Third International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement: AECIA'2016

November 21-23, 2016, Marrakesh, Morrocco

http://www.aecia.org/

The aim of the Third International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement is to bring together the foremost experts as well as excellent young researchers from Africa, Europe and the rest of the world to disseminate latest results from various fields of engineering, information and communication technologies. AECIA 2016 will be held in Marrakesh, Morrocco.
The AECIA 2016 organizing committee is inviting the submission of papers that present high quality, original and unpublished work. All submissions will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by multiple reviewers. Proceedings of AECIA 2016 will be published in Springer series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. It will be indexed by Thomson ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP. Extended versions of the best papers presented at this conference will be considered for publication in a Special Issues of internationally recognized journals.

Topics of Interest

The scope of AECIA 2016 includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

Automation System

Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering
Complex Systems and Intelligent Robots
Computational Intelligence and Applications
Industrial Automation and Online Monitoring
Intelligent Automation and Manufacturing
Intelligent Control Theory and Applications
Intelligent Management and Decision Making
Mechanical Engineering and Automation
Modeling, Identification, and Fault Diagnosis
Navigation Control Theory and Applications
Robotics, Service and Medical Robotics and application
Human-computer interaction

Intelligent Techniques and Algorithms

Soft Computing for Modeling, Control, and Optimization
Bio-inspired Systems
Fuzzy Control
Artificial Neural Networks
Software Agent Systems and Architectures
Information Fusion
Rough Sets
Bayesian Networks
Fuzzy Image Processing
Support Vector Machines
Granular Computing
Pattern Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics

ICT Applications in Engineering

CAD/CAM/CIM and other Simulations
Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering
E-learning
Electrical power Engineering and Energy Technology
Renewable Energy, Nanotechnology
Production Planning and Control
Decision Analysis/Decision Theory and Method
Quality Control and Management
Supply Chain Management
Geotechnical Engineering
Road and Transport Engineering
Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering
Process design, modeling, simulation and optimization
Environmental Engineering & Science
Service improvement, Resource utilization, Fault diagnosis
Business Information Systems
Industrial Applications for Text Processing
Robotics, RFID

Control, Optimization, and Processing

Information Hiding
Knowledge-Based Systems
Information Retrieval and Integration
Intelligent Control and Optimization
Multimedia Sensing and Sensory Systems
Watermarking Methods and Applications
Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
Signal Control (wired & wireless)
Control Theory and Control Engineering
Social Networking
Web Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Intelligent Control and Optimization
Systems Engineering and Engineering Optimization

Conference Chairs

Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA
Václav Snášel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Adel M. Alimi, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelkrim Haqiq, FST, Hassan 1st University, Settat, Morocco

Program Chairs

Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt
Chokri Ben Amar, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Hajar Mousannif, Cadi Ayyad University, Morroco

Publicity Co-Chairs

Jan Platos, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Habib M. Kammoun, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Pavel Kromer, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Khmaies Ouahada, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

International Program Committee (tentative)

Heba Abdel-Atty, PortSaed University, Egypt
Mohamed Abdel-Azim, Mansoura University, Egypt
Janos Abonyi, University of Pannonia, Hungary
Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA
Ahmed Afifi, Menoufia University, Egypt
Muhanned Alfarras, Gulf university, Bahrajn
Ahmed Ali, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Carlos Henggeler Antunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Chaouki Aouiti, REGIM-Lab., Research Groups on Intelligent Machines, Tunisia
Eshetie Berhan, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT), Ethiopia
Birhanu Beshah, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT), Ethiopia
João P. S. Catalão, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Hilmi Berk Celikoglu, Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey
Mohammed Chadli, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France
Jiri Dvorsky, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Nashwa El-Bendary, SRGE (Scientific Research Group in Egypt), Egypt
Eid Emary, Cairo University, Egypt
Tarek Gaber, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt
Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Konrad Jackowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
David Jezek, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Habib M. Kammoun, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abeer Khalil, Qassim Private Colleges, Saudi Arabia
Daniel Kitaw, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT), Ethiopia
Jan Kozusznik, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Bartosz Krawczyk, Wroclaw University Of Technology, Poland
Pavel Kromer, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Mohamed Mostafa, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Petr Musilek, University of Alberta, Canada
Santosh Nanda, Eastern Academy of Science and Technology, Bhubneswar, Odisha, India
Eliska Ochodkova, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Cyril Onwubiko, United Kingdom
Rasha Osman, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Khmaies Ouahada, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Ahmed El Oualkadi, ENSA Tangier, Morocco
Nabil Ouddane, ELCOM Ostrava, Czech Republic
Nour Oweis, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Marcin Paprzycki, IBS PAN and WSM, Poland
Jan Platos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Sg Ponnambalam, Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia
Petrica Pop, North University of Baia Mare, Romania
Radu-Emil Precup, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Nizar Rokbani, ISSAT, University of Sousse & Regim-lab, Tunisia
Mohammed Salem, SRGE (Scientific Research Group in Egypt), Egypt
Petr Saloun, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Noura Semary, SRGE (Scientific Research Group in Egypt), Egypt
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Tinus Stander, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Tammo Steenhuis, Cornell University, USA
Svatopluk Stolfa, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Thomas Stuetzle, IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
Theo G. Swart, University of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
Alaa Tharwat, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Juan Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Ivan Zelinka, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Ahmed Zobaa, Brunel University, UK

Important Dates (*** EXTENDED ***)

Submission of special session and tutorial proposals: July 30, 2016
On-line submission of regular and special session papers: August 15, 2016
Acceptance/rejection notification: September 15, 2016
Camera ready and registration: September 30, 2016
Conference Dates: November 21-23, 2016

Paper Submission

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. All questions should be addressed to the PC chairs. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline to the conference website. Manuscripts should be provided according to the guidelines given at the following link were you can find the necessary styles and information: http://www.springer.com/series/11156. (If this link does not work for you, go to http://www.springer.com, search for series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" and follow the link "Instructions for Authors" to the right)
A copy of latex and Word templates can be downloaded also from here and here.
The papers will be published as an edited volume in the Springer "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" (former "Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing") series.
The maximum number of pages is 10.

Please, use the following link to submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aecia2016