IEEE SMC 2013 - Cyber Systems Enabling Knowledge Integration: The Smart Response to Emerging Societal Challenges

The 2013 IEEE SMC will be held in Manchester, in the heart of England. This city offers a unique combination of both historical and modern aspects of British culture. The conference venue is the Midland Hotel where the founding of the Rolls-Royce Company occurred on May 4, 1904. The hotel is located in downtown Manchester, near the railway station and business district. The 2013 IEEE SMC provides an international forum for both researchers and practitioners to report their latest innovations, summarize state-of-the-art in the field, as well as exchange ideas, results, and visions in all fields of systems engineering, cybernetics, and human-machine systems. Organized according to those three principal SMC areas, the conference calls for papers on the technical topics listed below. Contributions ranging from theoretical results to practical or industrial applications are strongly encouraged. The conference theme is:
Cyber Systems Enabling Knowledge Integration:The Smart Response to Emerging Societal Challenges
Dynamic scientific and technological progress in all areas of human activities enables everyone to access almost limitless amounts of data as well as to interact in many different ways with the surroundings and with each other. The more that knowledge is engaged, the smarter the interaction processes, and the more efficient the solutions are. For this purpose, we need sound principles for the design of complex systems and methodologies for application of huge volumes of knowledge of these systems, based on cybernetic principles. We seek optimal ways to couple the complex technical systems with humans efficiently to respond to the vast societal challenges of today and tomorrow. The SMC community has accumulated considerable expertise with complex systems in all areas of Systems Science and Engineering, Cybernetics, and HumanMachine Systems. The latest results are expected to be presented at the conference.
Systems Science & Engineering:
Conflict Resolution
Cooperative Systems and Control
Decision Support Systems
Discrete Evenet Systems and Petri Nets
Distributed Intelligent Systems
Enterprise Information Systems
Grey Systems
Homeland Security
Industrial Applications
Infrastructure Systems and Services
Intelligent Green Production Systems
Intelligent Learning in Control Systems
Intelligent Power and Energy Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Medical Mechatronics
Robotic and Autonomous Systems
Service Systems and Organization
System Modeling and Control
Systems Biology
Technology Assessment/Innovation
Cybernetics:
Agent-Based Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Brain and Cognitive Engineering
Computational Life Science
Data and Information Fusion
Evolutionary Algorithms and
Computing
Granular Computing
Information Security
Intelligent Internet Systems
Intelligent Vehicle Systems
Internet of Things
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge-Based Systems
Machine Learning
Machine Perception
Medical Informatics
Natural Language Processing
Neural Networks
Pattern Recognition
Semantic Web
Soft Computing
Human-Machine Systems:
Adjustable Autonomy
Assistive Technology
Brain-Machine Interface Systems
Cognitive Computing
Cooperative Work-in-Design
Haptics and Teleoperation Human
Centered Design
Human Centered Transportation
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Machine System Design
Human-Robot Interaction
Information Systems for Design
Interactive Digital Media
Emotion Engineering
Prosthetic & Orthotic Technology
Social Robotics
Systems Safety and Security
Virtual Reality Systems
Virtual Prototyping and Training
Web Intelligence and Interactions