IMAACA 2020 – Call for Paper!
The 13th International Conference on Integrated Modeling and Analysis in Applied Control and Automation (IMAACA 2020)
(http://www.msc-les.org/conf/imaaca2020/)


Dates and Location
September 16-18, 2020
Venue: Athens, GREECE

New Author’s Instruction for all the I3M attendees (including EMSS, HMS, MAS, IMACCA, IWISH, SESDE, FOODOPS, VARE)
The I3M Organization Committee has approved a new procedure for papers submission. As tradition, I3M provides its attendees with the opportunity to publish extended version of selected papers to International Journals.
To this end, the Organization Committee is looking forward to speed the journal publication process. Therefore, the following changes have been approved:
1. It is strongly recommended (not mandatory) that camera-ready papers for the conference do not exceed 6 pages length (minimum mandatory length: 4 pages).
2. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare directly an extended version of the article (e.g. 8-10 pages), to use a short version of the article as camera ready paper for the conference (see point 1) and the full length paper for the journal (the full length paper for the journal must be at least 50% different from the short version used for the conference).
3. At the time of the Notification of Acceptance of the conference paper, the authors will be informed if their papers have been selected for journal publication. Additional information regarding the journal submission process will be provided by email.
4. Information about the deadlines for journal submission are reported in the “Deadline Section” of each conference website.

Key Dates
Abstracts or full draft papers, April 15th 2020
Acceptance Notification, May 15th 2020
Camera Ready Papers, June 15th 2020

Journal Opportunities
Best papers of IMAACA 2020 will be invited to submit an extended version to Special Issues of the following International Journals:
• International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling
• International Journal of Food Engineering
• International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management

Indexing
Scopus index the IMAACA proceedings; in addition the I3M proceedings will be submitted for indexing in ISI Conference proceedings Citation Index and Google Scholar.

Access for free the I3M proceedings of previous editions
Conferences Proceedings are available at this link http://www.msc-les.org/proceedings/i3m/index.html

PhD Colloquium
Phd students are invited to submit a paper to the conference and present the result of the paper during the Phd sessions.

Awards
"Gianni Cantice Research Award for Gifted Simulation Students" and the “Norbert Giambiasi Award for Conceptual Modeling Excellence” will be announced during the I3M 2020 Gala Dinner and attributed to the best simulation student applicants. The Gianni Cantice Award is entitled to Col.Cantice as recognition for his long activity in Simulation; the Gianni Cantice Award Winner will receive the Award Certificate and a financial contribution (a free registration for the next I3M conference).
The Norbert Giambiasi Award is entitled to Prof. Norbert Giambiasi as recognition for very highly qualified contribution in Conceptual Modeling and DEVS within International Simulation Community. The Norbert Giambiasi Award Certificate Board selects the paper among best Conceptual Modeling contributions to I3M Conference. If you have a student as co-author in your IMAACA paper the student could be considered for the award

Conference Aim
IMAACA 2020 will bring experts together for the purpose of presenting and discussing all type of application relevant control, automation, supervision, decision and management problems emphasizing the role of model analysis as integral part of the complete design of the automated system. Particularly, it will focus on new concepts, methods, techniques and tools conceived in order to support an integrative interplay of modeling, identification, simulation, system analysis and control theory in all the stages of system design.

Organization Committee
General Co-Chair Sergio Junco, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
General Co-Chair Geneviève Dauphin-Tanguy, École Centrale de Lille, France
Program Chair Loucas Louca, University of Cyprus

Conference Topics
Continuous and Hybrid Systems, Lumped and Distributed Parameter Systems, Switched Systems, Qualitative Modeling, Bond Graph Modeling, Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Methods, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Nonlinear Systems, Large Scale Systems, Order Reduction and Model Simplification, System Identification, Adaptive Control, Expert Systems, Industrial Applications of Advanced Control, Intelligent Control, Multivariable Control, Nonlinear Control, Robust Control, Networked Control Systems, Fault Detection, Process Supervision, Software and Tools, CAD, Education.

Application Areas
Aero and Astro, Agroindustries, Automation, Biomechanics, Prosthetics and Biomedical Engineering, Car Industry, Chemical Engineering and Process Control, Electrical and Power Systems, Distributed Generation and Electrical Microgrids, Smart Grids, Environmental Systems, Food Industry, Integrated Manufacturing, Marine and Off-Shore Control, Mechatronics, Production Industry, Power Electronic Systems, Robotics & Mechanical Systems, Textile Industry, Transportation Systems.

Special and Invited Sessions/Tracks:

• Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognosis of Dynamic Systems
Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Borutzky, Professor, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin, Germany;
Mohand Djeziri, Aix-Marseille University, France.

• Automation and Cognition
Chair: Jean-Marc Mercantini, Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes (UMR CNRS n° 7296), Marseille, France

• Machine Learning for Condition-Based Maintenance (ML4CBM) – Applications to Industrial Assets
Chair: Daniel E. Viassolo, PhD, Group Manager and Principal, Schlumberger.

Contact and Information
For further information please contact Sergio Junco (sjunco@fceia.unr.edu.ar) or imaaca2020@msc-les.org.

We look forward to welcoming you in Athens

Best Regards,
IMAACA 2020 Organization Committee