2004 - Uninova
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2004 - Uninova
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At UNL the unit is integrated in the Department of Electrical Engineering. At UNINOVA the unit is integrated in the Center for Intelligent Robotics. The activities described in this report were carried on in the two institutions. () *(+, Research team: ♦ Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos – Group Coordinator ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Dr. José Barata Oliveira – Auxiliary Professor João Rosas – Assistant Tiago Cardoso – Assistant Luis Octavio Castollo – PhD Student António Abreu – PhD Student Filipa Ferrada – Engineer Ana Inês Oliveira – Engineer Elisabete Fonte – Secretary [email protected] www.uninova.pt/~cam [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] '&%-& Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA / UNINOVA Quinta da Torre - 2829-516 Monte Caparica PORTUGAL Fax +351-21-2941253 Tel. +351-21-2948517 Email: [email protected] URL: www.uninova.pt/cri/GRCIM UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 3 (,(%+-. /#-, Current research activities include the following main topics: Collaborative Networks o Virtual enterprises / Virtual organizations o Virtual communities o VO Breeding environments Multi-Agent Systems in Manufacturing and Elderly Care Remote supervision in distributed systems Manufacturing Information Systems and Integration Manufacturing Systems Re-engineering + 0(-&, IST TeleCARE June 2001 – June 2004 The purpose of this project is to develop a framework for tele-supervision of elderly people living alone towards a virtual community for elderly assistance, using a multiagent approach including both stationary and mobile agents. http://www.uninova.pt/~telecare Group’s role: - International project coordination - Architecture definition - Design and development of the multi-agent and mobile agent system. - Design and development of virtual community support services (e.g. Time bank) - Coordination of system integration and field assessment activities Total funding: 1 900 000 euros Uninova’s funding: 529 600 euros Partners: UNINOVA, Portugal A Multiagent Telesupervision System for Elderly Care University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Synkronix Ltd, UK Skill SA, Spain RoundRose Associates, UK Camera de Comércio de Navarra, Spain UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 4 IST ECOLEAD European Collaborative Networked Organizations Leadership Initiative IP 506958 April 2004 – March 2007 www.ecolead.org Total funding: 9 747 000 euros Uninova’s funding: 1 079 920 euros ECOLEAD is a 6th Framework Program Integrated Project that aims at creating the necessary strong foundations and mechanisms for establishing an advanced collaborative and network-based industry society in Europe. The ECOLEAD vision is that in ten years, in response to fast changing market conditions, most enterprises and specially the SMEs will be part of some sustainable collaborative networks that will act as breeding environments for the formation of dynamic virtual organizations. A holistic approach, combining VO Breading Environments, VO Management, Professional Virtual Communities, Theoretical Foundation and ICT Infrastructures, is followed. Group’s role: - Scientific & Technical Direction of the Integrated Project. - Coordination of the integration aspects. - Coordination of the Theoretical Foundation area. - VO creation framework. - Contribution to VO Breeding Environment framework and Professional Virtual Communities framework. Partners: VTT (FI), UNINOVA (PT), University of Amsterdam (NL), TeS Teleinformatica e Sistemi (IT), Virtuelle Fabrik AG (CH), Gruppo Formula SPA (IT), Software AG España, S.A. (ES), T.X.T. e-solutions SPA (IT), Jozef Stefan Institute (SI), BIBA (DE), Czech Technical University (CZ), Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina (BR), ITESM (MX), Enicma GmbH DE), Certicon A.S. (CZ), LogicaCMG Nederland B.V. (NL), France Telecom SA (FR), Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Oesterreich (AT), Stichting AIESEC International (NL), Comarch SA (PL). IST EUPASS Evolvable Ultra-Precision Assembly Systems IP - Uninova’s funding: 350 000 euros EUPASS is a 6th framework Integrated Project on reconfigurable microassembly systems. The EUPASS project aims to develop affordable, cost effective and sustainable ultra-precision manufacturing solutions by offering rapidly deployable ultra-precision