The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to Azores, Portugal, for the 13th APCA International Conference on Control and Soft-Computing (CONTROLO 2018). The conference will be held in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, from 4 - 6, June 2018 and followed by two thematic workshops on June 7. This 13th edition of the conference is a special landmark for APCA, as it coincides with the celebration of its 25th anniversary.

CONTROLO 2018 intends to emerge as a world-class international forum for the presentation and discussion of new advances and research outcomes, and is an appealing opportunity for informal networking in the fields of Automatic Control, Automation and Soft-Computing.

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers in English, 6 pages, in pdf format, following instructions accessible on the conference webpage. All peer reviewed, accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore digital library, while the proceedings will be submitted to Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC and Scopus for indexation. In addition, authors of selected papers will be called upon to resubmit extended versions of their papers to a designated high impact-factor International Journal.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Control Systems
Adaptive Control
Control Education
Control Theory and Applications
Distributed Control
Estimation and Identification
Fault Detection and Control
Fuzzy Logic-Based Control
Human in the Loop Control
Intelligent and AI Based Control
Networked Control
Neural Networks and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
Nonlinear Systems
Optimization and Robust Control
Remote and Virtual Laboratories
Structural health monitoring and diagnostics
Structural vibration control

Soft-Computing
Adaptive and Dynamic Programming
Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition
Cloud, Fog and Big Data
Cognitive Artificial Systems
Computational Intelligence
Data Mining and Information Retrieval
Data Reduction and Interpretation
Evolution of AI Systems
Independent and Cognitive Computing
Intelligent Agents and Context Awareness
Knowledge Acquisition and Representation
Machine Learning
Perception Intelligent Decision Systems
Reinforcement and Deep-Learning

Automation
Automated Guided Vehicles
Autonomous Agents
Embedded Systems
Factory Modelling and Automation
Human - Agent Interaction
Human-Machine Interfaces
Industrial Networks and Automation
Industry Automation
Instrumentation
Mechatronics Systems
Mobile Robots
Modelling of Complex Systems
Perception and Awareness
Process Automation
Real-Time Systems
Robotics
Vision, Recognition and Reconstruction