CALL FOR PAPERS

5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2008

web site: http://www.icinco.org

May 11 - 15, 2008
Funchal, Madeira - Portugal

Co-sponsored by IFAC
In cooperation with AAAI

Co-organized by INSTICC and University of Madeira

Proceedings indexed by: ISI Proceedings, INSPEC and DBLP

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Dear Colleague,

The International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics Committee cordially invites you to participate in the ICINCO-2008 Conference, to be held in Funchal, Madeira - Portugal. ICINCO is currently on its 5th edition and it is already a world-class conference and a top reference in its area, where prestigious researchers and invited keynote speakers come to present their work (http://www.icinco.org/Previous_Invited_Speakers.htm).

The deadline for paper submission is November 20. You may check the conference web site (http://www.icinco.org) for further details. Below, you will find some information about dates and conference areas.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer.

We are also inviting the proposal of Special Sessions (see http://www.icinco.org/Special_Sessions.htm) and Workshops (see http://www.icinco.org/Workshops.htm).

Looking forward to receiving you paper submission next November. Don't hesitate contacting me should you have any questions.


Best regards,
Marina Carvalho
ICINCO Secretariat

Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq.
2910-595 Setúbal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5435
Email: secretariat@icinco.org
Web: http://www.icinco.org


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IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Paper Submission: November 20, 2007
Authors Notification: January 25, 2008
Final Paper Submission and Registration: February 11, 2008


CONFERENCE AREAS:
1. INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND OPTIMIZATION
Decision support systems
Distributed control systems
Expert systems for industry
Intelligent fault detection and identification
Knowledge-based systems applications
Planning and Scheduling
Machine learning in control applications
Hybrid learning systems
Mechatronic systems
Neural networks based control systems
Optimization algorithms
Software agents for intelligent control systems
Soft computing
Fuzzy control
Genetic algorithms
Evolutionary computation and control

2. ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
Robot design, development and control
Human-robots interfaces
Network robotics
Mobile robots and autonomous systems
Human augmentation and shared control
Cybernetics
Space and underwater robots
Intelligent transportation technologies and systems
Vehicle control applications
Telerobotics and Teleoperation
Industrial networks and automation
Intelligent warehouses
Modeling, simulation and architectures
Vision, recognition and reconstruction
Virtual Reality
Image processing
Surveillance
Control and supervision systems
Web-based control
Autonomous agents
Petri nets (system design/verification with nets, protocols and networks)
Reasoning about action for intelligent robots
Natural language dialogue with robots

3. SIGNAL PROCESSING, SYSTEMS MODELING and CONTROL
Speech recognition
Signal reconstruction
Computer and microprocessor-based control
Hierarchical control
Instrumentation networks and software
Field-buses
Real-time systems control
Environmental monitoring and control
Time series and system modeling
Time-frequency analysis
Feature extraction
Information-based models for control
Discrete event systems
Hybrid dynamical systems
System identification
Adaptive signal processing and control
Nonlinear signals and systems
Optimization problems in signal processing
Change detection problems


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Miguel Ayala Botto, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
- Peter Simon Sapaty , Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
(list not yet complete)


WORKSHOPS:
(Full paper submission deadline: February 4, 2008)
- Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS)
(http://www.icinco.org/MARS.htm)
- Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP)
(http://www.icinco.org/ANNIIP.htm)
- Intelligent Vehicle Control Systems (IVCS)
(http://www.icinco.org/IVCS.htm)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Available at http://www.icinco.org/Program_Committee.htm