assembly services on demand. Group’s role: - Identification of the key industrial needs in precision assembly in the short, medium and long-term. - Development of a coherent vision for the successful development & application of UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit precision assembly technologies within the EUPASS frame. Disseminate via Roadmap. Participation in the design of the overall EUPASS system architecture (assembly module platform), including multidisciplinary standardized interfaces, communication and decentralised control. Development of the control system for the individual modules. Partners: Philips (NL), UNINOVA (PT), KTH (SE) TUT (FI) Feintool (CH), FHSO (CH), EPFL (CH), Bosch (DE), Festo (DE), IEF Werner (DE), FhG (DE), FZ Karlsruhe (DE), Beckhoff (DE), VDI-VDE (DE), Electrolux (IT), Masmec (IT), ITIA (IT), TQC (UK), UNOTT (UK), UFC, Flexlink (SE). 5 (&1 +2, IST THINKcreative Thinking network of experts on emerging smart organizations Jul 2001 – Mar 2004 www.thinkcreative.org Total funding: 495 000 euros Uninova’s funding: 187 470 euros THINKcreative aims at establishing a working group to act as a European advisory group in the area of smart and emerging organizations in the framework of the "knowledge and skills economy". The general goal is to identify and characterize the emerging organizational forms, the required infrastructures, modeling and application tools, and socio-organizational needs for the next 5, 10, and 20 years. Group’s role: - International project coordination - Identification and characterization of new collaborative forms and required IT infrastructures. - Coordination of the preparation of a green book – research agenda on advanced collaborative networked organizations - Organization of various workshops Partners: UNINOVA (PT), FhG-IAO (DE), University of Amsterdam (NL), RoundRose Associates (UK), Czech Technical University (CZ), CAS (DE), SKANDIA (SE), CeTIM (DE), FhG-FOKUS (DE), Cranfield University (UK), INESC-Porto (PT) IST VOSTER Virtual Organizations Cluster Duration: Dec 2001 – July 2004 http://cic.vtt.fi/projects/voster/public.html Uninova’s funding: 112 161 euros UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit The aim of VOSTER is to collect, analyse and synthesize the results from a number of leading European research projects on Virtual Organisation (VO), i.e. geographically distributed, functionally and culturally diverse, dynamic and agile organisational entities linked through ICT. Group’s role: -Coordination of the work package on infrastructures for VE/VO. -Coordination of the preparation of a book on consolidation of the state of the art on virtual organizations Partners: VTT (FI), FhG-IAO (DE), CeTIM (DE), UNINOVA (PT), University of Aachem (DE), Loughborough University (UK), Technical University of Dresden (DE), University of Salford (UK), Computas (NO), CAM-I, University of Amsterdam (NL), CE Consulting (IT), Silesian University of Technology (PL), Intracom (GR), Virtuelle Fabrik (CH). 6 GROWTH ASSEMBLY NET Duration: 1 Oct 2001 – 31 Aug 2004 The prime aim of the Assembly Net Thematic Network is to establish a well co-ordinated and effective support infrastructure throughout Europe in order to share and exchange the latest developments in Assembly System Applications and Design. The project partners would like to create a network in which existing national and international projects, and available solutions, are linked to urgent industrial needs. Group’s role: -Develop strategies towards distributed assembly networks. - Re-engineering and agile manufacturing topics www.assembly-net.org Total funding: 950 000 euros UNL’s funding: 26 400 euros UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit Partners: 33 partners from 8 countries (Universities, research institutes, users of assembly systems, assembly system providers, and industrial consultancy groups). 7 (-('&$3 "#'#,.