CSCS-17 2009 - THE 17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE CSCS-17

We have a great pleasure to invite you to participate to the CSCS-17 International Conference (THE 17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE) to be held in Bucharest, Romania, from May 26 to May 29, 2009.

Web page: http://cscs17.srait.ro
Email: cscs17-AT-srait.ro


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
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The Program Committee will select the contributions after rigorous peer-review.
Authors are invited to submit papers written in English. Please send on the conference web page a draft version of your paper(s) with no more than 8 pages, A-4 sheets, Times New Roman font, using the IFAC format (available on CSCS17 web page). For submissions, PDF and DOC formats are preferred. The paper must have an abstract and must be accompanied by a list of keywords (which should bear relevance to the CSCS17 scope of topics). Details about author(s) must be provided: first name, last name, affiliation, position, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address. For papers with multiple authors, the contact person must be indicated.
Authors will need to submit an abstract for each paper and select, from the list provided by the submission system, the track(s) to assist with the allocation of papers to reviewers and with the organization of the conference program. The IFAC format and submision system are available at:
http://cscs17.srait.ro/registration/content.html

ORGANIZERS
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Romanian Society of Control Engineering and Technical Informatics,
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest,
IEEE Romanian Section

Chairman of the IPC: prof. Ioan Dumitrache

Co-chairman: prof. Dumitru Popescu

Co-chairman: prof. Nicolae Tapus

KEY DEADLINES
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January 15, 2009: Submission of draft paper

March 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance

April 25, 2009: Submission of camera ready paper

CONFERENCE FEES
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Registration fee is 300 Euro and includes participation, volumes, coffee breaks and cocktail. The fee for foreign students is 50 Euro.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
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The organizers of CSCS-17 would like to invite contributions at this biennial traditional event. The 17th edition of CSCS takes place at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers that has been the avant-garde of the Romanian education and academic research in the control and computers science domains. The 17th edition of CSCS International Conference is going to organize invited sessions and daily workshops.

The aim of CSCS17 is to cover hot areas in control systems and computer science, concentrating on the specific topics listed below:

1. SYSTEMS AND SIGNALS (Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing; Adaptive and Learning Systems; Discrete Events and Hybrid Systems)

2. DESIGN METHODS (Control Design; Linear Control Systems; Non-Linear Control Systems; Optimal Control; Robust Control)

3. COMPUTERS, COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION (Control and Communication; Intelligent Control Systems; Fuzzy, Neuro, Geno, Evolut. Comp., AI; Computers for Control)

4. ROBOTICS, MECHATRONICS AND COMPONENTS (Robotics; Intelligent Autonomous Systems; Mechatronic Systems; Components and Instruments)

5. DATA ACQUISITION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS (Data Acquisition Systems; Intelligent Measurement Systems)

6. ADVANCES IN MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING (Manufacturing Plant Control; Flexible Manufacturing Cells; Large Scale Complex Systems; Computer Integrated Manufacturing)

7. INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS, BIO & ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (Power Plants and Power Systems; Chemical Process Control; Modelling and Control Biomedical Systems; Modelling and Control Environmental Systems; Control of Biotechnological Systems)

8. EMBEDDED CONTROL SYSTEMS

9. DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (Distributed Operating Systems; Distributed Real Time Systems; Software for Parallel and Distributed Systems; Distributed Multimedia; Secure Distributed Systems)

10. GRID COMPUTING (Grid Architecture; Task Scheduling; Grid Monitoring; Grid-enabled Applications; Grid Portals; Grid Security)

11. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (Requirements Analysis and Specification; Software Design; Software Verification and Validation; Software Metrics; Software Project Management)

12. COMPUTER VISION (Image Processing; Pattern Recognition; Shape Analysis; Image Classification; Image Retrieval; Motion Analysis)

13. LANGUAGE SOFTWARE PROCESSING (Natural Language Processing; Conceptual Languages; Knowledge-Based Systems; Human Computer Interaction)

14. MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (Simulation and Intelligent Distributed Control; Hybrid Intelligent Agents; Multi-Agent-Based Applications)

15. ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

16. ADVANCED ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS