CALL FOR PAPERS
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 10th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control – CONTROLO’12, to be held in Funchal, Madeira Island, July 16th to 18th, 2012. This conference is organized by UMa – University of Madeira, and APCA the Portuguese Association of Automatic Control which is a national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Contributions are welcome in both theoretical developments and practical implementations in all areas involving systems and control. Such topics include, but are not limited to:
* Adaptive control
* Aerospace control
* Agricultural processes
* Automotive control
* Behavioral systems
* Biotechnological and environmental systems
* Control applications
* Control architectures
* Control education
* Control technology, sensors and actuators
* Control theory
* Discrete-event systems
* Distributed control
* Emerging control technologies
* Fault-tolerant control
* Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems
* Genetic algorithms
* Hardware for control systems
* Hybrid systems
* Industrial automation
* Industrial networking
* Instrumentation
* Linear and nonlinear control
* Manufacturing systems and scheduling
* Marine control
* Mechatronics
* Modelling, simulation and identification
* Networked Fault Tolerant Control
* Neural networks
* Optimal control
* Process control
* Real time systems architectures
* Remote control (web)
* Remote Laboratories in Control Education
* Robotics and automation
* Robust control
* Sensors
* Smart structures control
* Stochastic control
* Transportation systems
* Wireless Applications
* Control Teaching
* Virtual Laboratories
* Renewable energy
About submitting your work please go to the instructions.
Best paper awards
The CONTROLO'12 committee will choose two contributions, between all accepted papers and posters, to receive the following awards:
- Best Industrial Paper, and;
- Best Student Paper.
Judging shall be on the bases of general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness.
The awarded paper(s) will be proposed for publication in one of the special issues planned for the conference.