VENUE AND SCOPE (1 000 PTE ≈ 5 Euros) CONTROLO’2000 Before August 15, 2000 After August 15, 2000 The Portuguese Association of Automatic Control Member of APCA: Member of APCA: (APCA) invites researchers, professionals, students, Full fee 35 000 PTE Full fee 45 000 PTE th Reduced fee* 17 500 PTE Reduced fee* 22 500 PTE 4 PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE industrialists and businessmen to participate in the th ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL CONTROLO’2000: 4 PORTUGUESE-INTERNATIONAL Non-member of APCA: Non-member of APCA: CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, which will be held Full fee 45 000 PTE Full fee 55 000 PTE at the Campus of Azurém of the University of Minho, Reduced fee* 22 500 PTE Reduced fee* 27 500 PTE in the town of Guimarães. Final Announcement The conference is intended as an international forum *Reduced fee: students under 25. and where an effective exchange of knowledge and experience amongst researchers active in various An online pre-registration form is available at the internet (http://www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000) Call for Papers theoretical and applied areas of systems and control can take place. This is also an excellent opportunity to promote the Portuguese control community and LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE stimulate the establishment of new international C. Couto (Chairman) (Dep. Industrial Electronics) links. E. Bicho (Dep. Industrial Electronics) 4-6 October 2000 The program will include an ample space for E. Ferreira (Dep. Biological Eng.) promoting the implementation of new technologies, J. Ferreira da Silva (Dep. Mechanical Eng.) emphasizing simultaneously the real-world F. Fontes (Dep. Mathematics) challenges in their applications. J. Monteiro (Dep. Industrial Electronics) GUIMARÃES The program includes a “Student Forum on F. Soares (Dep. Industrial Electronics) Automatic Control”, a mean to attract young F. Ribeiro (Dep. Industrial Electronics) students to the area of control.

The working language of the conference is English. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

IMPORTANT DEADLINES - 4 plenary lectures: Michael Athans: “Directions in systems and

March 15 Submission of full papers and proposals of ” Organized by APCA special sessions Rolf Isermann “Towards electronic controlled Portuguese Association of Automatic Control automobiles” May 15 Notification of acceptance (IFAC National Member Organization) Michael Condry: “What happens when you July 31 Final version of the papers accepted and pre- connect a control system to the internet” and supported by registration Axel Steinhage: “The Dynamic Approach to Anthropomorphic Robotics” Universidade do Minho REGISTRATION FEES - Special sessions

- Contributed (regular) lectures - Poster sessions The registration fee includes the Proceedings,

attendance to the sessions, coffee breaks and social Special sessions program. The average price of a single room in a Comprise 4/5 contributions each. Papers in each 3/4-star hotel is under 10 000 PTE per night. session should present a cohesive and Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings comprehensive focus on a relevant topic, consistent only if one of the authors pays the registration fee with the conference themes. Prospective organizers www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000 before September 15, 2000. are invited to submit 4 copies of the full papers and

a session title.

Contributed papers and poster sessions with a file on a floppy disk (PC format), using INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Are solicited in all areas consistent with the Microsoft WORD, PDF or Postscript formats. conference themes. Authors are asked to submit 4 The required paper format and the procedure for M. Adamski, Tech. Univ. Zielona Gora, Poland P. Albertos, Univ. Politec. Valencia, Spain copies of original papers. electronic submission are described at the F. Almeida, Univ. Porto, Portugal Conference web site. M. Athans, Tech. Univ. , Portugal Topics E. Camacho, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain F. Carvalhal, Nat. Lab. Civil Engineering, Portugal Contributions are welcome in both theoretical M. Condry, Sun Microsystems, U.S.A. developments and practical implementations in all SPECIAL EVENT: CONTROLOJOVEM A. Dourado, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal areas involving systems and control. Such topics P. Drews, APS - European Center for Mechatronics, Germany include, but are not limited to: A Student Forum on Automatic Control is organized H. Duarte-Ramos, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal A. Dumitru, Technical University Iasi, Romania linear and nonlinear control for students. It includes a poster session, where the S. Feyo de Azevedo, Univ. Porto, Portugal optimal control students can describe their original projects and P. Fleming, Univ. Sheffield, U.K. adaptive control main achievements. A limited number of posters will P. Frank, Gerhard-Mercator Univ. Duisburg, Germany T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan robust control be selected for oral presentation in a dedicated P. Garrido, Univ. Minho, Portugal stochastic control session. J. Geromel, Univ. Campinas, Brazil process control J. Gilbert, Univ. Hull, U.K. real time systems and architectures Participants from Portugal and Spain are particularly J. Gray, Univ. Salford, ,U. K. M. Greene, Auburn University, U.S.A. hybrid systems welcome. Space and video equipment will be T. Hagglund, Lund Institute Technology, Sweden modeling, identification and simulation provided for demonstrations. More information about R. Hernandez, Instit. Tecnolgico de Aguascalientes, Mexico control technology, sensors and actuators this event may be found at K. Jezernik, Univ. Maribor, Slovenia O. Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey instrumentation http://www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000. I. Landau, INPG, France neural networks K. Leivsk, University Oulu, Finland fuzzy systems F. Leite, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal genetic algorithms EXHIBITION J. Lemos, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal J. Machado, Polytechnic Inst. Porto, Portugal robotics K. Man, City University Hong Kong, China mobile robotics An exhibition related to the topics of the conference A. Mano, Grupo EDP, Portugal image processing and artificial vision will be held at the conference venue. R. Marin, Univ. de Vigo, Spain P. Marino, Univ. Vigo, Spain signal processing, filtering and estimation J. Martins de Carvalho, Univ. Porto, Portugal industrial E. Mosca, Univ.di Firenze, Italy systems and scheduling H. Nijmeijer, Univ. Twente, Holland industrial networking SECRETARIAT U. Nunes, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal A. Ollero ,Univ. Sevilla, Spain education in control J. Puente, Tech. Univ. Madrid, Spain CONTROLO’2000 (c/o Filomena Soares) J. Quevedo, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Departamento de Electrónica Industrial I. Ribeiro, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS A. Ruano, Univ. Algarve, Portugal Universidade do Minho J. Sá da Costa, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal Campus de Azurém K. Schilling, U. App. Scien., FH Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany The length of each paper (special, contributed or 4800-058 Guimarães G. Schoner, CNRS-CRNC, France poster proposal) should not exceed 6 single spaced J. Sentieiro, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal PORTUGAL M. Silva, Univ. de Saragoza, Spain pages. The cover page should contain title, author’s F. Souza, Univ. Beira Interior, Portugal name, affiliation and address, fax number and e-mail Phone: 351-253- 510190 P. Taylor, Univ. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. address, as well as, a brief abstract and five Fax: 351-253-510189 R. Vinter, Imperial College, U.K. keywords. Detailed format information (IFAC type) E-mail: [email protected] will be provided after paper’s selection. http://www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000 Authors are encouraged to employ the electronic submission procedure, but contributions may also be sent by normal mail on paper (4 copies), together