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Call for Papers

24th MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AND AUTOMATION
http://www.med2016.org
JUNE 21-24, 2016

DIVANI CARAVEL HOTEL
ATHENS, GREECE, GR-16121
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Joseba Quevedo, Chair
Abdel Aitouche
Stjepan Bogdan
Giuseppe Conte
Theodore E. Djaferis
Laura Giarré
Ahmed El Hajjaji
Petros Ioannou
Frank Lewis
Didier Maquin
Victor Fernando Muñoz
Zalman J. Palmor
Vassilis Petridis
Marios Polycarpou
Dominique Sauter
Antonio Tornambe
Zoran Vukic
ADVISORY COMMITTEE - GREECE
Petros Groumpos, Chair
Zoe Doulgeri
Spilios Fassois
Elias Kosmatopoulos Olga Kosmidou
Kostas Kyriakopoulos Evangelos Papadopoulos
Vassilis Petridis
George Rovithakis
Nikos Tsourveloudis
Anthony Tzes
Chryssostomos Stylios George Papageorgiou
GENERAL CHAIRS
Panos J. Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame
antsaklis.1@nd.edu
Kimon P. Valavanis, University of Denver
kimon.valavanis@du.edu
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Didier Theilliol, University of Lorraine
Didier.Theilliol@univ-lorraine.fr
Anthony Tzes, University of Patras
tzes@ece.upatras.gr
PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS
George Nikolakopoulos, Luleå U. of Technology
geonik@ltu.se
Horst Schulte, HTW Berlin
horst.schulte@htw-berlin.de
INVITED AND SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR
Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University
a.tsourdos@cranfield.ac.uk
TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP CHAIR
Matthew J. Rutherford, University of Denver
mjr@cs.du.edu
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Kostas Tzafestas, National Technical University of
Athens - ktzaf@cs.ntua.gr
PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
George Fourlas, Technological Educational
Institute of Central Greece - gfourlas@teiste.gr
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Maja Matijasevic, University of Zagreb
maja.matijasevic@fer.hr
REGISTRATION AND FINANCE CHAIR
Dina Fragkedaki, University of Denver
fragkedaki@gmail.com

Mediterranean Control Association Information:
www.med-control.org
MCA Previous Conferences Information:
http://med-control.org/index_Conferences.php

The 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'16, is returning to Athens, Greece, and the
luxurious Divani Caravel Hotel (http://divanicaravelhotel.com). Athens is a metropolitan and cosmopolitan city, the
capital of Greece, the birthplace of Democracy, the city with the worldwide known "Acropolis and Parthenon", with
the famous Theater of Herodes Atticus and the marble stadium where the first modern times Olympic Games
took place in 1896, home of Socrates, Plato, Pericles (Golden Age), and home of the 2004 Olympic Games.
Athens is both an "ancient" and a "modern" city, in which visitors can walk safely and enjoy the rich, almost 5,000
year old history, it has to offer. For information about Greece, see: http://www.visitgreece.gr or
http://greeklandscapes.com.
The theme of MED'16 centers on control and automation challenges and opportunities in the 21st
century and on control of autonomous systems. MED'16 spans four full days: June 21 is devoted to Tutorials
and Workshops, followed by the three day technical conference on June 22-24, 2016. The conference, through
its technical program and keynote presentations, will provide a unique opportunity for the academic, research and
industrial community to address new challenges, share solutions and discuss future research directions. A broad
range of topics is proposed, following the current trends of combining control and systems theory with
hardware/software and communication technologies, as well as new developments in robotics and mechatronics,
autonomous systems, unmanned systems, cyber physical systems, network controlled systems, with the goal of
strengthening cooperation of control and automation scientists with industry. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
Adaptive Control
Aerospace Control
Agents/Agent-based Systems
Autonomous Systems
Autonomy
Biologically Inspired Systems
Computational Intelligence
Computer Aided Control System Design
Computer Controlled Systems
Communication Systems
Cooperative Systems Control
Cyber Physical Systems
Decentralized Control
Digital Control Systems
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Distributed Parameter Systems
Disturbance Rejection
Education and Training
Embedded Control Systems

Energy Efficient Systems
Event-Based Systems
Fault-tolerant Control
Formation Control
Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Hybrid Systems
Image Processing
Industrial Automation, Manufacturing
Integrated Control and Diagnostics
Intelligent Control
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Linear Systems
Marine Control
Mechatronic Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Network Controlled Systems
Neural Networks
Non-linear Systems

Optimization
Petri Nets
Power Systems
Predictive control
Process control
Prognostics and Diagnostics
Real-time Control
Robotics
Robotic Teams
Robust Control
Smart Grid
Soft Computing
Spectral Estimation
Swarms
System Identification
Uncertain Systems
Unmanned Systems
Verification and Validation
Virtual and Augmented Reality

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES
February 1, 2016:
Full Papers / Invited Sessions / Tutorial Proposals Due
April 15, 2016:
Acceptance / Rejection Notification
May 6, 2016:
Upload Final, Camera Ready Papers
April 15 - May 6, 2016:
Early Registration
PAPER SUBMISSION
The Program Chairs are soliciting contributed technical papers for presentation at the Conference and publication
in the Conference Digital Proceedings. All papers must be submitted and uploaded electronically. Go to
https://controls.papercept.net. Click on the link "Submit a Contribution to MED'16" and follow the steps. The
paper format must follow IEEE paper submission rules, two-column format using 12 point fonts, Times New
Roman. The maximum number of pages per submitted paper is 6. Up to two additional pages will be permitted
for a charge of 100 € per additional page. Illustrations and references are included in the page count. Invited and
Special Sessions: Proposals for invited and special sessions by topic of interest must be submitted and
uploaded electronically. A Summary Statement describing the motivation and relevance of the proposed session,
invited paper titles and author names must be uploaded electronically by February 1, 2016. In addition, authors
must submit FULL versions of invited papers electronically, through https://controls.papercept.net. 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 uploaded electronically, as well as sent by e-mail to the Tutorial and Workshop
Chair by February 1, 2016. Paper Review Process: All submitted papers will undergo a peer review process
coordinated by the Program Chairs, Advisory Committee Members, IPC members and qualified reviewers.
Authors will be notified of results at the latest by April 15, 2016. Accepted papers must be uploaded electronically
no later than May 6, 2016. Authors are encouraged to accompany their presentations with multimedia material
(i.e., videos), which will be included in the Conference Digital Proceedings. Accepted and presented papers will
be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and
Indexing (A&I) databases. For information and details about the Conference, contact by e-mail the General
or Program Chairs, or visit the conference website at http://www.med2016.org.
http://www.med2016.org http://www.divanicaravelhotel.com http://www.visitgreece.gr http://www.greeklandscapes.com https://controls.papercept.net https://controls.papercept.net http://www.med-control.org http://www.med-control.org/index_Conferences.php http://www.med2016.org
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