WFCS'2000 General Co-Chairmen Eduardo Tovar Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4000-072 Porto, Portugal Phone: (+351)228340529 Fax: (+351)228321159 E-mail: emt@dei.isep.ipp.pt Richard Zurawski Industrial and Societal Automation Corporation 780 Oak Grove Road, Suite D108 Concord, CA, 94518, U.S.A. Phone: (+1.925)6099118 Fax: (+1.925)6825517 E-mail: zurawski@jsisa.com WFCS'2000 Steering Committee J-D.Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Josep Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain Guy Juanole, LAAS, Toulouse, France Richard Zurawski, JSISA, Concord, USA WFCS'2000 Program Co-Chairmen Guy Juanole, LAAS, Toulouse, France Francisco Vasques, FEUP, Porto, Portugal WFCS'2000 WIP Co-Chairmen L. Almeida, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal T. Sauter, TU Wien, Austria WFCS'2000 Industry Liaison Co-Chairmen J. Fonseca, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal E. Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Portugal WFCS'2000 Organizing Committee Finance: Luís Ferreira, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Publications: Miguel Pinho, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Publicity: Filipe Pacheco, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Registration: Mário Alves, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Local Arrangements: Berta Batista, ISEP-IPP, Portugal Secretariat: Ana Costa, ISEP-IPP, Portugal

Program Committee L. Almeida, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal I. Bate, Univ. of York, UK G. Buttazzo, Univ. Pavia, Italy S. Cavalieri, Univ. of Catania, Italy F. Cottet, ENSMA, Poitiers, France J. Cooling, Univ. of Loughborough, UK J-D. Decotignie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland D. Dietrich, TU Wien, Austria G. Fohler, Mälardalen Univ., Sweden J. Fuertes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain J-C. Gregoire, INRS-Telecom, Canada W. Halang, FernUniversität, Germany H. Hansson, Mälardalen Univ., Sweden Z. Hanzalek, CTU, Prague, Czech Rep. H. Kopetz, TU Wien, Austria S. Koubias, Univ. Patras, Greece W. H. Kwon, SNU, Seoul, S. Korea Z. Mammeri, UPS, Toulouse, France M. Marcos, UPV, Bilbao, Spain R. Montes, CINVESTA, Guadalajara, Mexico P. Neumann, IFAK, Barleben, Germany H. S. Park, Kangwon Univ., S. Korea C. Pereira, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil J. Santos, Univ. del Sur, Argentina T. Sauter, TU Wien, Austria V. Sempere, UPV, Valencia, Spain K. Shin, Univ. of Michigan, USA J.P. Thomesse, INPL, Nancy, France E. Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Porto, Portugal R. Tuokko, Tempere University, Finland A. Valenzano, Politecnico de Torino, Italy P. Verissimo, FCUL, Lisbon, Portugal M. Wollschlaeger, U. Magdeburg, Germany R. Zurawsky, JSISA, Concord, USA