Recently, APMS successfully took place in Washington (USA, 2005), Wroclaw (Poland, 2006), Linköping (Sweden, 2007), Espoo (Finland, 2008), Bordeaux (France, 2009) and Cernobbio (Italy, 2010).
APMS 2011 will take place in Stavanger (Norway), 26-28 September 2011. In addition to a scientific international conference, this event will also be:
- a Doctoral Workshop (23-24 September 2011),
- the opportunity to organize technical and project meetings around the event , and
- the place to meet IFIP WG 5.7 members and experts in Production Management Systems from all over the world.
Papers will be blind peer-reviewed. Accepted papers of registered participants (see registration rules) will be included in the Conference proceedings (CD with ISBN). Then, presented papers will be included in the Conference post-proceedings (book) published by Springer in the series called "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology" (IFIP AICT).
Authors will be asked to improve their final paper to be included in the Springer book after the Conference, in order to take care of the actual suggestions coming from the audience. A copy of the published book (edited by Springer) will be sent to the paying attendees.
The conference is organized by: University of Stavanger (UIS). With support by the Innovation Centre at University of Stavanger,
Centre for industrial Asset Management (CIAM) at University of Stavanger, University college of Stord Haugesund (HSH), and the
Stavanger Convention Bureau of the Municipality of Stavanger.