(4 /+ 0(-&, Esprit PRODNET II - Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise (Sep 1996-Oct 1999). www.uninova.pt/~prodnet Esprit WATERNET - Knowledge Capture for Advanced Supervision of Water Distribution Networks (Jun 1996-May 1998). INCO SCM+ - Beyond Supply Chain Management in Food Industry (Apr 1996 – Sep 1997). www.uninova.pt/~scm Esprit ESCN - European STEP Centres Network (Nov 1997 – Oct 1999). www.uninova.pt/~escn/ TSER IFC - Further training funds as an impulse for new models of life long training - Integrated Funding Concept (Mar 1999 – Jun 2000). INCO MASSYVE – Multi-Agent Agile Manufacturing Scheduling Systems in Virtual Enterprise Industry (Oct 1997 – Dec 2000). PRAXIS MAGMEC – Sensores de campo magnético para posicionamento e monitorização de corrente em Mecatrónica (Jun 1997 – Mai 2000). E-LEARN – Remote learning through Internet (Nov 1998-Dec 2000). INCO-DC ProSME - Easy-to-Use Procedures for Quality Management tailored for SMEs (Feb 98-Jan 2001) PRAXIS TeleCARE - A Multi-Agent Tele-Supervision System for Elderly Care (Jun 1999-Nov 2001) IST FETISH-ETF - Federated European Tourism Information System Harmonization (Jan 2000-Apr 2002) IFIP COVE - CO-operation infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises and electronic business (Jul 2000 – Jun 2002. www.uninova.pt/~cove IST VOmap - Roadmap design for collaborative virtual organizations in dynamic business ecosystems (Jul 2003 – Jun 2003). www.uninova.pt/~vomap IST CE-NET II - Concurrent Enterprise Network of Excellence (Jan 2001 – Aug 2003). www.ce-net.org Activities in perspective: FlexSys VOSTER PRODNET II CIMIS.net SCM+ Prodnet I ECOLEAD COVE FETISH MASSYVE VOmap ProSME THINKcreative ESCN EPDT B-Learn TeleCARE EUPASS WATERNET TeleCARE CIM - CASE -Net Assembly MAGMEC SUSI - CIM PrintSIM PostPressSim E- LEARN IFC Portugal-Hungary AIR CE -NET 2 ICIMS- NOE ACOMAS- TN 1995 1996 1997 1998 BASYS’95 BASYS’96 ISIP’97 BASYS’98 Project leader 1999 PRO-VE’99 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 PRO-VE’02 PRO-VE’03 PRO-VE’04 BASYS 2000 BASYS‘04 PRO-VE 2000 BASYS‘02 TELECARE’04 Intern. Project National Project The group was one of the key founders of the following international conference series: - BASYS – IFIP/IEEE International Conference on IT for Balanced Automation Systems - PRO-VE – IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises Steering Committee chairman of both conferences series: L.M. Camarinha-Matos UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 8 5 6+'%$, L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - TeleCARE: Collaborative virtual elderly care support communities, The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp 73-86, ISSN 1479-649X, London, Apr 2004. O. Castolo, F. Ferrada, L.M. Camarinha-Matos - TeleCARE Time Bank: A virtual community for elderly care supported by mobile agents, The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp 119-133, ISSN 1479-649X, London, Apr 2004 L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - A multi-agent based infrastructure to support virtual communities in elderly care, Int. J. Networking and Virtual Organisations, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2004, pp.246–266, ISSN 1470-9503. L. M. Camarinha Matos - Tecnologia na assistência à terceira idade, Revista ROBÓTICA, Nº 55, 2º Trim. 2004, pp. 4-5. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Collaborative networks: A new scientific discipline, accepted to J. Intelligent Manufacturing, (to appear in 2005). '"(+('-(, L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh - TeleCARE: Collaborative virtual elderly support communities, in Proceedings of TELECARE 2004 – Int. Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care, 13 Apr 2004, Porto, Portugal, INSTICC Press, pp 1-12, ISBN 972-8865-10-4. O. Castolo, F. Ferrada, L. M. Camarinha-Matos - TeleCARE Time Bank: A Virtual Community supported by mobile agents, in Proceedings of TELECARE 2004 – Int. Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care, 13 Apr 2004, Porto, Portugal, INSTICC Press, pp 13-26, ISBN 972-8865-10-4. L. M. Camarinha-Matos, J. Rosas, A. Oliveira - A mobile agents platform for telecare and teleassistance, in Proceedings of TELECARE 2004 – Int. Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care, 13 Apr 2004, Porto, Portugal, INSTICC Press, pp 37-48, ISBN 972-8865-10-4. L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - The emerging discipline of collaborative networks, in Proceedings of PRO-VE’04 – Virtual Enterprises and Collaborative Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-8138-3, pp 3-16, 23-26 Aug 2004. L. M. Camarinha-Matos, T. Cardoso - Education on Virtual Organizations: An experience at UNL, in Proceedings of PRO-VE’04 – Virtual Enterprises and Collaborative Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-8138-3, pp 579-588, 23-26 Aug 2004. J. Barata, L. M. Camarinha-Matos - A methodology for shopfloor reengineering based on multiagents, in Proceedings of BASYS’04 - Emerging Solutions for Future Manufacturing Systems, Springer, ISBN 0-387-22828-4, IFIP Vol. 159, pp. 