SCOPE
The purpose of the 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. Three simultaneous tracks will be held, covering Intelligent Control Systems, Optimization, Robotics, Automation, Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control.
Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation and Robotics; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors should highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using IT, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICINCO, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icinco.org/.
TOPIC AREAS / CONFERENCE TRACKS
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
Robotics and Automation
Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control
AREA 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
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
AREA 2: ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
Robot design, development and control
Human-robots interfaces
Network robotics
Mobile robots and autonomous systems
Human augmentation and shared control
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)
AREA 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
WORKSHOPS
ICINCO expects to host several workshops. If you would like to propose the organization of a workshop to be held in conjunction with ICINCO 2004, please send an e-mail to workshops@icinco.org.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, U.K.
Albert Cheng, University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Wolfgang Arndt, Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany
Nuno Martins, M.I.T., U.S.A.
Kurosh Madani, Université Paris 12, France
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TUTORIALS
ICINCO 2004 will include several tutorials, to be lectured the day before the conference opening. If you would like to propose a tutorial for ICINCO 2004, please contact the secretariat as soon as possible. Proposals should specify the topic and scope of the tutorial, the background knowledge expected of the participants, and a short CV of the instructor(s).
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should submit a complete paper in English of up to 8 A4 pages, using the submission procedure indicated below. The program committee will review all papers and the contact author of each paper will be notified of the result, by email.
Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the conference track to which the paper is submitted. The paper must be carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling.
Paper submission procedure
A "blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, WITHOUT any reference to the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in any part of this file.
The contact author will then use the ICINCO web-based submission, facility available at the conference web site http://www.icinco.org, to enter the contact information of all paper authors plus the file indicated in point 1, above. The facility will automatically send a submission acknowledgement, by email, to the author indicated as "contact author".
The camera-ready format should be strictly used for all submitted papers. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided.
If the author is unable to use the web-based procedure then he/she can send the paper by e-mail to the secretariat attaching an additional file containing: the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact details, a list of keywords and an abstract.
Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the camera-ready version will be limited to 8 (eight) pages for full papers, 6 (six) for short papers (progress reports) and 4 (four) for poster presentations.
If absolutely needed, the number of pages may be increased up to a maximum of 12. However, for each page in excess of the maximum allowed, the author will have to pay an additional fee.
PUBLICATIONS
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 Kluwer Academic Publishers. The publication of extended versions of outstanding conference papers is also a possibility being discussed with several scientific journals.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full Paper Submission: 15th February 2004
Workshops Submission: 15th April 2004
Author Notification: 15th May 2004
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 5th June 2004
Conference Dates: 25th to 28th August 2004
SECRETARIAT
ICINCO 2004 Secretariat
Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal / Campus do IPS
Rua Vale Chaves, Estefanilha
2914-508 Setúbal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 790 000 - Fax: +351 265 721 869
Email: secretariat@icinco.org
Web: http://www.icinco.org
VENUE
The conference will be held in Setúbal, a Portuguese city located on the right bank of Sado River, in front of Tróia, approximately 48 km to the south-east of the Portuguese capital - Lisboa where we can find the airport.
Setúbal is since 1926 capital of district and is one of the most interesting cities of Portugal, giving its visitors great fun activities, places and monuments and flaring landscapes, conjugated with an important industrial implantation. This city also has an harbor where people can visit Tróia using the ferryboats, and enjoy the beaches, the golf courses and ancient ruins.
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Joaquim Filipe, E.S.T. Setúbal, Portugal
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Helder Araújo, I.S.R. Coimbra, Portugal
Alves Vieira, E.S.T. Setúbal, Portugal
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Luis Antonio Aguirre, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Frank Allgöwer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Péter Arató, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Artur Arsénio, LCS MIT, U.S.A.
Hajime Asama, University of Tokyo, Japan
Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mark Balas, University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.
Aldo Balestrino, University of Pisa, Italy
Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Ruth Bars, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Alberto Bemporad, University of Siena, Italy
Andreas Birk, International University Bremen, Germany
Patrick Boucher, Service Automatique, Supelec, France
Abhay Bulsari, Nonlinear Solutions Oy, Finland
Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Kevin Burn, University of Sunderland, U.K.
Clifford R. Burrows, University of Bath, U.K.
Martin Buss, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon/Uninova, Portugal
Marco Campi, University of Brescia, Italy
Javier Fernández de Cañete, University of Malaga, Spain
Christos G. Cassandras, Boston University, U.S.A.
Raja Chatila, LAAS-CNRS, France
Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta, Canada
Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, U.S.A.
