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Sep 12, 2017 7:00 am - Sep 15, 2017 6:00 pm EEST

22nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies And Factory Automation

The ETFA conference series is the prime and largest IEEE-sponsored event dedicated to emerging technologies in industrial automation. Since the first edition 1992 in Melbourne, Australia, the ETFA conference series has evolved to one of the largest and most important IEEE conferences dedicated to industrial and factory automation - presenting new research results at the cutting edge of emerging technologies in applications in diverse areas of industrial automation, as well as providing a discussion forum for professionals from academia and industry alike.

Technical content of the ETFA conference series reflects rapid evolution of the industrial automation field and the ever increasing impact of the underpinning research and development on the advances in the industrial automation.

Since 1992, the ETFA conferences have been hosted by some of the leading academic and research establishments including University of Tokyo, University of Hawaii, University of California at Los Angeles, INRIA-France, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Czech Republic University of Prague, University of Patras, Helmut-Schmidt University (Hamburg), Universitat de les Illes Balears, Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse), University of Luxembourg, and Fraunhofer IOSB-INA to mention some.

Topics within the scope of the conference include:

  • Information Technology in Automation
  • Industrial Communication Technologies and Systems
  • Real-Time and (Networked) Embedded Systems [RTNES]
  • Automated Manufacturing Systems
  • Industrial Control
  • Computer Vision, Computational Intelligence, and Modern Heuristics in Automation
  • Intelligent Robots & Systems
  • Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing
  • Complex Engineering Systems and Systems Engineering
  • Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Networked Systems

Committees

General Co-Chairs

  • Christoforos Hadjicostis,University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Richard Zurawski,ISA Group, USA

Program Committee Co-Chairs

  • Charalambos D. Charalambous,Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Cristian Mahulea,Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain

Work-in-Progress Co-Chairs

  • Charis Theocharides,Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Lukasz Wisniewski,Institute Industrial IT/OWL University, Germany

Special Sessions Co-Chairs

  • Alberto Ortiz,Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
  • Lucia Seno,CNR-IEIIT, Italy

Tutorials Co-Chairs

  • Khadidja Chaib Draa,Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Herminio Martinez,UPC, Spain

Workshops Co-Chairs

  • Holger Flatt,Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, Germany
  • Marina Indri,Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Financial Co-Chairs

  • George Ellinas,University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Marek Miskowicz,AGH UST, Poland

Local Organizing Committee Chair

  • Christos Panayiotou,University of Cyprus, Cyprus

ETFA Series Steering Committee:

  • A. Fay,Helmut-Schmidt University, Germany
  • A. Grau,UPC, Spain
  • J. Jasperneite,Fraunhoffer, Germany
  • Z. Mammeri,Univ. of Toulouse 3, France
  • M. Miskowicz,AGH UST, Poland
  • C. Seatzu,Univ. of Cagliari, Italy
  • H. Voss,Univ. of Luxembourg
  • R. Zurawski,ISA Group, USA (Chair)

ETFA Series Advisory Committee:

  • E. Dekenuvel,Univ. of Nice, France
  • J. M. Fuertes,UPC, Spain
  • H. Fujita,Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  • L. Gomes,UNINOVA, Portugal
  • F. Harashima,Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
  • C.-J. Kim,UCLA, USA
  • S. Koubias,Univ. of Patras, Greece
  • K. Lee,Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
  • M. Marcos,Univ. of Basque Country
  • V. Marik,Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague,
  • A. Weaver,Univ. of Virginia, USA