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         The Tenth International Conference on Systems 
             ICONS 2015 
           April 19 - 24, 2015 - Barcelona, Spain  | 
       
     
          
       
         
             
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             - Colocated with other events part of NexComm 2015
 
             - Featuring the symposium:
               
                 - EMBEDDED 2015: International Symposium on Advances in Embedded Systems and   Applications 
 
                
              
             - Posters will be presented during the conference
 
             - A Work in Progress track is available for preliminary work
 
- A Research Ideas track is available for ideas in early stages
 
         - A Doctoral Forum track is available for discussing and publishing early PhD thesis research 
 
          
           due to winter holidays, submission deadline has been extended
           
             
               | Submission (full paper)  | 
               Nov 24 December 30, 2014  
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               | Notification | 
               February 2, 2015   | 
              
             
               | Registration | 
               February 15, 2015   | 
              
             
               | Camera ready  | 
               March 6, 2015   | 
              
            
           ISSN: 2308-4243  
             ISBN: 978-1-61208-399-5  | 
         
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     All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.
     Tracks:
     Systems theory and practice
     
       Systems design methodologies and  techniques; 
         Formal methods to specify systems’  behavior; 
         Online and offline systems; 
         Open and closed systems; 
         Centralized and distributed systems; 
         Proactive and reactive systems; 
         System robustness; 
         Systems scalability; 
         Fault-tolerant systems; 
         Feedback systems; 
         High-speed systems; 
         Delay tolerant systems; 
         Real-time systems
     
     Systems engineering
     
       Systems requirements; 
         Systems modeling; 
         Systems development lifecycle; 
         System-of-systems; 
         Systems ergonomics; 
         Subsystem interactions; 
         Systems decomposition; 
         Systems integration
     
     System Instrumentation
     
       Metering embedded sensors; 
         Composing multi-scale measurements; 
         Monitoring instrumentation; 
         Smart sensor-based systems; 
         Calibration and self-calibration systems; 
         Instrumentation for prediction systems
     
     Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip
     
       Real-time embedded systems 
         Programming embedded systems; 
         Controlling embedded systems; 
         High speed embedded systems; 
         Designing methodologies for embedded  systems; 
         Performance on embedded systems; 
         Updating embedded systems; 
         Wireless/wired design of  systems-on-the-chip; 
         Testing embedded systems; 
         Technologies for systems processors; 
         Migration to single-chip systems; 
         Micro/nano structures and systems
     
     Target-oriented systems [emulation, simulation, prediction,   etc.]
     
       Information systems; 
         Real-time systems; 
         Software systems; 
         Hardware systems; 
         Emulation systems; 
         Simulation systems Prediction systems
     
     Specialized systems [sensor-based, mobile, multimedia, biometrics,   etc.]
     
       Sensor-based systems; 
         Biometrics systems; 
         Mobile and fixed systems; 
         Ubiquitous systems; 
         Nano-technology-based  systems; 
         Multimedia systems
     
     Validation systems
     
       Diagnosis assistance systems; Test systems; Validation systems;  Performance measurement systems; Maintenance systems
     
     Security and protection systems
     
       Security systems; 
         Vulnerability detecting systems; 
         Intrusion detection systems 
         Intrusion avoidance systems; 
         Presence detection systems; 
         Monitoring systems; 
         Management systems; 
         Alert systems; 
         Defense systems; 
         Emergency systems
     
     Advanced systems [expert, tutoring, self-adapting, interactive,   etc.]
     
       Expert systems; 
         Tutoring systems; 
         Highly interactive systems; 
         Anticipative systems; 
         On-demand systems; 
         GRID systems; 
         Autonomic systems; 
         Autonomous systems; 
         Self-adapting systems; 
         Adjustable autonomic systems; 
         High performance computing systems; 
         Mission  critical systems
     
     Application-oriented systems [content, eHealth, radar, financial, vehicular,   etc.]
     
       Web-cashing systems; 
         Content-distributed systems; 
         Accounting and billing systems; 
         E-Health systems; 
         E-Commerce systems; 
         Radar systems; 
         Navigation systems; 
         Systems for measuring physical quantities; 
         Earthquake detection and ranking systems; 
         Financial systems; 
         Robotics systems; 
         Vehicular systems; 
         Entertainment systems; 
         Gaming systems; 
         Speech recognition system
     
     IT Systems
     
        IT service management; IT Infrastructure management; IT service      desk; Service support and delivery; Service strategy; Service      design; Service transition; Service operation; Continual service      improvement
     
     Safety in industrial systems
     
       Fundamentals on system safety; 
         Safety of software systems and       software engineering; 
         Safety requirements; 
         Safety for critical systems; 
         Engineering for system robustness and       reliability; 
         Control of mission critical systems; 
         Safety-oriented system design; 
         Human tasks and error models; 
         Hazard analysis; 
         Cost and effectiveness of       system safety; 
         Verification and       validation of safety; 
         Safety tools; 
         Evaluation       of  safety data, and mitigation and       prevention strategies; 
         Safety       control and management; 
         System Safety       Implementation Guidelines and Standards; 
         Transferring       safety knowledge; 
         Metrics       for Risk Assessment; 
         Contingency       Planning and Occurrence Reporting; 
         Preparedness       Activities; 
         Industry specific safety       systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry, Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety)
     
     Complex systems 
     
        Theory of complex systems; 
         Ontologies for complex systems; 
         Chaos and complexity; 
         Design and integrate complex systems; 
         Complexity and simulation; 
         Simulation and datamining; 
         Artificial intelligence and soft computing in complex systems; 
         Multi-agent based simulation; 
         Systems of systems; 
         Intelligent agent architectures; 
         Evolutionary programming; 
         Uncertainty reduction and classification; 
         Monitoring and managing complex systems; 
         Case studies of complex systems [vehicular, avionic, health, emergency,   sensing, etc.]; 
         Industrial systems [robotics, production, accounting and billing,   e-commerce, etc.]
     
     Computer vision and computer graphics
     
       Fundamental algorithms for computer graphics and computer   vision: Model representation and   simplification; Parametric curves and surfaces; Illumination techniques; Colors and color systems; Virtual and augmented reality, haptic   systems; Human-computer interaction; Real time rendering; Image processing, image   reconstruction; Pattern recognition; 3D scene reconstruction; Segmentation; Motion detection; Scientific and technical   visualization; Medical imaging; Information visualization; 3D TV; Mobile graphics and vision system; Industrial application of computer   graphics and vision