Conference Programme

SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 1999

MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 1999

[Saturnia] Plenary Session MA1, Status Reports
Chair: M. Mouat (TRIUMF, Canada), J. Zhao (IHEP, China)
> S. Hunt (PSI, Switzerland) (invited)
Control and Data Acquisition System of the Swiss Light Source
> D. Gurd (LANL, USA) (invited)
Status Report on the SNS Control System
> G. Mornacchi (CERN, Switzerland)
The Dataflow System of the ATLAS DAQ and Event Filter Prototype "-1" Project
> D. Bonnet (Institut de Recherche Subatomique de Strasbourg, France)
Control System of the Silicon Microstrip Layer for the STAR Experiment

[Saturnia] Plenary Session MA1, Status Reports (continued)
Chair: M. Mouat (TRIUMF, Canada), J. Zhao (IHEP, China)
> U. Uwer (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
The Hera-B Slow and Run Control System
> D.R. Myers (CERN, Switzerland)
The LHC Experiments Joint Controls Project

[Saturnia] Plenary Session MB1, Project Engineering and Management
Chair: D. Gurd (LANL, USA), G. Raffi (ESO, Germany)
> K. White (TJNAF, USA)
Software Engineering Management for Productivity and Quality
> G. Filippi (ESO, Germany)
Software Practices Used in the ESO Very Large Telescope Control Software
> R. Ursic (Instrumentation Technologies, Slovenia)
Developing New Products in Half the Time
> R. Muller (BESSY, Germany)
Control System Reliability Requires Careful Software Installation Procedures

[Saturnia] Plenary Session MC1, Selecting and Integrating Industrial Systems in Experimental Physics Controls
Chair: I. Abe (KEK, Japan), G. Baribaud (CERN, Switzerland), R. Rausch (CERN, Switzerland)
> A. Daneels (CERN, Switzerland) (invited)
What is SCADA?
> V. Klinger (DESY, Germany)
A New HERA Cryogenic Control System - Requirements and Objectives
> H. Burckhart (CERN, Switzerland)
Front-end I/O of the ATLAS Detector Control System
> A. Di Bartolomeo (Creative Electronic Systems, Switzerland)
Modular Function Units for Efficient Combination of WFIP Equipment with ATM Networking

[Saturnia] Plenary Session MD1, Software: Configuration and Databases
Chair: R. Muller (BESSY, Germany), R. Tanaka (SPRING-8, Japan)
> H. Shoaee (SLAC, USA) (invited)
The Role of a Central Database for Configuration Management
> G. Neu (Max-Planck-Inst., Germany)
Configuration Environment for the ASDEX Upgrade Control System
> N. Kanaya (KEK, Japan)
Diagnostic System Using JAVA Applet and Database for High Energy Accelerators
> T. Birke (BESSY, Germany)
Logging of Supervisory Data at BESSY
> A. Yamashita (SPRING-8, Japan)
Data Archiving and Retrieval for SPring-8 Accelerator Complex

[Oceania] Satellite Meeting EPCS Board Meeting
Chair: G. Baribaud (CERN, Switzerland)

[Saturnia] Tutorial Use Cases for Requirements Capture and Tracing (G. Chiozzi (ESO, Germany))
Chair: M. Mouat (TRIUMF, Canada)

TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER 1999

[Oceania] Parallel Session TA1, Process Tuning and Feedback Systems
Chair: J. Carwardine (ANL, USA), T. Katoh (KEK, Japan), I.S. Ko (PAL-POSTECH, Korea), G. Raupp (Max-Planck-Inst., Germany)
> J. Lister (CRPP-EPFEL, Switzerland) (invited)
The Control of Modern Tokamaks
> J. Safranek (SLAC, USA) (invited)
Orbit Control at Synchrotron Light Sources
> R. Dickson (TJNAF, USA)
Fast Feedback System for Energy and Beam Stabilization
> K. Furukawa (KEK, Japan)
Energy Feedback Systems at KEKB Injector Linac

[Saturnia] Parallel Session TA2, Selecting and Integrating Industrial Systems in Experimental Physics Controls
Chair: I. Abe (KEK, Japan), G. Baribaud (CERN, Switzerland), R. Rausch (CERN, Switzerland)
> W. Salter (CERN, Switzerland)
Selecting and Evaluating SCADA Systems for the Slow Controls of the CERN LHC Detectors
> S. Poulsen (CERN, Switzerland)
An Industrial Control System for the Supervision of the CERN Electrical Distribution Network
> H. Kleines (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
The Slow Control System of the Atomic Beam Source at ANKE/COSY - An Industrial Approach Based on WinCC and S7 PLCs
> H. Milcent (CERN, Switzerland)
Applying Industrial Solutions to the Controls of Experiments

[Saturnia] Tutorial Network Technology (G. Montessoro (Univ. of Udine, Italy))
Chair: R. Rausch (CERN, Switzerland)

[Saturnia] Tutorial Introduction to Java (J.P. Forestier (Societe OSYX, France))
Chair: N. Kanaya (KEK, Japan)

