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 sponsored by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication).

SCOPE

The purpose of the 7th 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:

1. Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
2. Robotics and Automation
3. Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control

• 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

• 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

• 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

José Santos-Victor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa
Alícia Casals, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia.IBEC and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.UPC, Spain
Bradley Nelson, Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
Wisama Khalil, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, IRCCyN, France
Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Research & Adv. Engineering, U.S.A.
John Hollerbach, University of Utah, U.S.A.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a LNEE Series book.
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 are under evaluation and the proceedings of ICINCO 2010 will be evaluated by EI after their publication.

VENUE

The conference will be held in the Hotel Tivoli Madeira. The Tivoli Madeira is a truly stunning property located 5 minutes from Funchal city centre and 30 minutes from Madeira International Airport. This award-winning hotel overlooks the beachfront promenade and guests are guaranteed gorgeous views of the sea with direct access from the hotel to the sandy beach.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / 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

Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
Arvin Agah, The University of Kansas, United States
Eugenio Aguirre, University of Granada, Spain
Hesham Alfares, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Adel Al-Jumaily, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Peter Arato, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Marco Antonio Arteaga, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
T. Asokan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Ruth Bars, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Adil Baykasoglu, University of Gaziantep, Turkey
Karsten Berns, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA-CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Christian Blum, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Patrick Boucher, Supélec, France
Bernard Brogliato, INRIA, France
Kevin Burn, University of Sunderland, 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
Ratchatin Chanchareon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Antonio Chella, Università di Palermo, Italy
Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Graziano Chesi, University of Hong Kong, China
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of
Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Life Sciences, Poland
Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
José Boaventura Cunha, University of Trás-os-montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
Claudio de Persis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Danilo De Rossi, University of Pisa, Italy
Mingcong Deng, Okayama University, Japan
Guilherme DeSouza, University of Missouri, United States
Denis Dochain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Tony Dodd, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
António Dourado Correia, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Venky Dubey, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Frederick Ducatelle, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Switzerland
Ashish Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Petr Ekel, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Atilla Elci, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Ali Eydgahi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, United States
Jean-marc Faure, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
Javier Fernandez de Canete, University of Malaga, Spain
Paolo Fiorini, Universit`a degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Georg Frey, Saarland University, Germany
Wai-Keung Fung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Andrea Garulli, Universita' di Siena, Italy
Ryszard Gessing, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
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
Kevin Guelton, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
Maki K. Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Wolfgang Halang, Fernuniversitaet, Germany
Onur Hamsici, Qualcomm, United States
John Harris, University of Florida, United States
Inman Harvey, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Dominik Henrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Alejandro Hernandez Arieta, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Suranga Hettiarachchi, Indiana University Southeast, United States
Victor Hinostroza, University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Guoqiang Hu, Kansas State University, United States
Joris Hulstijn, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fumiya Iida, Robot Locomotion Group, United States
Atsushi Imiya, IMIT Chiba University, Japan
Giovanni Indiveri, University of Salento, Italy
Mirjana Ivanovic, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Kathryn J. De Laurentis, University of South Florida, United States
Sarangapani Jagannathan, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Masoud Jamei, Simcyp Ltd, United Kingdom
Ping Jiang, The University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
DaeEun Kim, Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of
Won-jong Kim, Texas A&M University, United States
Israel Koren, University of Massachusetts, United States
Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Mianowski Krzysztof, Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
H. K. Lam, King's College London, United Kingdom
Alexander Lanzon, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Kauko Leiviskä, University of Oulu, Finland
Zongli Lin, University of Virginia, United States
Guoping Liu, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Jing-Sin Liu, Institute of Information Science, Academis Sinica, Taiwan
Anthony Maciejewski, Colorado State University, United States
Frederic Maire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Om Malik, University of Calgary, Canada
Hervé Marchand, INRIA, France
Raul Marin Prades, Jaume I University, Spain
Philippe Martinet, Lasmea, France
Rene V. Mayorga, University of Regina, Canada
Seán McLoone, National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth, Ireland
Prashant Mehta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Carlo Menon, Simon Fraser University, Canada
António Paulo Moreira, INESC Porto / FEUP, Portugal
Vladimir Mostyn, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Rafael Muñoz-salinas, University of Cordoba, Spain
Kenneth Muske, Villanova University, United States
Monica N. Nicolescu, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Andreas Nearchou, University of Patras, Greece
Luciana Nedel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Sergiu Nedevschi, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Klas Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden
Urbano Nunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Manuel Ortigueira, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Selahattin Ozcelik, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, United States
Igor Paromtchik, INRIA, France
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
D. T. Pham, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Michael Piovoso, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Alexande Poznyak, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
José Ragot, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France
Jerzy Respondek, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
A. Fernando Ribeiro, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Robert Richardson, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Mihailo Ristic, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
Agostinho Rosa, IST, Portugal
Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Mehmet Sahinkaya, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Priti Srinivas Sajja, Sardar Patel University, India
Abdel-badeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Marcello Sanguineti, University of Genova, Italy
Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada
Sergio M. Savaresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Carla Seatzu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Michael Short, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Silvio Simani, University of Ferrara, Italy
Dan Simon, Cleveland State University, United States
Olivier Simonin, INRIA - LORIA, France
Joaquin Sitte, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Adam Slowik, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Andrzej Sluzek, Nanyang Technological University/Nicolaus Copernicus University, Singapore
Safeeullah Soomro, Yanbu University College, Saudi Arabia
Stefano Squartini, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
Burkhard Stadlmann, University of Applied Sciences Wels, Austria
Chun-Yi Su, Concordia University, Canada
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
José Tenreiro Machado, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
Daniel Thalmann, VR Lab EPFL, Switzerland
N. G. Tsagarakis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Avgoustos Tsinakos, University of Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece
Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University (Cranfield Defence and Security), United Kingdom
Angel Valera, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Eloisa Vargiu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Annamaria R. Varkonyi-koczy, Obuda University, Hungary
Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
Damir Vrancic, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Bernardo Wagner, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Dianhui Wang, La Trobe University, Australia
James Whidborne, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Sangchul Won, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of
Qishi Wu, University of Memphis, United States
Marek Zaremba, Université du Québec (UQO), Canada
Janan Zaytoon, University of Reims Champagne Ardennes, France
Primo Zingaretti, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy