First International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement

November 17 – November 19
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
http://dap.vsb.cz/aecia2014

INTRODUCTION
The aim of the First International Afro-European Conference for Industrial
Advancement is to bring together the foremost experts as well as excellent young
researchers from Africa, Europe and the rest of the world to disseminate latest
results from various fields of engineering, information and communication
technologies. AECIA 2014 will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The AECIA 2014 organizing committee is inviting the submission of papers that
present high quality, original and unpublished work. All submissions will be
thoroughly peer-reviewed by multiple reviewers. Proceedings of AECIA 2014 will
be published in Springer. It will be indexed by Thomson ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP.
Extended versions of the best papers presented at this conference will be
considered for publication in a Special Issues of internationally recognized
journals.

The scope of AECIA 2014 includes, but not limited to, the following topics:

Intelligent Techniques and Algorithms
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Soft Computing for Modeling, Control, and Optimization
Bio-inspired Systems
Fuzzy Control
Artificial Neural Networks
Software Agent Systems and Architectures
Information Fusion
Rough Sets
Bayesian Networks
Fuzzy Image Processing
Support Vector Machines
Granular Computing
Pattern Recognition

ICT Application in Engineering
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CAD/CAM/CIM and other Simulation
Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering
E-learning
Electrical power Engineering and Energy Technology
Renewable Energy
Nanotechnology
Production Planning and Control
Decision Analysis/Decision Theory and Method
Quality Control and Management
Supply Chain Management
Geotechnical Engineering
Road and Transport Engineering
Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering
Process design, modeling, simulation and optimization
Environmental Engineering & Science
Service improvement
Resource utilization
Robotics
Fault Diagnosis
Business Information Systems
RFID

Automation System
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Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering
Complex Systems and Intelligent Robots
Computational Intelligence and Applications
Industrial Automation and Online Monitoring
Intelligent Automation and Manufacturing
Intelligent Control Theory and Applications
Intelligent Management and Decision Making
Mechanical Engineering and Automation
Modeling, Identification, and Fault Diagnosis
Navigation Control Theory and Applications
Robotics, Service and Medical Robotics and application
Human-computer interaction

Control, Optimization, and Processing
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Information Hiding
Knowledge-Based Systems
Information Retrieval and Integration
Intelligent Control and Optimization
Multimedia Sensing and Sensory Systems
Watermarking Methods and Applications
Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
Signal Control (wired & wireless)
Control Theory and Control Engineering
Social Networking
Web Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Intelligent Control and Optimization
Systems Engineering and Engineering Optimization

Conference Chairs
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Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Daniel Kitaw, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, AAU, Ethiopia
Richard Chbeir, Pau University, LIUPPA, Bayonne, France

Program Chairs
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Ivan Zelinka, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt

Publicity Co-Chairs
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Jan Platos, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pavel Kromer, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Beteley Tekola, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, AAU, Ethiopia

Conference Organizers
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Hussein Soori, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Eshetie Berhan, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, AAU, Ethiopia
Yalemzewd Negash, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, AAU, Ethiopia
M.J. Rajesh, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, AAU, Ethiopia
Jakub Stolfa, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Svatopluk Stolfa, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Katerina Kasparova, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

IMPORTANT DATES (Extended and final)
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Full paper submission: July 07, 2014.
Notification of paper acceptance: August 19, 2014.
Final (camera-ready) version submission: September 08, 2014.
Source files and copyright submission: September 08, 2014.
Registration: September 08, 2014.
Conference dates: November 17-19, 2014.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
• All camera ready papers must be submitted before September 08, 2014.
• Papers maximum length is 10 pages.
• Papers must be formatted according
to Springer format (Latex) available at: http://www.springer.com/series/4240
• Submissions and reviews are automatically handled
by EasyChair available at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aecia2014