[Main Hall Gallery] Poster Session TC1P
Process Tuning and Feedback Systems
Selecting and Integrating Industrial Systems in Experimental Physics
Controls
Status Reports

[Saturnia] Plenary Session TD1, Evolution of a Control System:
Maintenance, Upgrading, Re-Engineering
Chair: B. Craft (CAMD, USA), W. Busse (HMI, Germany)
> P. Charpentier (CERN, Switzerland) (invited)
The Evolution of the DELPHI Experiment Control System, or How to Survive Ten Years of Running
> H. Rarback (SLAC, USA)
Old Wine in New Bottles - The SPEAR Control System Upgrade
> R. Juras (ORNL, USA)
Migration of 1970s Minicomputer Controls to Modern Toolkit Software
> J. Lewis (CERN, Switzerland)
Central Beam and Cycle Management of the CERN LHC Injector Chain

[Oceania] Satellite Meeting Trends in Control Systems of Astronomical Telescopes
Chair: G. Raffi (ESO, Germany)

WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1999

[Oceania] Parallel Session WA1, Evolution of a Control System: Maintenance, Upgrading, Re-Engineering
Chair: B. Craft (CAMD, USA), W. Busse (HMI, Germany)
> K. White (TJNAF, USA) (invited)
The Evolution of Jefferson Lab’s Control System
> A. Rovelli (INFN/LNS, Italy)
Experiencing Windows NT for Accelerator Control Systems
> A. Rizzo (DEES Catania Univ., Italy)
An Innovative Intelligent System for Fault Detection in Tokamak Machines
> I. Valova (Institute of Control and Systems Research, Bulgaria)
Multi - Agent System for Control, Diagnostic and Monitoring

[Saturnia] Parallel Session WA2, Software: Distributed Computing Software
Chair: M. Clausen (DESY, Germany), W. Watson (TJNAF, USA)
> A. Goetz (ESRF, France) (invited)
TANGO - An Object Oriented Control System Based on CORBA
> J. van Zeijts (BNL, USA)
CDEV Generic Servers for RHIC Commissioning and Operations
> N. Kanaya (KEK, Japan)
Accessing Remote Equipment as Distributed Remote Objects through the Computer Network Using Java Remote Method Invocation
> J.A. Rodríguez-Vázquez (TCPSI, Spain)
Web-based Distributed Systems for Collaborative Remote Experiments

[Saturnia] Tutorial Introduction to OPC (OLE for Process Control) (F. Iwanitz (Softing GmbH, Germany))
Chair: W. Busse (HMI, Germany)

[Oceania] Satellite Meeting, ISAC Meeting
Chair: D. Bulfone (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy), A. Daneels (CERN, Switzerland)

[Saturnia] Plenary Session WC1, Process Tuning and Feedback Systems
Chair: J. Carwardine (ANL, USA), T. Katoh (KEK, Japan), I.S. Ko (PAL-POSTECH, Korea), G. Raupp (Max-Planck-Inst., Germany)
> T. Shea (BNL, USA) (invited)
Bunch-by-bunch Instability Feedback Systems
> D. Teytelman (SLAC, USA)
Architecture and Technology of 500 Msample/s Feedback Systems for Control of Coupled-bunch Instabilities
> M. Lonza (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
Digital Processing Electronics for the ELETTRA Transverse Multi-bunch Feedback System
> I. Ursu (Elie Carafoli National Institute of Aerospace Research, Romania)
Positioning Algorithms in the NOTTE Experiment

[Saturnia] Plenary Session WD1, Software: Object Oriented Technologies
Chair: N. Kanaya (KEK, Japan), W.-D. Klotz (ESRF, France)
> C. Scafuri (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy) (invited)
The ELETTRA Object-Oriented Framework for High Level Software Development
> M. Parlione (IASI, Italy)
Inheritance in Distributed Environment
> F. DiMaio (CERN, Switzerland)
The CERN PS/SL Java Application Programming Interface
> J. Cuperus (CERN, Switzerland)
A Directory Service for the CERN PS/SL Java Programming Interface
> S. Hunt (PSI, Switzerland)
Controls through Pictures - Graphical Tools for Building Control System Software

THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER 1999

FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER 1999

[Saturnia] Plenary Session FA1, Software: Distributed Computing Software
Chair: M. Clausen (DESY, Germany), W. Watson (TJNAF, USA)
> J. Farthing (JET, UK) (invited)
Technical Preparations for Remote Participation at JET
> M. Peryt (CERN, Switzerland)
Generic Repository and Search Engine for LHC Equipment Tests Data
> L. Dalesio (LANL, USA)
EPICS Directions to Accommodate Large Projects and Incorporate New Technology
> C. Gaspar (CERN, Switzerland)
An Architecture and a Framework for the Design and Implementation of Large Control Systems

[Saturnia] Closing Session
> G. Raffi (ESO, Germany)
Technical Summary
> G. Baribaud (CERN, Switzerland)
Speech by Chairman of EPCS
> Poster Prize Awards
> Speech by Representative of the Organizers of ICALEPCS 2001
> Closing Address by D. Bulfone and A. Daneels, Co-Chairmen of ICALEPCS'99

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