AQTR 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR 2012)

The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, AQTR 2012 (THETA 18), which will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on May 24-27 2012. The conference follows the tradition of the 17 automation and testing related scientific events, organized in Cluj-Napoca since 1981 under the name THETA/AQTR.

AQTR 2012 is intended to be an international forum for researchers in the field of automation, quality, testing and robotics. It will bring together equipment manufacturers, software developers and end-users to discuss the current trends and future directions of control and testing technologies and their industrial and social applications in the private and the public sectors. Active participation of students and graduate students is strongly encouraged.

Selected papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore database and ISI Proceedings.

Topics

Control systems
Modeling and simulation, control methods, real-time systems, decision support systems, distributed systems, intelligent systems, embedded systems.
Testing
ATE, automatic test generation, design for testability, built-in self-test/repair, dependability, software testing, system testing.
Quality of experiments
QoS, quality management, standards.
Robotics
Autonomous mobile robots, parallel structures, machine vision, applications.
Applications
eHealth (personalized monitoring, chronic disease management, biomechanics, bioinformatics), image processing, eLearning, eCitizen, applied informatics, technical applications, manufacturing and engineering, environment and infrastructure protection, network infrastructure, network sensors.
Student forum
Student presentations in the above topics.
Tutorials

On test technology topics, offered by IEEE TTTC Test Technology Educational Program (TTEP) 2012 (http://tab.computer.org/tttc/teg/ttep)
On other conference topics
General Chairs

Liviu Miclea (TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Ioan Stoian (IPA Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Honorary Chairs

Yervant Zorian (Synopsys, USA)
Paolo Prinetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
General Vice-Chairs

Mihail Abrudean (TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Eugen Stâncel (IPA Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Program and Tutorial Chairs

Paula Raica (TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Dorina Căpă?înă (IPA Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Finance Chairs

Mihail Abrudean (TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Teodora Sanislav (IPA Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Honoriu Vălean (TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Public Relations Chair

Iulia Ştefan (TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
e-Media & Publication Chairs

Szilárd Enyedi (TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Ovidiu Ghiran (IPA Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Alina Călăraşu (IPA Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Program Committee Topic Chairs

A. Aştilean (Romania)
Al. Botu (Romania)
C. Feştila (Romania)
V. Hahanov (Ukraine)
T. Leţia (Romania)
G. DI Natale (France)
G. Spiridon (Romania)