ICINCO 2009 - International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation & Robotics

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	Scope \| Conference Areas \| Area 1: Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization \| Area 2: Robotics and Automation Area 3: Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control \| Keynote Speakers \| Publications Venue \| Conference Chair \| Program Co-chairs \| Program Committee

	ICINCO is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication) SCOPE 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 Daniel S. Yeung, University of Technology, China Maria P. Fanti, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Janan Zaytoon, University of Reims Champagne Ardennes, France Alessandro Giua, Universita' di Cagliari, Italy Peter S. Sapaty, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems, National Academy of Sciences Ukraine PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on 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 Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP. EI already agreed to index the proceedings of ICINCO 2006, 2007 and 2008. Proceedings of ICINCO 2009 will be evaluated by EI after their publication. 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 Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Juan Andrade-Cetto, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial CSIC-UPC, Spain Jean-Louis Ferrier, University of Angers, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Arvin Agah, The University of Kansas, United States Alessandro Chiuso, Universita di Padova, Italy Hyo-Sung Ahn, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, Republic of Frank Allgower, University of Stuttgart, Germany Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Helder Araújo, University of Coimbra, Portugal Marco Antonio Arteaga, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam, Universiti Technologi PETRONAS, Malaysia T. Asokan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Ruth Bars, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Adil Baykasoglu, University of Gaziantep, Turkey Maren Bennewitz, University of Freiburg, Germany Karsten Berns, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Arijit Bhattacharya, Dublin City University, Ireland Sergio Bittanti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Stjepan Bogdan, University of Zagreb, Faculty of EE&C, Croatia Jean-louis Boimond, ISTIA - LISA, France Djamel Bouchaffra, Oakland University, United States Bernard Brogliato, INRIA, France Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Clifford Burrows, Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, United Kingdom Dídac Busquets, Universitat de Girona, Spain Giuseppe Carbone, LARM - Laboratorio di Robotica e Meccatronica, Italy J. L. Martins de Carvalho, Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica - Porto, Portugal Alessandro Casavola, University of Calabria, Italy Riccardo Cassinis, University of Brescia, Italy Chien Chern Cheah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta, Canada Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University, United Kingdom Graziano Chesi, University of Hong Kong, China * Carlos Coello Coello, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico Yechiel Crispin, Embry-riddle Aeronautical University, United States Michael A. Demetriou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States Guilherme DeSouza, University of Missouri, United States Jorge Dias, Institute of Systems and Robotics, Portugal Gamini Dissanayake, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Denis Dochain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Tony Dodd, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Alexandre Dolgui, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Prabu Dorairaj, Wipro Technologies, India Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Venky Dubey, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom Petr Ekel, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa Sebastian Engell, Univeristy of Dortmund, Germany Simon G. Fabri, University of Malta, Malta Sergej Fatikow, University of Oldenburg, Germany Jean-marc Faure, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France Paolo Fiorini, Universit`a degli Studi di Verona, Italy Juan J. Flores, University of Michoacan, Mexico Georg Frey, German Researc Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI, Germany Manel Frigola, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain Nicholas Gans, National Reasearch Council and Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Leonardo Garrido, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico Andrea Garulli, Universita' di Siena, Italy * Lazea Gheorghe, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Paulo Gil, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Alessandro Giua, University of Cagliari, Italy Luis Gomes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Dongbing Gu, University of Essex, United Kingdom Guoxiang Gu, Louisiana State University, United States Jason Gu, Dalhousie University, Canada Wail Gueaieb, University of Ottawa, Canada José J. Guerrero, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain 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 Uwe D. Hanebeck, Institute for Anthropomatics, Germany Robert Harrison, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Dominik Henrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Victor Hinostroza, University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Guoqiang Hu, Kansas State University, United States Fumiya Iida, Robot Locomotion Group, United States Atsushi Imiya, IMIT Chiba University, Japan Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Thira Jearsiripongkul, Thammasat University, Thailand Dimitrios Karras, Chalkis Institute of Technology, Greece Dusko Katic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia Nicolas Kemper Valverde, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Tamas Keviczky, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Jonghwa Kim, University of Augsburg, Germany Won-jong Kim, Texas A&M University, United States Waree Kongprawechnon, Thammasat University, Thailand Israel Koren, University of Massachusetts, United States George L. Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary H. K. Lam, King's College London, United Kingdom Kemal Leblebicio, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Graham Leedham, University of New England, Australia Kauko Leiviskä, University of Oulu, Finland Kang Li, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom Tsai-Yen Li, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Yangmin Li, University of Macau, China Huei-Yung Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Zongli Lin, University of Virginia, United States Jing-Sin Liu, Institute of Information Science, Academis Sinica, Taiwan Frederic Maire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Om Malik, University of Calgary, Canada Jacek Mandziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Hervé Marchand, INRIA, France Gerard Mckee, The University of Reading, United Kingdom Seán McLoone, National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth, Ireland Carlo Menon, Simon Fraser University, Canada Sanya Mitaim, Thammasat University, Thailand Pieter Mosterman, The MathWorks, United States Rafael Muñoz-salinas, University of Cordoba, Spain Kenneth Muske, Villanova University, United States Andreas Nearchou, University of Patras, Greece Luciana P. Nedel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil Sergiu Nedevschi, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands Hendrik Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Juan A. Nolazco-Flores, ITESM, Campus Monterrey, Mexico Urbano Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal Romeo Ortega, LSS/CNRS/Supélec , France Manuel Ortigueira, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Selahattin Ozcelik, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, United States Christos Panayiotou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Stefano Panzieri, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy Igor Paromtchik, INRIA, France D. T. Pham, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Marie-Noëlle Pons, CNRS, France John Qiang Gan, University of Essex, United Kingdom Jerzy Respondek, Silesian University of Technology, Poland A. Fernando Ribeiro, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Robert Richardson, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Rodney Roberts, Florida State University, United States Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland António Ruano, CSI, Portugal Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Carlos Sagüés, University of Zaragoza, Spain Mehmet Sahinkaya, University of Bath, United Kingdom Antonio Sala, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Abdel-badeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt Mitsuji Sampei, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Medha Sarkar, Middle Tennessee State University, United States Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada Daniel Sbarbaro, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile Carla Seatzu, University of Cagliari, Italy João Sequeira, Instituto Superior Técnico / Institute for Systems and Robotics, Portugal Michael Short, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Silvio Simani, University of Ferrara, Italy Dan Simon, Cleveland State University, United States Adam Slowik, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland Michael Small, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Burkhard Stadlmann, University of Applied Sciences Wels, Austria Tarasiewicz Stanislaw, Université Laval, Canada Karl Stol, University of Auckland, New Zealand Olaf Stursberg, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Chun-Yi Su, Concordia University, Canada Cornel Sultan, Virginia Tech, United States Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Choon Yik Tang, University of Oklahoma, United States Jose Tenreiro Machado, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal Daniel Thalmann, VR Lab EPFL, Switzerland N. G. Tsagarakis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University (Cranfield Defence and Security), United Kingdom Nikos Tsourveloudis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Anthony Tzes, University of Patras, Greece Dariusz Ucinski, University of Zielona Gora, Poland José Valente de Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal 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 Qing-Guo Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zidong Wang, Brunel University, United Kingdom James Whidborne, Cranfield University, United Kingdom * Dirk Wollherr, Technische Universität München, Germany Marek Zaremba, Université du Québec (UQO), Canada Janan Zaytoon, University of Reims Champagne Ardennes, France Qin Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States *

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