第11届全球智能控制与自动化大会（WCICA2014）

The 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2014) will be held in Shenyang, China, from June 27 to 30, 2014. WCICA 2014 is technically sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Association of Automation, and the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence. WCICA 2014 features plenary keynotes and plenary panel discussion sessions by the world leading researchers as well as awards to honor outstanding papers presented at this Congress.

The awards include Best Paper on Theory, Best Paper on Applications, Best Student Paper, Best Poster Paper, Best Paper on Biomedical Biosystem Related Areas, SUPCON Best Paper on Industrial Automation, and AIAG Best Paper on Supply Chain Related Topics. Moreover, we are in the process to arrange post-conference publication of a selected group of accepted papers at WCICA 2014 in more than ten leading international journals and top Chinese journals as special issues, among them are IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, and Acta Automation Sinica. It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit your original research papers to the Congress. WCICA 2014 also welcomes proposals for organizing Focused Theme Sessions on the conference topics, Tutorials and Workshops on emerging topics. You are invited to submit focused theme session proposals to Prof. Simon X. Yang (syang@uoguelph.ca) before Dec. 1, 2013. Please refer to the Congress website for details.