The increasing of adoption of methods from computational intelligence, biologically inspired computing,and optimization in engineering discipline such as mechatronics
or production enables the development of a new class of autonomous systems. These systems often posses abilities which are best describe by the phrase
Self-X:Self-Optimization, Self-Coordination, Self-Healing, Self-Repair and many more.

These properties have in common that they shift decision making from humans to the technical systems. This shift has two possible benefits. First, decision made during
the design of the system can be delayed until operation and thus the system is able to react more flexible to different application requirements. Second, the human effort
in managing such systems can be reduced and the corresponding systems are more cost-efficient.This special session is dedicated to this new type of Systems in the area of
mechatronic systems and production systems.

===========================TOPIC AREAS=====================================

Applications of Self-X and Autonomous Control
* Mechatronics
* Robotics
* Vehicles
* Production Systems
* Supply Chain Management

Algorithms and Methods for Self-X and Autonomous Control
* Autonomous Planning and Scheduling
* Agent-Based Systems, Multiagent-System, Holonic Control Systems
* Modelling uncertainty, Optimization and Planning under uncertainty
* Multi-Objective and Multi-Criteria Optimization
* Machine Learning
* Identification of noisy data
* Biologically inspired Methods: Ant-Based Optimization, Artificial Immune Systems, etc.

Platform Technologies for Self-X and Autonomous Control
* Reconfigurable Hardware
* System Software for Self-X and Autonomous Control
* Distributed Control
* Flexible Resource Management in Embedded Systems
* Self-Healing Embedded Systems

Design Methodologies
* Reference Processes for Product Design
* Formal Verification
* System Validation
* Design Methodologies for safe and reliable systems
* Solution Pattern for Self-X and Autonomous Control

======================PAPER SUBMISSION=======================================
Prospective participants are requested to electrically submit full papers of their work
(6 pages) following the instructions available on the INDIN 2010 website:
http //indin2010 ist osaka ac jp/inde html
Please submit your Full Paper until January 15, 2010 on
http://ieee ies org/submit/indin10/

IMPORTANT DATES
January 15, 2010 Deadline for Special Session Papers
February 16, 2010 Acceptance Notification
April 20, 2010 Final papers for publication
July 13-16, 2010,8th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics


=====================PROGRAMM COMMITEE===================================
Dangelmaier, Wilhelm Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany
De Jong, Steven Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Donoth, Jörg Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany
Frank, Ursula Beckhoff Automation, Germany
Freudenberg, Reinhard Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering of RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Gans, Jan Erik Daimler AG, Germany
Gausemeier, Jürgen Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany
Hahn, Martin iXtronics GmbH, Germany
Hirsch, Martin Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems
Engineering ISST, Germany
Kaiser, Ingo Miele & Cie. KG, Germany
Klöpper, Benjamin DAAD Researcher, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
Low, Cheng Yee Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Mahajan, Kiran R. Toyota Motor Company, Belgium
Ober-Blöbaum, Sina University of Paderborn, Germany
Porrmann, Mario Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany
Rammig, Franz Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Cooperative Computing &
Communication Laboratory (C-LAB), Germany
Sachenbacher, Martin TU München, Germany
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For further information about Self-X see http://wwwhni.uni-paderborn.de/self-x-inengineering/
or contact the special session organizers:

Jörg Donoth
Heinz Nixdorf Institute,
University of Paderborn,
Germany
E-Mail: joerg.donoth@hni.uni-paderborn.de
Phone: +49 5251 606260

Dr. Benjamin Klöpper
DAAD Researcher
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo,
Japan
E-Mail: kloepper@nii.ac.jp
Phone: +81 3-4212-2596