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

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

  11 - 15 May, 2008
  Funchal, Madeira - Portugal

  Co-organized by INSTICC and University of Madeira
  In cooperation with
        AAAI - American Association for Artificial Intelligence

  Proceedings indexed by INSPEC, DBLP and ISI Proceedings*SM
  Best papers published by Springer-Verlag


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