricultural facilities
- System integration technology of precision
agriculture in
· Practice and prospect of precision agriculture development in
· To create and promote expert groups for development of
agro-meteorological databases, crop modeling software and applications for
development of crop performance based decision support system.
· Encourage younger generation of students/researchers to join this
emerging area.
For
the recognition of successful initiatives by government NGOs institutions and
individuals for promotion of growth and prosperity of agriculture it is
proposed to institute international awards for research and development
activities in the areas of agriculture as below;
* By establishing and maintaining liaison with national and
international organisations with allied interests and
to foster cooperative action, collaborative research and information exchange.
* To identify subjects and priorities for research, to stimulate
theoretical work on fundamental issues and to foster fundamental research which will underpin future development.
* To provide a forum for professionals with a view to promoting the
study, collection, exchange and dissemination of ideas, information and
research findings and thereby to promote the state of the art.
* To
seek and use the most effective ways of disseminating information about
the work of the group including the organisation of conferences, workshops and symposia and the
timely production of relevant publications.
* To
have special regard for the needs of developing countries and to seek practicable
ways of working with them.
* To
encourage communication and to promote interaction between users, practitioners
and researchers.
* To
foster interdisciplinary work and, in particular, to collaborate with other
Technical Committees and Working Groups.
SCOPE
WG/SIG will serve as platform to create expertise and
pool of scientists in various areas of agricultural and related sciences from
institution all over the world. This information will be provided online for
use by various user communities.
To develop and enhance excellence through new
educational training programs in various areas of crop/soil modeling &
other IT applications which can be delivered in the institution across the
world through standalone and virtual programs.
It will serve as a platform
to provide information and other resources of professionals, faculty and
students for promotion of bioinformatics activities.
To provide a forum for developing teaching and learning
process in different disciplines with central focus to improve understanding
and R&D on various aspect of agricultural and related sciences.
To provide a forum for dissemination of Scientific and
technological knowledge in the field of agricultural and related sciences by
organizing seminars/conferences and developing databases, web sites etc.
Organize various need based faculty training programs
in various areas of agricultural and related sciences.
Provide a platform for interaction among scientists
form various disciplines like IT, computer science, mathematics life sciences,
agricultural sciences and meteorological sciences for the development of
agricultural and related sciences.
Promote and encourage the collaborations among
scientists to create inter disciplinary groups for research and development of
biological databases, bioinformatics software and application in areas of
weather, pest/disease and agriculture.
Encourage sharing of knowledge and resources like agrometeorological infrastructure, data communicating
infrastructure, grid computing infrastructure data software and other
electronic resources.