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http://ieeesmc2021.org/
Deadlines
Submission of proposals for Special Sessions:
February 15, 2021
The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2021), is the flagship conference
of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. It provides an international forum for researchers, educators
and practitioners to learn, share knowledge, report most recent innovations and developments, and to exchange Acceptance notification of Special Sessions:
ideas and advances in all aspects of systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and cybernetics.
March 15, 2021
IEEE SMC 2021 will be held in Australia's cultural capital, Melbourne. Contributions to theory and practice,
including but not limited to, the following technical areas, are invited:

Systems Science & Engineering

Human-Machine Systems

Cybernetics

Autonomy/Autonomous Systems
Conflict Resolution
Consumer/Industrial Applications
Control of Uncertain Systems
Cooperative Systems and Control
Decision Support Systems
Digital Twins, Digital Thread
Discrete Event Systems
Distributed Intelligent Systems
Enterprise Information Systems
Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis
Haptically-Enabled Robotics
Homeland Security
Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0
Infrastructure Systems & Services
Intelligent Green Production Systs.
Intelligent Power/Energy Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Large-Scale Systems of Systems
Micro and/or Nano Systems
Multi-Agent Systems
Quality/Reliability Engineering
Robotic Systems
Service Systems & Organization
Smart Buildings and Infrastructures
Smart Metering, Smart Cities
Smart Sensor Networks/IoT
System Modeling and Control
Technology Assessment
Tele-robotics and Tele-operation
Transdisciplinary Research

Assistive Technology
Augmented Cognition
Biometrics and Applications
Brain-Machine Interface Systems
Cognitive Computing
Companion Technology
Cooperative Work in Design
Entertainment Engineering
Environmental Sensing,
Networking & Decision-Making
Haptic Systems
Human-Centered Transportation
Human-Collaborative Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Machine Cooperation
Human Factors
Human Perception in Multimedia
Human Performance Modeling
Information Systems for Design
and Marketing
Interactive and Digital Media
Kansei Engineering
Medical Informatics
Multimedia Systems
Resilience Engineering
Shared Control
Systems Safety and Security
Team Performance & Training
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Visual Analytics/Communication
Wearable Computing

AI and Machine Learning
Artificial Immune Systems & ALife
Awareness Computing
Big Data Computing
Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems
Cognitive Situation Management
Computational Cybernetics
Computational Collective Intelligence
Computational Life Science
Computational Psychophysiology
Cyber-Medical Systems
CyberMatics
Cybernetics for Cyber-Physical Systems
Evolving Intelligent Systems
Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems
Granular Computing
Information Assurance & Intelligent
Multimedia-Mobile Communications
Image Processing/Pattern Recognition
Intelligent Industrial Systems
Intelligent Internet Systems
Intelligent Vehicular Systems & Control
Knowledge Acquisition
Machine Vision
Medical Informatics
Quantum Cybernetics & Quantum ML
Self-Organization
Social and Economic Security
Social Computing & Social Intelligence
Soft Computing
Swarm Intelligence & Engineering

Submission of Regular Papers, Industrial
Papers, and Tutorial and Workshop
proposals: April 5, 2021

Acceptance Notification for Tutorials and
Workshops: April 26, 2021
Acceptance Notification for Regular, Special
Session, and Industrial Papers:
May 24, 2021
Final camera-ready Regular, Special Session,
Industrial and Workshop Papers:
July 12, 2021
Deadline for early registration:
August 2, 2021
General Chair: Saeid Nahavandi, Australia
General Co-Chair
Peng Shi, Australia
Edward Tunstel, USA

Program Chair: Anthony Maciejewski
Program Co-Chairs: Lance Fung, David Kaber,
Zhi Wei
Publication Co-Chairs: Honghai Liu, Abbas
Khosravi, Peter Xu
Awards Co-Chairs: Dimitar Filev, Larry Hall,
Philip Chen
Regular Papers
Publicity Co-Chairs: Maria Pia Fanti, Xiaojie
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers electronically through the conference website. Papers (6 pages) Su, Tadahiko Murata, Laxmidhar Behera
should be concise but contain sufficient details and references to allow critical review. Papers will be reviewed by at least two Special Session Co-Chairs: Daoyi Dong,
referees for technical merit and content.
Xiaolong Wang, Parham Kebria, Sam Kwong
Industrial Co-Chairs: Chris Nemeth, Yutaka
Special Sessions Papers
Hata, Mehran Motamed Ektesabi, Keith Hipel
Special Sessions provide a focused discussion of new and innovative topics. Special Session proposers should download the
Poster Co-Chairs: Darius Nahavandi, Alireza
special session proposal template from the SMC 2021 website and submit the completed proposal to the Special Sessions
Sadeghian
Chairs. Special Session organizers should collect at least eight papers. All submitted papers undergo the same
Finance Co-Chairs: Ferat Sahin, Syed Salaken
review process, and submission to proposed sessions is not a guarantee of acceptance.
Registration Co-Chairs: Haibin Zhu, György
Industrial Papers
Eigner, Asim Bhatti
These contributions are intended to promote contributions from industries on technology development, innovations and
Submission Co-Chairs: Denny Oetomo, Wang
implementations, which will facilitate collaboration between industrial and academic members of the SMC community.
Xin, Dmitry Goldgof, Shady Mohamed
Tutorial Co-Chairs: Ching-Chih Tsai, Abdollah
Workshop and Tutorial Papers
Homaifar, Navid Mohajer
These contributions are intended to promote contributions from applied research and applications, including work in
Exhibition and Donation Co-Chairs: Vinod
progress and facilitate increased collaboration between industrial and academic members of the SMC community.
Puri, Mo Jamshidi
Workshop Co-Chairs: Chin-Wang W Tao,
Mozafar Saadat, Houshyar Asadi, Chao Shen
Contact: General Chair
Program Co-Chairs for Quality Control/
Assurance: Giancarlo Fortino, Thomas
Saeid Nahavandi
Strasser
saeid.nahavandi@ieee.org or
Local Organising Committee: Saeid
Conference secretary: Syed Salaken
Nahavandi, Lance Fung, Daoyi Dong, Denny
Oetomo, Asim Bhatti, Darius Nahavandi, Syed
syed.salaken@deakin.edu.au
Salaken, Parham Kebria, Vinod Puri, Mehran
Motamed Ektesabi

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