The 2012 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON 2012) “Sustainable Development through Humanitarian Technology”

November 19-22, 2012
Cebu, PHILIPPINES
http://www.tencon2012.org
secretariat@tencon2012.org

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This is the Second Call for Papers for
“The 2012 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON 2012)”
which is going to be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cebu, PHILIPPINES, on November 19-22, 2012.

ORGANIZED BY:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 10 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Republic of the Philippines Section

TECHNICALLY CO-SPONSORED BY:
IEEE Computer and Communications Society Philippines Joint Chapter IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Philippines Chapter

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Online Paper Submission Opens: March 1, 2012
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012
* Notification of Acceptance: July 12, 2012
* Camera Ready Submission: August 16, 2012
* Author and Early Bird Registration: September 1, 2012
* Tutorial Proposals: June 30, 2012
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The IEEE TENCON 2012 is a premier international technical conference of IEEE Region 10 (R10), the Asia Pacific Region.

The IEEE R10 consists of 57 Sections, 6 Councils, 21 Sub-sections, 583 student branches and over 500 Chapters. With a membership of 73,000, it is one of the largest regions in the IEEE. Held annually since 1980, TENCON provides an important forum for researchers and engineers from industry, and professors and graduate students from the academia to network and to discuss new ideas and development in emerging areas of electrical and electronic engineering, computers science and related topics. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings.

TENCON 2012 will be held in the historic island of Cebu, Philippines from November 19-22, 2012 at Radisson Blu Hotel. The conference will feature plenary and invited talks by eminent scientists and engineers, tutorials, paper presentations, poster sessions and industrial exhibits. Invited speakers shall discuss the latest developments on advancing technology for humanity – a major theme of the IEEE.

The oldest city in the Philippines and known as the “Queen City of the South”, Cebu City combines the thrills of a bustling metropolis with the charm and coziness of a small tropical town. Home to pristine tropical beaches, sweet mangoes, rattan and buri furniture, costume jewelry, native handicrafts and modern industrial technology parks, Cebu City offers the perfect venue for TENCON 2012.


SCOPE

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:

*Power and Energy
Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Renewable Energy Sources and Technology, Power System Operation, Control and Protection, Power System Economics, Power System Planning, Conservation and Energy Efficient Technologies, Smart Grid Technology

*Power Electronics
AC-DC and DC-DC Converters, Electric Motor Drives, Inverters, Power Electronics Devices and Components, Converter Modeling, Simulation and Control, Power Electronics Applications, Power System Applications of Power Electronics

*Signal Processing
Media (Text, Speech, Audio, Image, Video) Processing, Multidimensional Signal Processing, Biomedical & Genomic Signal Processing, Image and Video Coding, Indexing and Retrieval, Array Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Blind Signal Processing, Multimedia Security

*Circuits and Systems
VLSI System and Applications, Systems on Chip, Analog Circuits and Systems, Digital Circuits and Systems, Consumer Electronics, Nanotechnology, Wireless Communication Circuits and Systems, Design Automation, Optoelectronic Circuits, Biomedical Electronics

*Computing Architectures and Systems
Advance Computer Architectures and Systems, Application Specific, Architectures and Systems, Parallel Processor Architectures and Systems, Wearable Computing and Applications, Embedded Architectures, Distributed and Pervasive Systems, Human-Machine Interface, Sensor Networks, Traffic Control, Network Security Computer Security

*Computational Intelligence
Bio-inspired Computing, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Computing, Fuzzy Logic,
Membrane Computing, Neural Networks, Neuroinformatics, Support Vector
Machines and Kernel Methods, Unconventional and Natural Computing

*Networks and Communications
Optical Communications, Wireless Communications, Wired and Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Traffic Engineering & QoS, Network and Transport Protocols, Mobility Management, Cloud and Peer-to-Peer computing, Network Security

*Robotics and Mechatronics
Human-friendly Welfare Robots, Biomedical Robots, Agricultural, Environmental Robots, Educational and Entertaining Robots

*Software and Database Systems
Software Specifications, Architecture, Design, Analysis and Testing, Software Security, Safety and Reliability, Operating Systems and Programming Environments, Distributed System Software and Middleware, Mobile and Embedded System Software, Database and Data Mining, Data Warehousing and OLAP, Management of Streaming Data, Metadata & XML, Database Security

*Humanitarian Technology
Disaster Warning and Response; Water Planning, Availability and Quality; Power for Off-Grid Users, Connectivity and Communications Technologies for Remote Locations, Educational Technologies, Agricultural Technologies, Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities

*Women in Engineering
Careers and Life Transitions as Women Engineers, Careers in Professional Fields, Inclusion and Cultural Awareness, Management and Strategy, Outreach, Women's and Gender Studies

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Paper submission starts on March 1, 2012 and will be managed through
EDAS: http://edas.info/12119. Paper length should be a maximum of six (6) pages including figures, tables, references, and appendices. Please use the standard IEEE conference proceedings templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX format on A4 size pages founded at

http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html.

All papers submitted in the conference will undergo rigid peer review process. Accepted papers will be published in the TENCON 2012 Conference Proceedings and in IEEE Xplore, for which at least one author is required to register for the conference at the full rate.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:
* Jose B. Cruz

Organizing Chairs:
* Elmer P. Dadios (De La Salle University, Philippines)
* Joel S. Marciano Jr. (University of the Philippines, Philippines)

Technical Program Committee:
* Marcelo H. Ang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
* Supavadee Aramvith (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
* Rhandley D. Cajote (University of the Philippines, Philippines)
* Rene Cruz (University of California San Diego, USA)
* Eryk Dutkiewicz (Macquarie University, Australia)
* Rowena Cristina L. Guevara (University of the Philippines, Philippines)
* Yoshikazu Miyanaga (Hokkaido University, Japan)
* Michael Angelo A. Pedrasa (University of the Philippines, Philippines)
* Jhoanna Rhodette I. Pedrasa (University of the Philippines, Philippines)

International Advisory Board
* Alvin Culaba (De La Salle University, Philippines)
* Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
* Kaoru Hirota (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
* Fakhrieddine Karray (University of Waterloo, Canada)
* Marzuki Khalid (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
* Oussama Khatib (Stanford University, USA)
* Jong-Hwan Kim (KAIST, Korea)
* Janina Mazierska (James Cook University, Australia)
* Yoshikazu Miyanaga (Hokkaido University, Japan)
* Raouf Naguib (Coventry University, U.K.)
* Yong Jin Park (Hanyang University, South Korea)
* Lawrence Wong (National University of Singapore)