117-128, Sept 2004. O. Castolo, L. M. Camarinha-Matos - Reliable communications for mobile agents – the TeleCARE solution, in Proceedings of BASYS’04 - Emerging Solutions for Future Manufacturing Systems, Springer, ISBN 0-387-22828-4, IFIP Vol. 159, pp. 147-160, Set 2004. L. M. Camarinha-Matos, A. Abreu - A contribution to understand collaboration benefits, in Proceedings of BASYS’04 - Emerging Solutions for Future Manufacturing Systems, Springer, ISBN 0-387-22828-4, IFIP Vol. 159, pp. 287-298, Sept 2004. Alsterman, H., Barata, J., & Onori, M. Evolvable Assembly Systems Platforms: Opportunities and Requirements. In R. Molfino (Ed.), Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping (Vol. 1, pp. 18-23). Genova: IMG' 2004. UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 9 Barata, J., Onori, M. A New Shop Floor Approach For Agile Assembly Systems. In M. Taisch & E. Filos & P. Garello & K. Lewis & M. Montorio (Eds.), Global Challenges in Manufacturing - IMS International Forum 2004 (Vol. 1, pp. 349-354). Milano: IMS Forum. 2 -.%/&(+, L.M. Camarinha-Matos, E. Banahan, J. Sousa, F. Sturm, H. Afsarmanesh, J. Barata, J. Playfoot, V. Tschammer - Emerging collaborative forms, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 2.4, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 14020-7823-4, 2004. L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Targeting major new trends, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 3.2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. H. Afsarmanesh, V. Marik, L.M. Camarinha-Matos - Challenges of collaborative networks in Europe, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 3.3, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Support infrastructures for new collaborative forms, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 5.2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, V. Tschammer, H. Afsarmanesh - On emerging technologies for VO, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 5.4, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Emerging behavior in complex collaborative networks, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 6.2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Formal modeling methods for collaborative networks, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 6.3, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - A roadmapping methodology for strategic research on VO, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 7.1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, H. Loeh, F. Sturm, M. Ollus - A strategic roadmap for advanced virtual organizations, in Collaborative Networked Organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, cap. 7.2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7823-4, 2004. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Brief historical perspective for virtual organizations, in Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices, cap. 1.1, Springer, ISBN 0-387-23755-0, Jan 2005. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Collaborative networks: A new scientific discipline, in Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices, cap. 1.6, Springer, ISBN 0-387-23755-0, Jan 2005. L.M. Camarinha-Matos - ICT Infrastructures for VO, in Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices, cap. 2.1, Springer, ISBN 0-387-23755-0, Jan 2005. E. Kaletas, H. Afsarmanesh, M. Anastasiou, L.M. Camarinha-Matos - Emerging technologies and standards, in Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices, cap. 2.2, Springer, ISBN 0-387-237550, Jan 2005. ! 2, (4#&# ' Collaborative networked organizations – A research agenda for emerging business models, (L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, Editors), 1st Print: Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-40207823-4, Mar 2004, 2nd Print: Springer, Nov 2004. Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 10 in Elderly Care, (L.M. Camarinha-Matos, Editor), Proceedings of TELECARE 2004 (in conjunction with ICEIS 2004), 13 Abr 2004, Porto, Portugal, INSTICC Press. ISBN 972-8865-10-4. Virtual Enterprises and Collaborative Networks, (L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Editor), Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-8138-3, IFIP Vol. 149, Ago 2004. Emerging Solutions for Future Manufacturing Systems, (L.M. Camarinha-Matos, Editor), Springer, ISBN 0-387-22828-4, IFIP Vol. 159, Sep 2004. Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices, (L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, M. Ollus, Editors), Springer, ISBN 0-387-23755-0, Jan 2005. 7 .(,#, José Barata - Coalition based approach for shop floor agility – A multiagent approach, PhD Thesis, New University of Lisbon, Feb 2004. 8 5 6+'%$(4#&# ' 9,/(-#%$#,,6(,: International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations (Inderscience), Special issue on Infrastructures for New Virtual Organisations, Vol. 2, N. 3, Oct 2004. L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh (Guest editors). ; (1 ,$(&&(+ THINKcreative News – The Newsletter of the IST THINKcreative project (www.thinkcreative.org): Issue 6: Feb 2004. UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 11 +<%'#=%&# ' The following events were organized by the group in 2004: ECOLEAD Workshop on Trust building models and Self-organizing systems, Antwerp, Belgium, 1415 Oct 2004. .%#+#'< Luis M. Camarinha-Matos: Program Committee Chairman of TELECARE 2004 – 1st International Workshop on Tele-care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care, Porto, Portugal, 13 Apr 2004. Steering Committee and Program Committee Chairman of PRO-VE’04 - 5th IFIP Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises, Toulouse, France, 23-26 Aug 2004. Steering Committee and Program Committee Chairman of BASYS’04 - 6th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing and Services, Vienna, Austria, 27-29 Sept 2004. %+&#-#/%&# ' #' -#('&#"#- > ) ) #&&((, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos: IPAS 2004 – 2nd International Precision Assembly Seminar, Bad Hofgastein, Austria, 12-13 Feb 2004. ICEIS 2004 – 6th Int. Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, Portugal, 14-17 Apr 2004. ABS 2004 - Agent-Based Simulation 5 - 5th International Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation, Lisboa, Portugal, 3-5 May 2004. CSCWD 2004 – 8th Int. Conference on CSCW in Design, 26-28 May 2004, Xiamen, China. COA 2004 – 7th IFAC Symposium on Cost Oriented Automation, Gatineau/Ottawa, Canada, 7-9 Jun 2004. ICE 2004 - Int. Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, Sevilla, Spain, 14-16 Jun 2004. WCC 2004 – 18th IFIP World Computer Congress, Toulouse, France, 22-27 Aug 2003. ICINCO 2004 – 1st Int. Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Setúbal, Portugal, 25-28 Aug 2004. DEXA 2004 - 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 30 Aug- 3 Sept 2004, Zaragoza, Spain. INES’04 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 12 AIS’04 – 2004 AI, Simulation and Planning, Jeju Island, Korea, 4-6 Oct 2004. ICEIMT' 04 – IFIP International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modelling Technology, Toronto, Canada, 9-11 Oct 2004. DISM’04 – 7th International Conference on Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing 2004, 9-11 Oct 2004, Toronto, Canada. ICMA 2004 – International Conference on Manufacturing Automation, Wuhan, China, 26-29 Oct 2004. José Barata: BASYS’04 - 6th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing and Services, Vienna, Austria, 27-29 Sept 2004. PRO-VE’04 - 5th IFIP Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises, Toulouse, France, 23-26 Aug 2004. PDT 2004 – Product Data Technology Europe, Stockholm, Sweden, 18-20 Oct 2004. %+&#-#/%&# ' #' '"(+('-(, %'4 ?('&, Group members participated in the following events: TELECARE 2004 / ICEIS 2004 – Int. Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care, 13 Apr 2004, Porto, Portugal. o Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, O. Castolo, F. Ferrada. I. Oliveira. ICE’04 -10th IFIP Int. Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, Sevilla, Spain, 14-16 Jun 2004. o Luis M. Camarinha-Matos PRO-VE’04 -5th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, Toulouse, France, 23-26 Aug 2004. o Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, T. Cardoso BASYS’04 - 6th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing and Services, Vienna, Austria, 27-29 Sept 2004. o Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, J. Barata, O. Castolo, António Abreu IPAS’2004 – International Precision Assembly Seminar, BadHofGastein, Austria, 11-13 Feb 2004. o J. Barata IMS’2004 – International IMS Forum – Global Challenges in Manufacturing, Cernobbio, Italy, 17-19 May 2004. o J. Barata IMG’2004 – International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping, Genova, Italy, 1-2 July 2004. o ! J. Barata +(,('&%&# ', #' () #'%+, %'4 %'($, In addition to the conference