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The 8th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems - ICUMT 2016
http://www.icumt.info

October 18 - 20, 2016
Lisbon, Portugal
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Important Dates:

Deadline for Full Paper Submission: June 10, 2016
Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 12, 2016
Final Paper Submission: August 26, 2016
Authors' Early Registration: August 26, 2016
Authors' Late Registration: September 9, 2016

The 8th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems - ICUMT 2016 is an IEEE technically co-sponsored (approved) premier annual international congress providing an open forum for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers in telecommunications, control, automation and robotics targeted on newly emerging systems, standards, services, and applications. ICUMT 2016, organized by Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic and Tampere University of Technology, Finland, Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa, Portugal, and Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal will be held in Congress Centre of Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal on 18 – 20 October, 2016.

Call for papers is available via http://www.icumt.info/2016/CfP.pdf

The aim of ICUMT is to bring together international players in telecommunications, robotics and control systems. The congress consists of two open call tracks, workshops and industrial panels. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers including technical novelties and tutorial overviews in the areas including but not limited to:

Telecommunications track (ICUMT-T)
* 4G / 5G mobile systems and services
* Wireless access technologies, related systems and protocols
* Internet of Things
* Green communications
* Ultra-wideband communications (UWB)
* Underwater communications
* Low-layer wireless technologies
* Information and coding theory
* Digital broadcasting technologies and services
* Pervasive computing and smart environment
* Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)
* Social networks
* e-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning and e-Health
* Bio-inspired/Bio-oriented Networks
* Location techniques and location-based services LBS
* Broadband satellite and HAPS (High Altitude Platform Station) Technologies
* Information security technologies
* Web technologies
* Multimedia & Internet systems, services and standards
* Mobile Internet, Internet telephony (VoIP, MoIP) and IPTV
* Network management, operation and maintenance
* Optical networking technologies and applications
* Communication network topology and planning
* Systems & software engineering aspects
* GRID, distributed computing technologies and services
* IT services technologies

Control Systems, Automation and Robotics track (ICUMT-CS) * Control Systems
* Neural networks
* Fuzzy systems
* Genetic algorithms
* Control engineering education
* Robotics and automation
* Industrial networks and automation
* Intelligent warehouses
* Modeling, simulation and architectures
* Vision, recognition and reconstruction
* Virtual and augmented reality
* Biomedical instrumentation and applications
* Petri nets

Perspective authors for regular papers, workshops and industrial sessions, please visit the conference website http://www.icumt.info for more details. For regular sessions, authors are invited to submit 6-page full papers according to the posted guidelines. Only electronic submissions will be accepted via the EDAS system at: http://edas.info/N22013. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the Congress and at least one author of each paper MUST register for the Congress in order for the papers to be included in the proceedings.

The accepted and presented papers will be sent for the indexing in IEEE Xplore, SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (WoS - ISI Proceedings).

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ICUMT 2016 Committee

ICUMT Series Steering Committee
Jan Haase, IEEE Region 8, Austria
Jiri Misurec, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
James P.G. Sterbenz, University of Kansas USA, Lancaster University UK

GENERAL CHAIRS
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Filipe Cardoso, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
Jiri Hosek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS
Luis Correia, IST – University of Lisbon, Portugal
Luisa Caeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal

TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONGRESS CHAIRS
Jenq-Shiou Leu, NTUST U., Taiwan
Ladislav Venc, AT&T, Czech Republic

CONTROL SYSTEMS, AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS CONGRESS CHAIRS
Juha Roning, University of Oulu, Finland
Léonard Janer García, TecnoCampus, Spain

WORKSHOP CHAIR
Ivan Ganchev, University of Limerick, Ireland
Pavel Masek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONGRESS TPC CHAIRS
Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ninoslav Marina, U. IST St. Paul the Apostle, Macedonia

CONTROL SYSTEMS TPC CHAIRS
Matteo Bianchi, University of Pisa, Italy
Roberto Dorigo, Electrolux GTC, Italy

CONGRESS PUBLICATION CHAIRS
Sergey Andreev, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Norbert Herencsar, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

CONGRESS PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Federal U. of Santa Maria, Brazil
Feng Xia, Dalian U. of Technology, China
Aslihan Kartci, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

CONGRESS INDUSTRIAL CHAIRS
Franz Kröpfl, Telekom Austria Group, Austria
Boris Moltchanov, Telecom Italia, Italy
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For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Congress: http://www.icumt.info