CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
                   - ICINCO 2009

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

				July 2 - 5, 2009
 			         Milan, Italy


In cooperation with AAAI
IFAC co-sponsorship invited
Organized by INSTICC
Proceedings indexed by: ISI Proceedings, INSPEC and DBLP

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Dear Colleague,

The International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and
Robotics steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to
the ICINCO-2009 Conference, to be held in Milan, Italy.  ICINCO is
currently on its 6th edition and it is already a world-class
conference and a top reference in its area, where prestigious
researchers and invited keynote speakers yearly come to present their
work.

The deadline for paper submission is February 6. 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-Verlag.

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to
propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the
results of a specific research project, please contact the
secretariat.



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:            
  Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 2009
  Authors Notification: April 6, 2009
  Final Paper Submission and Registration: April 20, 2009 


CONFERENCE AREAS:

1. INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND OPTIMIZATION 
- 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:
- Bruno Siciliano, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
- Daniel S. Yeung, University of Technology, China
- Maria P. Fanti, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  (list not yet complete) 


WORKSHOPS:
 (Regular paper submission deadline: April 8, 2009)
 - 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