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

ICINCO is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication)

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The purpose of the 6th 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 are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial or organizing a workshop are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icinco.org/.


CONFERENCE AREAS

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 conference 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
- 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
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
- 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
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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Bruno Siciliano, Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Daniel S. Yeung, University of Technology, China
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PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. Please check the paper formats so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web site must be strictly used for all submitted papers. The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided.
Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.
Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.


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 Springer.
The proceedings will be indexed by ISI ProceedingsSM, INSPEC and DBLP.
EI already agreed to index the proceedings of ICINCO 2006. Proceedings of ICINCO 2007 are under evaluation and the proceedings of ICINCO 2008 will be evaluated by EI after their publication.


IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Dates: 2 - 5 July, 2009

Regular Paper Submission: January 30, 2009
Authors Notification: April 6, 2009
Final Paper Submission and Registration: April 20, 2009


SECRETARIAT

ICINCO Secretariat
Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq.
2910-595 Set¨?bal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5435
Email: secretariat-AT-icinco.org
Web: http://www.icinco.org


VENUE

Milan (Milano), situated on the flat plains of the Po Valley, is the capital of Lombardy and thoroughly enjoys its hard earned role as Italy's richest and second largest city. Wealthy and cosmopolitan, the Milanesi enjoy a reputation as successful businesspeople, equally at home overseas and in Italy. Embracing tradition, sophistication and ambition in equal measure, they are just as likely to follow opera at La Scala as their shares on the city's stock market or AC or Inter at the San Siro Stadium.
Three times in its history, the city had to rebuild after being conquered. Founded in the seventh century BC by Celts, the city, then known as Mediolanum ('mid-plain'), was first sacked by the Goths in the 600s (AD), then by Barbarossa in 1157 and finally by the Allies in World War II, when over a quarter of the city was flattened. Milan successively reinvented herself under French, Spanish and then Austrian rulers from 1499 until the reunification of Italy in 1870. It is a miracle that so many historic treasures still exist, including Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, which survived a direct hit in World War II. The Milanesi's appreciation of tradition includes a singular respect for religion; they even pay a special tax towards the Cathedral maintenance. It is therefore fitting that the city's enduring symbol is the gilded statue of the Virgin, on top of the Cathedral (Il Duomo).
Milan is founded around a historic nucleus radiating from the Cathedral, with a star-shaped axis of arteries spreading through modern suburbs to the ring road. The modern civic center lies to the northwest, around Mussolini's central station, and is dominated by the Pirelli skyscraper, which dates from 1956. The trade and fashion fairs take place in the Fiera district, west of the nucleus around the Porta Genova station. Milan's economic success was founded at the end of the 19th century, when the metal factories and the rubber industries moved in, replacing agriculture and mercantile trading as the city's main sources of income. Milan's position at the heart of a network of canals, which provided the irrigation for the Lombard plains and the important trade links between the north and south, became less important as industry took over - and the waterways were filled. A few canals remain in the Navigli district near the Bocconi University, a fashionable area in which to drink and listen to live music.
Since the 1970s, Milan has remained the capital of Italy's automobile industry and its financial markets, but the limelight is dominated by the fashion houses, who, in turn, have drawn media and advertising agencies to the city. Milan remains the marketplace for Italian fashion - fashion aficionados, supermodels and international paparazzi descend upon the city twice a year for its spring and autumn fairs. Valentino, Versace and Armani may design and manufacture their clothes elsewhere but Milan, which has carefully guarded its reputation for flair, drama and creativity, is Italy's natural stage.


CONFERENCE CHAIR

Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Set¨?bal / INSTICC, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Juan Andrade-Cetto, Universitat Aut¨°noma de Barcelona, Spain
Jean-Louis Ferrier, University of Angers, France


