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