Honorary Co-Chairmen
Guy Juanole
LAAS-CNRS and Univ. de Paul Sabatier, France
Jean-Pierre Thomesse
Inst. National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France

General Co-Chairmen
Adriano Valenzano
IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Josep M. Fuertes
Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Organizing Committee Co-Chairmen
Richard Zurawski
ISA Group, USA
Thilo Sauter
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Program Committee Co-Chairmen
Gianluca Cena
IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Francisco Vasques
University of Porto, Portugal

Industry Day and Panel Discussion Co-Chairmen
Stefano Vitturi
IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Martin Wollschlaeger
TU Dresden, Germany

WIP Co-Chairmen
Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti
IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Christer Norström
Mälardalen University, Sweden

Local Organizing Committee
Luca Durante (Chair)
IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Enrico Gennaro
ANIPLA-Torino, Italy

IT Management
Marco Cereia
IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Aleksander Malinowski
Bradley University, USA
Claudio Zunino
IEIIT-CNR, Italy

Program Committee
Luís Almeida, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal
Peter Buchholz, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
Dacfey Dzung, ABB, Switzerland
Max Felser, Berne Univ. of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
José Alberto Fonseca, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal
Zdenek Hanzalek, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
Juergen Jasperneite, Lippe und Hoexter Univ., Germany
Klaus Kabitzsch, TU Dresden, Germany
Joerg Kaiser, Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany
Athanasios Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Inst., Greece
Wolfgang Kastner, TU Vienna, Austria
Stavros Koubias, Univ. of Patras, Greece
Vincenzo Liberatore, CWRU, Ohio, USA
Lucia Lo Bello, Univ. of Catania, Italy
Nicolas Navet, INRIA/LORIA, France
Juan Pimentel, Kettering Univ., Michigan, USA
Julián Proenza, Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Victor Sempere, Univ. Politécnica of Valencia, Spain
Françoise Simonot-Lion, LORIA - INPL, Nancy, France
Riccardo Sisto, Politecnico of Torino, Italy
Eduardo Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Porto, Portugal
Yvon Trinquet, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Andreas Willig, TU Berlin, Germany
Takahiro Yakoh, Univ. of Keio, Japan

WFCS Series Steering Committee
J-D. Decotignie, CSEM, Switzerland
D. Dietrich, Technical Univ. of Vienna, Austria
J. Fuertes, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
G. Juanole, LAAS-CNRS, France
C. Norström, Mälardalen University, Sweden
E. Tovar, ISEP-IPP, Porto, Portugal
F. Vasques, University of Porto, Portugal
R. Zurawski, ISA Group, USA (Chair)

WFCS 2006 Advisory Committee
J. Feld, Siemens AG, Germany
A.M. Fong, SIMTech, Singapore
J. Jasperneite, Phoenix Contact, Germany
C.G. Jenkins, PROCES-DATA, UK
H. Kirrmann, ABB, Switzerland
P. Lutz, I.G. SERCOS interface e.V., Germany
R. Nossal, DECOMSYS, Austria
A. Rajnák, Volcano AG., Switzerland
V. Schiffer, Rockwell Automation, Germany

WFCS 2006 Secretariat
Paola Cirio
IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Simona Berardinelli
IEIIT-CNR, Italy