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SMC2018

The 2018 IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Miyazaki, Japan, October 7- 10, 2018

http://smc2018.org

First Call for Papers
The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2018) will be held in
Miyazaki, Japan. SMC2018 is the flagship conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. It
provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to report up-to-the-minute innovation and
development, summarize the state-of-the-art, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of systems science
and engineering, human machine systems, and cybernetics. The conference theme will open in 2016.
You are invited to participate and submit your contributions to SMC2018. The areas of interest include (but are
not limited to) the following topics:
Systems Science & Engineering
・Systems modelling
・Systems analysis
・Formal methods

General Chairs
Yutaka Hata
University of Hyogo, Japan
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Program Chair
Tadahiro Murata
Kansai University, Japan
Program Vice Chair
Hamido Fujita
Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Technical Program Track Co-Chairs
Systems Science and Engineering
Qiangfu Zhao
University of Aizu, Japan
Human Machine System
Honghai Liu
University of Portsmouth, UK
Cybernetics
Rodney Roberts
Florida State University, USA
Local Arrangement Chair
Koichi Tanno
University of Miyazaki, Japan
Financial Chair
Noboru Takagi
Toyama Prefectural University,
Japan
Special Session Chair
Naoyuki Kubota
Tokyo Metropolitan University,
Japan
Publication Chair
Syoji Kobashi
Universiy of Hyogo, Japan
Chao-Cheng Wu
National Taipei University of
Technology, Taiwan
Industrial Chair
Hiroshi Nakajima,
Omron Corporation, Japan

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSMC.2016.2557497

Human-Machine Systems
・Assistive Technology
・Augmented Cognition
・Brain-based Information
Communications
・Simulation
・Design Methods
・Validation and verification
・Entertainment Engineering
・Human-Computer Interaction
・Engineering lifecycle
・Human Factors
 (definition, development, and
・Human Performance Modeling
deployment)
 
・Human-Machine Cooperation
・Systems management
・Human-Machine Interface and
・Systems engineering processes
Communications
・Web Intelligence and Interaction
・Optimization
 (single objective and multiobjective) ・Information Visualization
・Information Systems for
・Hierarchy of systems
 Design/Marketing
・Interaction
・Virtual and Augmented Reality
・Agent and multi-agent systems
Systems
・Interactive and Digital Media
・Collaboration
・Interactive Design Science and
・Game theory and applications
Engineering
・Conflict resolution
・Kansei (sense/emotion)
・Consensus
Engineering
・Distributed systems
・Medical Informatics
・Multimedia Systems
・Fault tolerance
・Multi-User Interaction
systems
・Production
・Resilience Engineering
・Decision support architectures
・Supervisory Control
・Asset allocation
・Safety
・Social networks
・Team Performance and Training
Systems
・Recommender systems
・User Interface Design
・Robotic Systems
・Wearable Computing

Cybernetics
・Ambient Intelligence

・Artificial Immune Systems
・Artificial Life
・Biometrics

・Bioinformatics

・Computational Intelligence

・Computational Life Science
・Evolutionary Computation
・Expert Systems
・Fuzzy Systems

・Image and Signal Processing
・Knowledge-Based Systems
・Information Assurance

・Intelligent Multimedia Processing
・Intelligent Internet Systems
・Knowledge Acquisition
・Machine Learning
・Machine Vision

・Medical Informatics
・Neural Networks
・Optimization

・Pattern Recognition
・Self-Organization

・Smart Environment
・Swarm Intelligence

March 31, 2018
・ Submission due :
June 1, 2018
・ Notification of acceptance :
July 10, 2018
・ Author registration deadline :
July 20, 2018
・ Camera-ready deadline :
Call for Special Sessions:
Proposals to organize Special Sessions are strongly encouraged. Special Sessions must be related to the
conference theme or especially hot topics within the conference scope. All submitted papers undergo the same
review process, and submission to proposed sessions is not a guarantee of acceptance.
Key Dates:

Call for Contributed Papers:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their full-length papers electronically through the conference
website. Each paper should be concise with sufficient detail and references to allow critical review. Papers
will be reviewed by at least two referees for technical merit and content. Accepted papers will be presented in
oral or poster sessions. All accepted papers which have been presented at SMC 2018 will be published in the
conference proceedings on the IEEE Xplore.
Further Information:
Yutaka Hata, Gneral Chair, University of Hyogo, Japan. E-mail: smc2018@????????.jp
http://www.smc2018.org
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