3rd Workshop GRIT : "GRIT is Remote Instrumentation and Telerobotics for the industry, distance learning and collaboratories", to be held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM SIGAPP.fr MEDES 2009, from October 27th to 30th 2009, Lyon, France.

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More info: http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/09/workshops/GRIT09/grit_index.php

Deadlines :
Abstract submission : June 10th, 2009 (max. 30 lines sent by email to christophe.gravier@telecom-st-etienne.fr & M.Auer@cti.ac)
Full paper submission : June 30th, 2009 (Conference submission system : http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/09/guidelines.php)

Abstract:
Real remote control of devices leads to several concepts, depending on the domain it is applied to. When it is govern by industrial issues, it usually refers to remote control of manufacturing systems. For some times, it is also a concern for universities and especially for joint laboratories, which can see the remote control of devices as a tool for the leverage of collaboratories. Of course, open and distance education institutions are also interested in providing remote laboratories to their students, hence need they remote laboratories to bring the laboratory right to the door of the students (?If you can?t come to the lab, the lab comes to you?).
GRIT is a workshop willing to make researchers from these different communities meet around the issue of the remote control of devices through the Internet. Actually, research communities in remote instrumentation and telerobotics are distributed in different research topics, mainly : the industry (extended enterprise), distance learning curriculum (remote laboratories), and distributed and joint research laboratories (also known as ?collaboratories?).


Topics :
GRIT solicits research submissions on all topics related to remote control of devices in distributed systems, including but not limited to :
- Control of manufacturing systems
- Robotics
- Collaboratories
- Interoperability of information systems for the remote control of devices
- Remote laboratories
- Collaborative Remote Laboratories
- HCI of the remote control of devices over the Internet
- 3D Environments for tele-operations
- Diagnostic methods in remote control of manufacturing systems
- Deployment of large scale applications for online engineering
- Building of communities around remote control of devices
- Architectures & Use cases involving remote control of devices
- Security issues for the remote control of devices
- New Ideas and Paradigms for the remote control of devices


Organizers :
- Dr.-Ing Christophe Gravier, TELECOM Saint-Etienne, Universit� Jean Monnet, F-42000 Saint-Etienne, christophe.gravier@telecom-st-etienne.fr
- Pr. Michael E. Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute, University of Applied Science, Fachhochschule Kaernten, Austria, M.Auer@cti.ac.


Important dates :
Abstract submission : June 10th, 2009
Full paper submission : June 30th, 2009
Notification of Paper Acceptance : September 5th, 2009
Camera Ready Papers Due and Registration : September 15, 2009
Workshop dates : one day of October 27-30, 2009
Notification of Extended Papers Acceptance : November 15th, 2009


More info: http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/09/workshops/GRIT09/grit_index.php