presentations mentioned above, the following talk (without paper) was given: Seminar organised at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Department of Production Systems – Assembly Division in Stockholm, A New Shop Floor Approach for Agile Assembly Systems, José Barata, Stockholm, Sweden, 6th May 2004. UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 13 ! ! -%4() #- ) %'%<() ('& L.M. Camarinha-Matos: Member of the Scientific Council of FCT/UNL. Member of the Council of the Electrical Engineering Department. Branch counselor of the IEEE Student Branch at UNL. Member of the “International Scientific Advisory Board” of INESC-Porto José Barata: ! Member of the Scientific Council of FCT/UNL. Member of the Council of the Electrical Engineering Department. + 0(-&/+ / ,%$, (?%$6%&# ' Evaluation of project proposals submitted to the following programs: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos: CRUP (Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities), Integrated Actions Program, Jul 2004. Agência de Inovação, Program IDEAS, Jun-Jul 2004. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, University Grants Committee, Jan/Mar 2004. ! ?%$6%&# ' * %+4, "%-%4() #- (@%) , L.M. Camarinha-Matos: PhD Thesis defense: Member of the evaluation board for the PhD exam and supervisor of José Barata de Oliveira [Coalition based approach for shop floor agility – A multiagent approach], FCT/New University of Lisbon, 5 Feb 2004. Member of the evaluation board for the PhD exam (main examiner) of Paulo António da Silva Ávila [Modelo rigoroso de selecção de recursos para o projecto de empresas ágeis / virtuais para produtos complexos], University of Minho, 9 Jul 2004. Member of the evaluation board for the PhD exam of Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitão [An agile and adaptive holonic architecture for manufacturing control], University of Porto / FEUP, 13 Jul 2004. Member of the evaluation board for the PhD exam (main examiner) of Nuno Paulo Correia Afonso Moreira [Empresa virtual baseada em sistemas produtivos autónomos], University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 19 Jul 2004. Member of the evaluation board for the PhD exam of Pedro Alexandre Costa Sousa [Um enquadramento para a catalogação automática de dados – Uma abordagem multiagentes], FCT/New University of Lisbon, 29 Nov 2004. Habilitation (“Agregação) exam: Evaluation panel for habilitation exam on Mechanical Engineering (Dr. Joaquim Norberto Pires da Silva), University of Coimbra, 2004. UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 14 José Barata: . ! PhD Thesis defense: Member of the evaluation board for the PhD exam (main examiner - Opponent) of Henric Alsterman [Strategic Issues for Achieving Sustainable Automatic Assembly – Towards Evolvable Assembly Systems], Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Stockholm, 7th May 2004. () *(+,.#/ #' /+ "(,,# '%$%,, -#%&# ', L. M. Camarinha-Matos: IFIP TC5 (national representative), WG5.3, WG5.5 (chairman and founder), WG6.11, WG5.7. IEEE Robotics & Automation, Computer Society APPIA – Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence Portuguese Association of Engineers IFAC TC 4.4 Cost Oriented Automation J. Barata Oliveira: IEEE – Computer, Robotics & Automation, Systems Man & Cybernetics ACM – Association for Computing Machinery AAAI – American Association of Artificial Intelligence ASME – American Association of Mechanical Engineers APSIOT – Portuguese Association for Industrial Sociology, Organisations, and Labour António Abreu: João Rosas: !! Portuguese Association of Engineers Portuguese Association of Engineers (%-.#'< %-&#?#&#(, The group was responsible for the following teaching activities: Electrical and Computers Engineering Course (UNL): -Data Modeling in Engineering -Real Time Systems -Robotics -Intelligent Supervision -Systems Integration -Multimedia Information Systems -Virtual Enterprises -Telerobotics and Autonomous Systems -Project of Robotics and CIM MSc in Electrical and Computers Engineering (UNL): -Distributed Manufacturing Systems !7 #,#& +, • Prof. Mauro Onori, The Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden • Dr. Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Universityof Amsterdam, Netherlands. • Luis Osório, ISEL, Portugal • Vitor Santos, Microsoft, Portugal • Edmilson Klen, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. • Alexandra Pereira Klen, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. UNL + Uninova: CoNIM unit 15