Henrik I. Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Luis Correia, FC - University of Lisbon, Portugal
João Paulo Costeira, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Couto, University of Minho, Portugal
Luis Custódio, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karsruhe, Germany
Denis Dochain, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
António Dourado, FCTUC - University of Coimbra, Portugal
Wlodzislaw Duch, Nicholaus Copernicus University, Poland
Heinz H. Erbe, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Gerardo Espinosa-Perez, Autonomous Nacional University of Mexico, Mexico
Ali Feliachi, West Virginia University, U.S.A.
David Dagan Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Jean-Louis Ferrier, University of Angers, France
Nicola J. Ferrier, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa, Electric Research Institute, Mexico
Florin Gheorghe Filip, National Institute for R&D in Informatics, Romania
Colin Fyfe, University of Paisley, U.K.
Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Adolfo Steiger Garção, FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Lazea Gheorghe, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Fathi H. Ghorbel, Rice University, U.S.A
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, U.S.A
Andrew Goldenberg, University of Toronto, Canada
Jorge Gonçalves, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A
John Gray, University of Salford, U.K.
Thomas Gustafsson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Wolfgang Halang, University of Hagen, Germany
John Hallam, The University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Riad Ibrahim Hammoud, Delphi-Delco & Indiana University, U.S.A.
Dominik Henrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany
João Pedro Hespanha, University of California, U.S.A.
Weng Khuen Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Marc M. Van Hulle, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Atsushi Imiya, Chiba University, Japan
Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Ray Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
Karel Jezernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ben Jonker, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Gabriel Juhas, K. U. Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
Nicos Karcanias, City University, U.K.
Fakhreddine Karray, University of Waterloo, Canada
Tohru Katayama, Kyoto University, Japan
Dusko Katic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Yugoslavia
Lydia E. Kavraki, Rice University, U.S.A.
Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan
Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey
Uwe Kiencke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden
Rudibert King, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Michel Kinnaert, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Nadir Ould Khessal, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
Hannu Koivisto, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Jozef Korbicz, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Bart Kosko, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tokohu University, Japan
Zdenko Kovacic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia
Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Fátima Silva Leite, ISR/FCTUC - University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jesse Leitner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S.A.
Frank Lewis, The University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A.
Gordon Lightbody, University College Cork, Ireland
Jan Ligus, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Zongli Lin, University of Virginia, U.S.A
Lennart Ljungn, Linköping University, Sweden
Joachim Lückel, University of Paderborn, Germany
Bruno Maione, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Frederic Maire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Om Malik, University of Calgary, Canada
Jacek Mañdziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Margareth Simões Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Max Meng, University of Alberta, Canada
Basil G. Mertzios, Democritus Univerity of Thrace, Greece
Arturo Molina, CSIM-ITESM, Mexico
Eugenio Aguirre Molina, University of Granada, Spain
Laszlo Monostori, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Manfred Morari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Vladimír Mostýn, Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic
David J. Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow, U.K.
Kenneth R. Muske, Villanova University, U.S.A.
Sergiu Nedevschi, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Hendrik Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Thomas Parisini, DEEI - University of Trieste, Italy
Gabriella Pasi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Carlos Pereira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Marco A. Arteaga Pérez, Autonomous National University of Mexico, Mexico
Joaquim Norberto Pires, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Marie-Noelle Pons, Lab. Chemical Engineering Sciences/CNRS, France
Omer F. Rana, University of Waikato, New Zealand
John Reed, Silsoe Research Institute, U.K.
Maria Isabel Ribeiro, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Robert C. Richardson, University of Manchester, U.K.
John Ringwood, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Thomas Rist, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Brian Roffel, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Danilo De Rossi, Interdepartmental Center "E.Piaggio", Italy
António E. B. Ruano, University of Algarve, Portugal
Antonio Sala, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
Ricardo Sanz, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain
Nilanjan Sarkar, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada
Carsten W. Scherer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Klaus Schilling, University of Würzburg, Germany
João Sentieiro, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
João Silva Sequeira, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Rodolfo Soncini Sessa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples, Italy
Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mark W. Spong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Johan Stahre, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Gerrit van Straten, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mario Sznaier, The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A
Stanislaw Tarasiewicz, University of Laval, Canada
Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, University of Milan, Italy
Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A
Ljubisa Vlacic, Griffith University, Australia
Axel Walthelm, University of Lübeck, Germany
Jun Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Alex Yakovlev, University of Newcastle, U.K.
Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.
Shuji Yoshizawa, Saitama University, Japan
Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, U.S.A.
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Detlef Zuehlke, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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