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hyo-Sung Ahn, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, Republic of
Fouad Al-sunni, Kfupm, Saudi Arabia
Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yacine Amirat, University Paris 12, France
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Peter Arato, Budapest University Of Technology And Economics, F, Hungary
Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam, University Technology Petronas, Malaysia
Robert Babuska, Delft University Of Technology, Netherlands
Adil Baykasoglu, University of Gaziantep, Turkey
Maren Bennewitz, University of Freiburg, Germany
Karsten Berns, University Of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Arijit Bhattacharya, Dublin City University, Ireland
Stjepan Bogdan, University of Zagreb, Faculty of EE&C, Croatia
Djamel Bouchaffra, Oakland University, United States
D¨ªdac Busquets, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Alessandro Casavola, University Of Calabria, Italy
Chien Chern Cheah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tongwen Chen, University Of Alberta, Canada
Albert Cheng, University Of Houston, United States
Graziano Chesi, University Of Hong Kong, China
Elena De Santis, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Matthias Dehmer, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Guilherme Desouza, University Of Missouri, United States
Tony Dodd, The University Of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Alexandre Dolgui, Ecole Des Mines De Saint Etienne, France
Prabu Dorairaj, Wipro Technologies, India
Marco Dorigo, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Petr Ekel, Pontifical Catholic University Of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sebastian Engell, Univeristy Of Dortmund, Germany
Sergej Fatikow, University Of Oldenburg, Germany
Georg Frey, German Researc Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI, Germany
Colin Fyfe, University Of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
Leonardo Garrido, Monterrey Institute Of Technology, Mexico
Lazea Gheorghe, Technical University Of Cluj-napoca, Romania
Alessandro Giua, University Of Cagliari, Italy
Luis Gomes, Universidade Nova De Lisboa, Portugal
Jason Gu, Dalhousie University, Canada
Thomas Gustafsson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Maki K. Habib, Saga University, Japan
Hani Hagras, University Of Essex, United Kingdom
Wolfgang Halang, Fernuniversitaet, Germany
Riad Hammoud, Delphi Corporation, United States
Dominik Henrich, University Of Bayreuth, Germany
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University Of Technology, Poland
Guoqiang Hu, Kansas State University, United States
Michail Kalogiannakis, University of Crete, France
Dusko Katic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia
Israel Koren, University Of Massachusetts, United States
H.K. Lam, King's College london, United Kingdom
Kemal Leblebicio, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Loo Hay Lee, National University Of Singapore, Singapore
Kang Li, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Brian Lovell, The University Of Queensland, Australia
Anthony Maciejewski, Colorado State University, United States
Om Malik, University Of Calgary, Canada
Herv¨¦ Marchand, Inria, France
Rene V. Mayorga, University Of Regina, Canada
Ken Mcgarry, University Of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Se¨¢n McLoone, National University Of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth, Ireland
Vladimir Mostyn, VSB - Technical University Of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Rafael Muñoz-salinas, University of Cordoba, Spain
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Sergiu Nedevschi, Technical University Of Cluj-napoca, Romania
Ulrich Nehmzow, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands
Juan A. Nolazco-Flores, ITESM, Campus Monterrey, Mexico
Manuel Ortigueira, Faculdade de Ci¨ºncias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova De Lisboa, Portugal
Christos Panayiotou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Stefano Panzieri, University, Italy
Evangelos Papadopoulos, NTUA, Greece
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
Witold Pedrycz, University Of Alberta, Canada
D.T. Pham, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Marie-noëlle Pons, Cnrs, France
Jerzy Respondek, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
A. Fernando Ribeiro, Universidade Do Minho, Portugal
Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
Agostinho Rosa, Ist, Portugal
Carlos Sag¨?¨¦s, University Of Zaragoza, Spain
Priti Srinivas Sajja, Sardar Patel University, India
Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada
Matthias Scheutz, Indiana University, United States
Carla Seatzu, University Of Cagliari, Italy
João Sequeira, Instituto Superior T¨¦cnico / Institute For Systems And Robotics, Portugal
Michael Short, University Of Leicester, United Kingdom
Bruno Siciliano, Universit¨¤ di Napoli Federico Ii, Italy
Silvio Simani, University Of Ferrara, Italy
Dan Simon, Cleveland State University, United States
Michael Small, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Tarasiewicz Stanislaw, Universit¨¦ Laval, Canada
Chun-Yi Su, Concordia University, Canada
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Agh University Of Science And Technology, Poland
Jose Tenreiro Machado, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
Daniel Thalmann, Vrlab Epfl, Switzerland
Avgoustos Tsinakos, TEI OF KAVALA, Greece
Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University (Defence College of Management and Technology), United Kingdom
Ivan Tyukin, Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Anthony Tzes, University of Patras, Greece
Marc Van Hulle, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Eloisa Vargiu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Laurent Vercouter, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
Bernardo Wagner, University Of Hannover, Germany
Axel Walthelm, Sepp.med Gmbh, Germany
Dianhui Wang, La Trobe University, Australia
Zidong Wang, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Janan Zaytoon, Universite de Reims, France
Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polyetchnic, Singapore