INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to:

- ICONS 2021, The Sixteenth International Conference on Systems

ICONS 2021 is scheduled to be April 18 - 22, 2021 in Porto, Portugal
under the NexComm 2021 umbrella.

The submission deadline is January 19, 2021.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article
versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

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============== ICONS 2021 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


ICONS 2021, The Sixteenth International Conference on Systems

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ICONS21.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/SubmitICONS21.html


Event schedule: April 18 - 22, 2021


Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: January 19, 2021

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
https://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ICONS 2021 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CfPICONS21.html

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ICONS 2021 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Systems theory and practice
Systems design methodologies and techniques; Formal methods to specify
systems’ behavior; Online and offline systems; Open and closed systems;
Centralized and distributed systems; Proactive and reactive systems;
System robustness; Systems scalability; Fault-tolerant systems; Feedback
systems; High-speed systems; Delay tolerant systems; Real-time systems

Systems engineering
Systems requirements; Systems modeling; Systems development lifecycle;
System-of-systems; Systems ergonomics; Subsystem interactions; Systems
decomposition; Systems integration

Intelligent and vehicular transportation systems
Sensor-based intelligent systems; Intelligent systems and wireless
applications; Intelligent transport systems; Intelligent forecasting
applications; Intelligent human-computer interaction transportation
systems; Information collection and dissemination; Mobility and
vehicular traffic models; Vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside
communications; Intra-vehicle communications; Vehicle-to-Internet
communications; Driver-less transportation; Safeness in transportation
systems; Analytical and simulation techniques; Experimental systems and
field operational testing; Recent standardization efforts and problems

System Instrumentation
Metering embedded sensors; Composing multi-scale measurements;
Monitoring instrumentation; Smart sensor-based systems; Calibration and
self-calibration systems; Instrumentation for prediction systems

Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip
Real-time embedded systems Programming embedded systems; Controlling
embedded systems; High speed embedded systems; Designing methodologies
for embedded systems; Performance on embedded systems; Updating embedded
systems; Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip; Testing embedded
systems; Technologies for systems processors; Migration to single-chip
systems; Micro/nano structures and systems

Advanced embedded systems and applications/services
Advances in designing methodologies & tools for embedded systems;
Platform-based design for embedded systems; Software advances for
embedded systems; Dependable/secure embedded systems; Context-related
approaches (context-based, context-sensitive, context-aware, etc);
Synchronization and time adaptation in embedded systems; Systems-on-Chip
embedded systems and applications; On-chip signal conversion for
Embedded Systems; Networked Sensor devices and systems; Industrial
embedded systems and applications; Simulation for embedded systems;
Power-aware embedded systems; Real-time embedded systems; Virtualization
and embedded systems; Internet of Things (IoT) impact on embedded
systems; Embedded systems and embedded computation models; Testing
embedded systems; Safety and security in embedded systems; Performance
analysis of embedded systems; Mission-critical features for embedded
systems; Real-life embedded systems use cases; Dedicated devices and
applications; Design mobile services for embedded systems; Healthcare
dedicated embedded systems; Sensing and remote sensing embedded systems;
Embedded systems for automation and control of residential and
industrial buildings

Target-oriented systems [emulation, simulation, prediction, etc.]
Information systems; Real-time systems; Software systems; Hardware
systems; Emulation systems; Simulation systems Prediction systems

Specialized systems [sensor-based, mobile, multimedia, biometrics, etc.]
Sensor-based systems; Biometrics systems; Mobile and fixed systems;
Ubiquitous systems; Nano-technology-based systems; Multimedia systems

Validation systems
Diagnosis assistance systems; Test systems; Validation systems;
Performance measurement systems; Maintenance systems

Security and protection systems
Security systems; Vulnerability detecting systems; Intrusion detection
systems Intrusion avoidance systems; Presence detection systems;
Monitoring systems; Management systems; Alert systems; Defense systems;
Emergency systems

Advanced systems [expert, tutoring, self-adapting, interactive, etc.]
Expert systems; Tutoring systems; Highly interactive systems;
Anticipative systems; On-demand systems; GRID systems; Autonomic
systems; Autonomous systems; Self-adapting systems; Adjustable autonomic
systems; High performance computing systems; Mission critical systems

Application-oriented systems [content, eHealth, radar, financial,
vehicular, etc.]
Web-cashing systems; Content-distributed systems; Accounting and billing
systems; E-Health systems; E-Commerce systems; Radar systems; Navigation
systems; Systems for measuring physical quantities; Earthquake detection
and ranking systems; Financial systems; Robotics systems; Vehicular
systems; Entertainment systems; Gaming systems; Speech recognition system

IT Systems
IT service management; IT Infrastructure management; IT service desk;
Service support and delivery; Service strategy; Service design; Service
transition; Service operation; Continual service improvement

Safety in industrial systems
Fundamentals on system safety; Safety of software systems and software
engineering; Safety requirements; Safety for critical systems;
Engineering for system robustness and reliability; Control of mission
critical systems; Safety-oriented system design; Human tasks and error
models; Hazard analysis; Cost and effectiveness of system safety;
Verification and validation of safety; Safety tools; Evaluation of
safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies; Safety control
and management; System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards;
Transferring safety knowledge; Metrics for Risk Assessment; Contingency
Planning and Occurrence Reporting; Preparedness Activities; Industry
specific safety systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry,
Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety)

Complex systems
Theory of complex systems; Ontologies for complex systems; Chaos and
complexity; Design and integrate complex systems; Complexity and
simulation; Simulation and datamining; Artificial intelligence and soft
computing in complex systems; Multi-agent based simulation; Systems of
systems; Intelligent agent architectures; Evolutionary programming;
Uncertainty reduction and classification; Monitoring and managing
complex systems; Case studies of complex systems [vehicular, avionic,
health, emergency, sensing, etc.]; Industrial systems [robotics,
production, accounting and billing, e-commerce, etc.]

Computer vision and computer graphics
Fundamental algorithms for computer graphics and computer vision: Model
representation and simplification; Parametric curves and surfaces;
Illumination techniques; Colors and color systems; Virtual and augmented
reality, haptic systems; Human-computer interaction; Real time
rendering; Image processing, image reconstruction; Pattern recognition;
3D scene reconstruction; Segmentation; Motion detection; Scientific and
technical visualization; Medical imaging; Information visualization; 3D
TV; Mobile graphics and vision system; Industrial application of
computer graphics and vision

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ICONS 2021 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ComICONS21.html

Publicity Chairs
Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Jose Luis García, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
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