Call for Papers

The aim of the international MITIP2009 conference is to share knowledge on the role of ICT in the modern industrial enterprise. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Business processes in industrial enterprises

• Design and optimization of production systems
• Analysis and design of production systems
• Stochastic modeling of production systems
• Reconfiguration of manufacturing systems
• Buffer allocation
• Facility design
• Management and optimization of supply chain networks
• Production planning and control
• Advanced inventory policies and warehouse management
• Performance management
• Outsourcing decision supporting frameworks
• Innovative and advanced distribution management
• Production and logistics networks management
• Distributed manufacturing network
• Maintenance and Asset Lifecycle Management
• Asset life cycle management strategies and practices
• Asset data management, warehousing and mining
• Reliability and maintenance engineering
• Maintenance optimization and decision-making
• Condition monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
• E-maintenance
• Product and Service Life Cycle Management
• Product-service development
• Intelligent products and services
• Service chain management
• Service chain logistics
• Intelligent Transport Systems and Mobility
• Multi-modal transportation management
• Sustainable mobility
• Risk and safety management in transportation
• Advanced freight and fleet management
• Visibility, tracking and tracing
• Supply Chain Risk Management
• Operational risk management
• Enterprise risk management
• Supply chain risk assessment
• Supply chain risk mitigation strategies
• Resilient enterprise
• Uncertainty management

Key technologies for industrial enterprises

• Information Technology for Enterprise 2.0
• ICT enablers
• Web 2.0
• Web applications
• SOA
• Data communication standard
• Knowledge based systems
• Information integration
• Enterprise network management
• Collaboration management and tools
• Virtual enterprises
• Business intelligence
• Workflow management systems
• Information Exchange and RFID applications
• Internet of things
• RFID adoption and implementation frameworks
• Theoretical and technical implementation challenges of RFID
• RFID-based traceability systems in supply chains
• Tracking and tracing of materials and assets using RFID technology
• Costs and risks associated with RFID deployment
• Privacy and security issues with RFID
• Process Modeling and Simulation
• Business process reengineering
• Modeling frameworks
• Business process modeling languages
• Business process simulation
• Logistics modeling and simulation
• Production system modeling and simulation