Papers are invited on the following topics, but not limited to;

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

- 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

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


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