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21st MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AND AUTOMATION
June 25-28, 2013
Minoa Palace Resort & Spa
Platanias-Chania, Crete - GREECE
General Chairs

Panos Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame
antsaklis.1@nd.edu
Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver
kimon.valavanis@du.edu

Program Chair

Nikos C. Tsourveloudis, Technical University of Crete
nikost@dpem.tuc.gr

Vice Program Chairs

Primo Zingaretti, Università Politecnica delle Marche
p.zingaretti@univpm.it
Luis Moreno, University Carlos III of Madrid
moreno@ing.uc3m.es

Invited Session Chair

Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University
Xenofon.Koutsoukos@vanderbilt.edu

Workshop/Tutorials Chair

Helen Boussalis, California State Univ. Los Angeles
hboussa@exchange.calstatela.edu

Publicity/Webmaster Chair

Matthew J. Rutherford, University of Denver
mjr@cs.du.edu

Publications Chair

Costas S. Tzafestas, National Technical Univ. of Athens
ktzaf@cs.ntua.gr

Local Arrangements Chairs

Lefteris Doitsidis, TEI of Crete,
ldoitsidis@chania.teicrete.gr
Nektarios Heretis, TUC, nek_heretis@dpem.tuc.gr

Registration Chair

Hai Lin, University of Notre Dame
Hai.Lin.24@nd.edu

Finance Chair

Christos Panayiotou, University of Cyprus
christosp@ucy.ac.cy

MED'13 Steering Committee

Abdelouhab Aitouche Manolis Christodoulou
Giuseppe Conte
Theodore E. Djaferis
Petros P. Groumpos Ahmed El Hajjaji
Petros Ioannou
Okyay Kaynak
Frank Lewis
Zalman J. Palmor
Vassilis Petridis
Marios Polycarpou
Joseba Quevedo
Dominique Sauter
Joao J. S. Sentieiro Antonio Tornambe
Anthony Tzes
Zoran Vukic

Financial Sponsor

Mediterranean Control Association (MCA)

Technical Co-Sponsors

IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

For more information about MED'13 contact the
Organizing Committee Chairs.

The 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'13, comes back to its birthplace,
Chania, Crete. MED'13 aims at providing a unique opportunity for the academic and industrial
community, federal and state government, funding agencies, the private sector, qualified representatives
from other organizations, to address new challenges, share solutions and discuss future research
directions in the area of control and automation. Focused interests of diverse groups involved in basic
and applied research and development will be discussed. A broad range of topics will be covered in the
Conference, following current trends of combining control/systems theory with software/communication
technologies, as well as new developments in robotics and mechatronics, with the goal of strengthening
cooperation of control and automation scientists with industry. For information about MED'13, visit
http://med13.du.edu.
MED'13 will be held at the Minoa Palace Resort and Spa (http://www.minoapalace.gr), a luxury five
star beachside resort. The resort is situated in the cosmopolitan area of Platanias, 12km west of the
picturesque town of Chania and about 30 min drive from the Chania International Airport. The resort
offers majestic views of its surrounding countryside and the White Mountains. To the north, the resort
enjoys panoramic views of the endless golden beach of Platanias with the shimmering sapphire blue
Aegean beyond. Guests have immediate access to the sandy beach in front of the resort. For information
about Chania, visit: http://www.chania.edu/tourism and for Greece, visit: http://www.gnto.gr.
MED'13 topics of interest include, but will not be be limited to:
Intelligent transportation systems
Adaptive control
Linear systems
Aerospace control
Marine control
Agents and agent-based systems
Modeling and simulation
Biologically inspired systems, control
Neural networks
Computational Intelligence
Non-linear systems
Computer controlled systems
Optimization
Computing and communications
Petri Nets
Decentralized control
Power systems
Discrete event systems
Predictive control
Distributed systems
Education and training
Process control
Embedded control systems
Real-time control
Fuzzy systems
Robotics
Genetic and evolutionary computation
Robust control
Hybrid systems
Spectral estimation
Image processing
Swarms
Industrial automation, manufacturing
Unmanned Systems
Intelligent control systems
Virtual reality
IMPORTANT DATES: The Program Committee is soliciting contributed technical papers for
presentation at the Conference and publication in the Conference Proceedings, as well as proposals for
invited sessions/papers/talks by topic of interest. Accepted papers will appear in the conference digital
proceedings and in IEEE Explore.
February 1, 2013: Contributed papers, invited session proposals,
Workshop / Tutorial proposals, Due.
April 15, 2013:
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection.
April 30, 2013:
Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due.
PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically using https://controls.papercept.net.
The guidelines are given at the MED'13 Web site. Full papers should be submitted in standard IEEE
double-column format for conferences. The first page of the paper, centered on the top below the top
margin, should include the paper title, the authors' names and their affiliations, an abstract, and
keywords. Six pages are allowed for each paper. Up to two additional pages will be permitted for a
charge of €125 per additional page. Illustrations and references are included in the page count. Submitted
papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the Program Chairs.
Invited Sessions: A Summary Statement describing the motivation and relevance of the proposed
session, invited paper titles and author names must be e-mailed by the organizer(s) to the Invited
Sessions Chair by February 1, 2013. Authors must submit full versions of invited papers electronically.
Each such paper must be marked as 'Invited Session Paper'.
Workshops - Tutorials: Proposals for workshops - tutorials should contain the title of the session, the
list of speakers, and extended summaries (2000 words) of their presentations. Proposals must be sent by
e-mail to the Workshop/Tutorials Chair by February 1, 2013.

http://med13.du.edu http://www.minoapalace.gr http://www.chania.edu/tourism http://www.gnto.gr https://controls.papercept.net

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