The International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes (ADCONIP 2011)
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, May 23-27, 2011

Scope

The 4th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes (Adconip) will
be held on May 23-27, 2011 in Hangzhou, P.R. China. Adconip is organized every three years.
The first three meetings of Adconip were held in Japan, Korea, and Canada. This symposium has
the objective of gathering researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to
discuss the state of the art in advanced control and their applications in industry.

The emphasis in this symposium will be on the theory and implementation issues and
experiences related to the application of advanced control methods in industry. The main
topics for the meeting include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Adaptive and Learning Systems
* Sensing and Sensor Fusion
* Process Control and Automation
* Signal Processing
* Identification and Estimation
* Intelligent Control
* Health informatics and control applications in the health care industry
* Single and multi-rate techniques
* Controller performance evaluation
* Robotic Systems
* Factory Automation
* Network-based Control
* Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Asset maintenance
* Process optimization
* Supply chain logistics
* Integration of process design and plant-wide control
* Manufacturing Execution System
* Realtime database
* Data reconciliation
* Data mining
* Computer integrated Manufacturing System
* Alarm management and safe process operating systems


Call for Papers and Special Sessions

The International Program Committee invites you to send papers that are no more than 6 pages
long and in English through www.adconip2011.org. Industrial authors are encouraged to send
extended abstracts or summaries of your work that are at least 2 pages and describe the
main contributions of the work. The paper format and submission instruction will be
announced in www.adconip2011.org .
Proposals for special sessions are especially welcome. They should contain the title of the
session, a list of at least 5 speakers and titles of their papers, together with papers
completed according to the above instructions. Please send requests and questions to
adconip2011@csc.zju.edu.cn. Quality papers will be invited to submit for special issues in
Control Engineering Practice, Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, and
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Important Dates

July 15, 2010 Proposals for Special Sessions
July 31, 2010 Receipt of Full Paper or Extended Abstract (for industrial authors)
Oct. 31, 2010 Notification of Final Acceptance
Dec. 31, 2010 Receipt of Final Manuscript