CALL FOR PAPERS 4th IEEE MEDITERRANEAN SYMPOSIUM ON CONTROL & AUTOMATION JUNE 10-14, 1996 LOUIS MALEME BEACH HOTEL, MALEME CHANIA, CRETE, GREECE The central themes of the IEEE Mediterranean Symposium are Control and Automation. The Symposium covers a wide range of topics including System Theory, Robust and Adaptive Systems, Intelligent and Autonomous Control, and Robotics and Automation. The objective of the Symposium is to present and discuss recent theoretical developments in Control and Automation, as well as applications in industrial automation and elsewhere. The aim is to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds and different countries to identify open problems and future research directions. Papers having a blend of theory and practical applications are particularly sought. IMPORTANT DATES February 15, 1996: Full Papers and Proposals Due April 1, 1996: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 25, 1996: Hotel Registration Due May 10, 1996: Advance Conference Registration Due May 15, 1996: Final Camera-Ready Papers Due WWW HOME PAGE The URL for the WWW home page for further information is http://www.acim.usl.edu/MSCA96/ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS V. Kucera, Director, Inst. of Inf. Theory and Automation, Czech Academy I. W. Sandberg, Dept. Elect. and Comp. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin PAPER SUBMISSION FIVE copies of the FULL PAPER must be received for peer review by one of the Program Co-Chairs by 15 Feb. 1996. Papers will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 1 April 1996. The final camera-ready papers must be received by the Publications Chair no later than 15 May 1996. SPECIAL SESSIONS, TUTORIALS, & PANEL DISCUSSIONS Four copies of proposals for: invited sessions, including extended abstracts and a cover letter indicating the scope of the proposed session; or tutorials, including a detailed outline of the proposed topic, must be submitted to either Program Co-Chair by 15 Feb. 1996. Invited sessions may include survey papers and possibly a panel discussion. Tutorials will be held on Sunday, June 9, 1996. Proposals for Panel Discussions will also be received with great interest. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES Submitted papers will be reviewed by two referees, with accepted papers being published in a Proceedings that will be available to registrants at the Symposium. In keeping with past policy, after an additional review, selected papers will be published in journal special issues (last year's special issues appeared in "Kybernetika" and "J. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing".) ABOUT CRETE Crete is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean. Its mountains are in excess of 2400 m. high, so that the winter snows melt throughout the spring making it a fertile land producing olives, almonds, oranges, grapes, and other fruits. Cretan wine is excellent. The steep mountainsides are furrowed with deep gorges that run down to the sea; Samaria Gorge is the deepest in Europe. As a centrally located island, Crete has been a nexus of civilization and trade in the Mediterranean for at least 6000 years. The Minoan civilization, with city-states at Knossos and Phaestos, had close ties to the Egyptian and Hittite civilizations as well as the eastern Mediterranean and the Peloponnesus. TRAVEL Local Arrangements and Symposium travel will be handled by the official agent: Ge-eS Tours Chania Ltd. P. O. Box 73133, Chania, Crete, Greece Fax: +30 821 43243, Phone: +30 821 58307 Mata Touli-Thimianou, General Manager The Louis Maleme Beach Hotel is towards the west end of Crete approximately 45 minutes west of Chania airport by rental car. Flights also arrive at Heraklion near the middle of Crete's north coast. The drive from Heraklion west to Chania is about 2 hours. However, Knossos and other sites are near Heraklion, so that a good plan might be to fly into Chania, rent a car to drive to Maleme, and then after the symposium fly out of Heraklion, leaving a day or two for touring. Boats also leave Pireaus near Athens every day for Crete; the trip takes 10 hours. The official travel agent Ge-eS Tours may be contacted for further information. GENERAL CHAIR Frank L. Lewis Automation & Robotics Research Institute The University of Texas at Arlington 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S. Fortworth, TX 76118, USA Email: flewis@controls.uta.edu Fax: (817) 272-5952, Phone: (817) 272-5972 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS P. N. Paraskevopoulos Division of Computer Science Department of Electrical Engineering National Technical University of Athens 15773 Zographon, Athens, Greece Email: parask@softlab.ece.ntua.gr Fax: +30 1 772-2459, Phone: +30 1 772-2501 Peter P. Groumpos Department of Electrical Engineering Laboratory of Automation and Robotics University of Patras GR-26500 Rion, Greece Email: groumpos@ee.upatras.gr Fax: +30 61 997-309, Phone: +30 61 997-295 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Kostas Kyriakopoulos Mechanical Engineering Department National Technical University of Athens Patision 42, Athens 10682, Greece Email: kkyria@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr Fax: +30 1 362-6354, Phone: +30 1 380-7180 Petros G. Voulgaris University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Coordinated Science Laboratory 1308 W. Main St. Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA Email: petros@ktisivios.csl.uiuc.edu Fax: (217) 244-1653, Phone: (217) 333-1368