Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1 (2014)

This book contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2015) which is sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and co-organized by the University of Haute Alsace. ICINCO is held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI), EUROMICRO, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Associacao Portuguesa de Controlo Automatico (APCA), The International Neural Network Society (INNS), Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) and euRobotics AISBL (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif). ICINCO is also technically co-sponsored by IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and IEEE Robotics & Automation Society and co-sponsored by International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

The ICINCO Conference Series has now become a major forum to debate technical and scientific advances presented by researchers and developers both from academia and industry, working in areas related to Control, Automation and Robotics that benefit from Information Technology.

The high quality of the ICINCO 2015 program is enhanced by the four keynote lectures, given by internationally recognized researchers, namely: Krzysztof Kozlowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland), Gerhard Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Oliver Brock (TU Berlin, Germany) and Faiz Ben Amar (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Systemes Intelligents et de Robotique, France).

The meeting is complemented with the Special Session on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP).

ICINCO 2015 received 214 paper submissions, including the special session, from 42 countries in all continents, of which 44% were orally presented (14% as full papers). In order to evaluate each submission, a double blind paper review was performed by the Program Committee. As in previous editions of the Conference, based on the reviewerâs evaluations and the presentations, a short list of authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for a book that will be published by Springer with the best papers of ICINCO 2015.

Conferences are also meeting places where collaboration projects can emerge from social contacts amongst the participants. Therefore, in order to promote the development of research and professional networks, the Conference includes in its social program a Social Event & Banquet for the evening of July 22nd (Wednesday). 

We would like to express our thanks and appreciations to all participants. First of all, to the authors, whose quality work is the essence of this conference. Second, to all the members of the Program Committee and all reviewers, who helped us with their expertise and valuable time they have invested in reviewing submitted papers. We would also like to deeply thank the invited speakers for their excellent contributions and sharing their knowledge and vision. Finally, a word of appreciation for the hard work of the INSTICC team; organizing a conference of this level is a task that can only be achieved by the collaborative effort of a dedicated and highly capable team.

We hope that you will enjoy the program and your stay in the beautiful city of Colmar. We also hope to see you again next year at ICINCO 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.