ICIAfS 2012 - International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAFs)

6th ICIAfS in Beijing, China on 27,28 & 29 September 2012
Scope of 2012 Conference
1. Industrial Automation:
Systems modeling and control / Mechatronics / Industrial and manufacturing automation / Industrial informatics / Industrial Electronics / Industrial robotics and control / Smart grids / Supply-chain management / Quality management / Testing and screening / System safety / Program and project management / Integrated manufacturing and service systems / Intelligent transportation systems / AI and computational intelligence in IAMS .
2. Wired and Wireless Integration:
Hybrid access optical networks / Microwave-millimeterwave over fibre /Wireless communications technologies / Sensor networks / Home security / Cyber infrastructure / Grid technology / Living in a wireless world - applications / Information sharing / Internet technology / AI and computational intelligenceWSTP / High speed data networks/ Cloud computing.
3. Intelligent Machines and Man-machine Co-existence:
Pattern recognition / Image processing / Machine learning / Expert systems / Decision support systems / Soft computing / Data fusion, data mining and knowledge discovery / Bio-robotics / AI and computational intelligence in IMMMC / Sensor design, integration, and fusion / Machine vision / Man-machine interfaces / Brain-computer Interface / Bioinformatics and bioengineering / Neural networks / Fuzzy systems / Evolutionary computation.
4. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Social Transformation:
Impact of ICT on society / E-transformation of organizations / Technologies to support process automation / Technologies to support collaborative work / Semantic web technologies / E-learning systems and applications /E-commerce / E-governance / Ubiquitous, collaborative and learning organizations.
5. Sustainable Energy:
Energy harvesting and implementation / Electricity transmission / Grid connection / Smart grid / Energy conversion, management and policy / Energy storage / Renewable energy / Cogeneration / Energy efficient equipment and systems / Climate change mitigation / New materials / Nanotechnologies.
6. Disaster Management:
Remote sensing and Earth observation/ Geographic information systems/ Crises management/ Rapid mapping/ ICT for disaster risk reduction/ Global positioning ? GNSS/ Spatial modeling/ Emergency management/ Early warning systems/ Vulnerability to disasters/ Spatial information interoperability/ Collaboration and collaborative systems/ Human-computer interaction/ Crowdsource mapping/ Social media/ Geosensor networks/ Collective sensing/ Decision analysis and technologies/ Hazard and risk simulation/ Recovery and sustainability.