Subject: ICINCO 2004 - PC List and Call for Participation ** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luis Antonio Aguirre, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Frank Allgöwer, University of Stuttgart, Germany Péter Arató, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Artur Arsénio, LCS M.I.T, U.S.A. Hajime Asama, University of Tokyo, Japan Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Mark Balas, University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A. Aldo Balestrino, University of Pisa, Italy Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Ruth Bars, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Alberto Bemporad, University of Siena, Italy Andreas Birk, International University Bremen, Germany David Bonyuet, Delta Search Labs, U.S.A. Patrick Boucher, Service Automatique, Supelec, France Abhay Bulsari, Nonlinear Solutions Oy, Finland Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, U.K. Kevin Burn, University of Sunderland, U.K. Clifford R. Burrows, University of Bath, U.K. Martin Buss, Technical University of Munich, Germany Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon/Uninova, Portugal Marco Campi, University of Brescia, Italy Javier Fernández de Cañete, University of Malaga, Spain Jorge L. Martins de Carvalho, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Christos G. Cassandras, Boston University, U.S.A. Raja Chatila, LAAS-CNRS, France Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta, Canada Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, U.S.A. Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Agriculture, Poland Henrik I. Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico José Cordeiro, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal Luis Correia, FC - University of Lisbon, Portugal João Paulo Costeira, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Carlos Couto, University of Minho, Portugal Yechiel Crispin, Embry-Riddle University, U.S.A. Luis Custódio, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karsruhe, Germany Denis Dochain, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium António Dourado, FCTUC - University of Coimbra, Portugal Wlodzislaw Duch, Nicholaus Copernicus University, Poland Heinz H. Erbe, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Ali Feliachi, West Virginia University, U.S.A. David Dagan Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Jean-Louis Ferrier, University of Angers, France Nicola J. Ferrier, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa, Electric Research Institute, Mexico Florin Gheorghe Filip, National Institute for R&D in Informatics, Romania John Gray, University of Salford, U.K. Joaquim Filipe, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal Colin Fyfe, University of Paisley, U.K. Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Adolfo Steiger Garção, FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal Lazea Gheorghe, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Fathi H. Ghorbel, Rice University, U.S.A Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, U.S.A Andrew Goldenberg, University of Toronto, Canada Luis Gomes, New University of Lisbon / Uninova, Portugal Jorge Gonçalves, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A John Gray, University of Salford, U.K. Thomas Gustafsson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Wolfgang Halang, University of Hagen, Germany John Hallam, The University of Edinburgh, U.K. Riad Ibrahim Hammoud, Delphi-Delco & Indiana University, U.S.A. Uwe Hanebeck, Institute of Computer Design and Fault Tolerance, Germany Dominik Henrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany João Pedro Hespanha, University of California, U.S.A. Weng Khuen Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore Atsushi Imiya, Chiba University, Japan Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Ray Jarvis, Monash University, Australia Karel Jezernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Ben Jonker, University of Twente, The Netherlands Gabriel Juhas, K. U. Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany Nicos Karcanias, City University, U.K. Fakhreddine Karray, University of Waterloo, Canada Tohru Katayama, Kyoto University, Japan Dusko Katic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Yugoslavia Lydia E. Kavraki, Rice University, U.S.A. Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey Uwe Kiencke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden Rudibert King, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Michel Kinnaert, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Nadir Ould Khessal, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Hannu Koivisto, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Jozef Korbicz, University of Zielona Gora, Poland Bart Kosko, University of Southern California, U.S.A. Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tokohu University, Japan Zdenko Kovacic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University, U.S.A. Fátima Silva Leite, ISR/FCTUC - University of Coimbra, Portugal Jesse Leitner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S.A. Frank Lewis, The University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A. Gordon Lightbody, University College Cork, Ireland Jan Ligus, Technical University of Ko^Úice, Slovakia Zongli Lin, University of Virginia, U.S.A Lennart Ljungn, Linköping University, Sweden Joachim Lückel, University of Paderborn, Germany Bruno Maione, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Frederic Maire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Om Malik, University of Calgary, Canada Jacek Mañdziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Margareth Simões Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil Max Meng, University of Alberta, Canada Basil G. Mertzios, Democritus Univerity of Thrace, Greece Arturo Molina, CSIM-ITESM, Mexico Eugenio Aguirre Molina, University of Granada, Spain Laszlo Monostori, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Manfred Morari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Vladimír Mostýn, Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic David J. Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow, U.K. Kenneth R. Muske, Villanova University, U.S.A. Sergiu Nedevschi, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Hendrik Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Nottingham, U.K. Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete, Greece Thomas Parisini, DEEI - University of Trieste, Italy Gabriella Pasi, Italian National Research Council, Italy Carlos Pereira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Marco A. Arteaga Pérez, Autonomous National University of Mexico, Mexico Joaquim Norberto Pires, University of Coimbra, Portugal Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Marie-Noelle Pons, Lab. Chemical Engineering Sciences/CNRS, France Omer F. Rana, University of Waikato, New Zealand John Reed, Silsoe Research Institute, U.K. Maria Isabel Ribeiro, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Robert C. Richardson, University of Manchester, U.K. John Ringwood, National University of Ireland, Ireland Thomas Rist, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Brian Roffel, University of Twente, The Netherlands Agostinho Rosa, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Danilo De Rossi, Interdepartmental Center "E.Piaggio", Italy António E. B. Ruano, University of Algarve, Portugal Antonio Sala, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain Ricardo Sanz, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain Nilanjan Sarkar, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A. Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada Carsten W. Scherer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Klaus Schilling, University of Würzburg, Germany João Sentieiro, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal João Silva Sequeira, ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Rodolfo Soncini Sessa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples, Italy Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada Mark W. Spong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. Johan Stahre, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gerrit van Straten, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Mario Sznaier, The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A Stanislaw Tarasiewicz, University of Laval, Canada Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, University of Milan, Italy Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Lena Valavani, M.I.T, U.S.A. Nicolas Kemper Valverde, Autonomous Nacional University of Mexico, Mexico Marc M. Van Hulle, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A Ljubisa Vlacic, Griffith University, Australia Axel Walthelm, University of Lübeck, Germany Jun Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Alex Yakovlev, University of Newcastle, U.K. Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, U.S.A. Shuji Yoshizawa, Saitama University, Japan Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, U.S.A. Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Detlef Zuehlke, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany AUXILIARY REVIEWERS Helder Araújo, Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Portugal Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, University of Toronto, Canada Carlos Bispo , ISR/IST - Technical University of Lisbon , Portugal Feng Chu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Istvan Harmati, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Ward Irene, Polytechnic , Finland S. Janardhanan, IDP in Systems and Control Eng., IIT Bombay, India Bing Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Changchun Liu, Vanderbilt University, USA Arun Mahindrakar, IDP in Systems and Control Eng., IIT Bombay, India T. C. Manjunath, IDP in Systems and Control Eng., IIT Bombay, India Urbano Nunes, Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Portugal Pramila Rani, Vanderbilt University, USA Bernardete Ribeiro, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal Asghar Roufi, University of Toronto, Canada V. Sankaranarayanan, IDP in Systems and Control Engg., IIT Bombay, India Haixiang Shi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Ronald Singh, University of Toronto, Canada Shashi Thutupalli, University of Toronto, Canada Michelle Vaasa, Polytechnic , Finland Jiyun Zhao, China University of Mining and Technology, P.R. of China ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ ICINCO 2004 Call for Participation ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ Dear colleague, ICINCO-2004 ("International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics") will be held in Setúbal (Portugal), on August 25-28. Please check the conference website below for more information: http://www.icinco.org The conference is held in collaboration with some world class prestigious associations including AAAI, ACM and APPIA, and is also co-sponsored by IFAC and IEEE Control Systems Society Furthermore, we are happy to inform you that the conference program includes six keynote lectures that will be presented by distinguished international researchers, three Tutorials and two satellite Workshops. The regular sessions cover three main areas: - Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization - Robotics and Automation - Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control In order to promote the development of professional networks, the conference program includes social events such as a Welcome Reception in the evening of 25 August 2004 (Wednesday) and a guided tour followed by a Social Dinner in the evening of 27 October 2004 (Friday). The members of the Organizing Committee are looking forward to welcoming you and to meeting you in Setúbal, Portugal in 25-28 August, 2004. ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ KEYNOTE LECTURES (http://www.icinco.org/Keynote%20Lectures.htm) Keynote 1: Robot-Human Interaction: practical experiments with a cyborg and a multsensory robot head Prof. Kevin Warwick DSc (Eng), C Eng, FIEE, FCGI ^Ö UK. Keynote 2: Real-world Industrial Applications of Artificial Neural Networks, Illusion or Reality?" Prof. Kurosh Madani, University Paris XII - France. Keynote 3: The Digital Factory - Planning and Simulation of Production Lines in Automotive Industry Prof. Dr.-Ing. F. Wolfgang Arndt, Fachhochschule Konstanz ^Ö Germany. Keynote 4: What's real in "real-time control systems"? : Applying real-time rule-based systems and formal verification methods to control systems and robotics. Dr. Albert Cheng, University of Houston ^Ö USA. Keynote 5: Toward Machines with Emotional Intelligence Prof. Rosalind W. Picard, MIT ^Ö USA. Keynote 6: Control of Stochastic Linear Hybrid Systems under Communication / Computational Constraints Eng. Nuno Cintra Martins, MIT ^Ö USA. ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ TUTORIALS: (http://www.icinco.org/Tutorials.htm) Tutorial 1: Artificial Neural Networks: data preparation techniques and application development Waseem Asrar Ahmed, NED University of Engineering & Technology - Pakistan Tutorial 2: MEMS enabled Microsystems: Cogent sensing and intelligent applications Dr. Elena Gaura, Coventry University - U.K Dr. Robert Newman, Coventry University - U.K Tutorial 3: WAVE-WP (World Processing) Technology Dr. Peter S. Sapaty, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems, National Academy of Sciences - Ukraine Dr. Masanori Sugisaka - Oita University, Japan ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ SATELLITE WORKSHOPS: (http://www.icinco.org/Workshops.htm) 1st International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks: data preparation techniques and application development (ANNs 2004) 1st International Workshop on e-learning and Virtual and Remote Laboratories (VIRTUAL-LAB^Ò2004)"