CONTROLO 2016 will be the 12th conference in the successful series of conferences on automatic control sponsored by APCA, the Portuguese association of automatic control and national IFAC organization member.
This edition of the conference will be jointly organized by the School of Engineering, University of Minho, INESC-TEC and APCA and will be co-sponsored by IFAC.
The conference will be held September 14-16, 2016, at the campus of University of Minho, in Guimarães, a Portuguese world heritage city, 55 kilometers to the north of Porto.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering, indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, MetaPress, Springerlink.
CONTROLO 2016 will provide an excellent opportunity for presenting new results and to discuss the latest research and developments in the field of automatic control.
While the topics of CONTROLO 2016 should be as wide as possible, we would like CONTROLO 2016 to become a privileged place to affirm the understated contribution of control and automation in general to human well-being. Whenever relevant, prospective authors are strongly encouraged to stress such contribution in their reported research and technology developments, so that a coherent overall picture can emerge from the conference and this gains a distinctive character.
The social and cultural program of the conference will include:

– The welcome reception that will be held at archaeological Museu Martins Sarmento and will be preceded by a visit to the historic center of Guimarães.
– The gala dinner that will be held at Pousada Mosteiro de Guimarães, a 18th century monastery magnificently rehabilitated and redesigned for tourism.
Submissions should be made through the Easychair submission system until February 5, 2016. Please follow this link to enter your submission or to create an Easychair account allowing for the submission your paper.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

*Systems, theory and design methods
Adaptive control
Control architectures
Control theory
Decision theory and algorithms
Discrete-event systems
Distributed and networked control
Fault-tolerant control
Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems
Genetic algorithms
Nonlinear control
Modeling and identification
Neural networks
Optimal control
Real time systems architectures
Robust control
Sensing and estimation algorithms
Smart structures control
Stochastic control

*Components and technology
Control technology
Hardware for control systems
Image processing and computer vision
Instrumentation, sensors and actuators


*Robotics and mechatronics
Mechatronics modelling, simulation and identification
Robotics

*Applications
Aerospace control
Agricultural processes
Biotechnological and environmental systems
Industrial automation
Industrial networking
Manufacturing systems and scheduling
Marine control
Networked fault tolerant control
Power systems control
Process control
Renewable energy systems
Transportation systems
Web remote control
Wireless applications and systems


*Social systems and control education
Control education
Economic models
Remote and virtual laboratories