22nd IEEE International Conference on
Emerging Technologies And Factory Automation
September 12-15, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus

Program Committee & Reviewers

Track 1 - Information Technology in Automation

  • Esteban Arroyo, Helmut Schmidt Universitaet Hamburg, Germany
  • Franz Auinger, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
  • Mike Barth, Hochschule Pforzheim, Germany
  • Jan-Olaf Blech, RMIT, Australia
  • Josu Bilbao, IKERLAN-IK4 Research Centre, Spain
  • Salvatore Cavalieri, University of Catania, Italy
  • William Dai, Shanghai Jiatong University, China
  • Dacfey Dzung, ABB Switzerland Corporate Research, Switzerland
  • Ulrich Epple, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Elisabet Estevez, Universidad de Jaen, Spain
  • Cesare Fantuzzi, DISMI, Italy
  • Alexander Fay, Helmut Schmidt Universitaet Hamburg, Germany
  • Georg Frey, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
  • Roman Froschauer, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
  • Sten Grüner, ABB AG, Germany
  • David Haestbacka, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  • Robert Harrison, University of Warwick, Great Britain
  • Tobias Jaeger, Siemens, Germany
  • Sirkka-Liisa Jaemsä-Jounela, Aalto University, Finland
  • Petr Kadera, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Wolfgang Kastner, TU Wien, Austria
  • Marcus Keane, National University of Ireland, Ireland
  • Arndt Lueder, Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet, Germany
  • Martin Melik Merkumians, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Marga Marcos, University of the Basque Country, Spain
  • Roman Obermaisser, University of Siegen, Germany
  • Federico Perez, University of the Basque Country, Spain
  • Stefan Runde, Siemens, Germany,
  • Roopak Sinha, Auckland University of Technology, Australia
  • Thilo Sauter, TU Vienna, Austria
  • Seppo Sierla, Aalto University, Finland
  • aurizio Spirito, Instituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy
  • Mário Sousa, Porto University, Portugal
  • Kleanthis Thramboulidis, University of Patras, Greece
  • Leon Urbas, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
  • Birgit Vogel-Heuser, TU München, Germany
  • Valeriy Vyatkin, Luleå Tekniska Universitet & Aalto University, Finland
  • Pavel Vrba, Foxconn CZ, Czech Republic
  • Martin Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Alois Zoitl, Fortiss GMBH, Germany

Track 2 - Industrial Communication Technologies and Systems

  • Michele Albano, CISTER/ISEP, Porto, Portugal
  • Luis Almeida, IT FE/UP, Porto, Portugal
  • Manuel Barranco, DMI/UIB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • Gianluca Cena, CNR-IEIIT, Italy
  • Manuel Cheminod, CNR-IEIIT, Torino, Italy
  • Ramez Daoud, SEAD Group, American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • Max Felser, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Switzerland
  • Joaquim Ferreira, ESTGA/UA/IT, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Christian Fraboul, INPT IRIT, Univ. de Toulouse, France
  • Piotr Gaj, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
  • Svetlana Girs, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
  • Wolfgang Granzer, NETxAutomation, Wels, Austria
  • Waqas Ikram, Advanced Services & Products, PA Division – ABB AS, Oslo, Norway
  • Juergen Jasperneite, Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, Lemgo, Germany
  • Wolfgang Kastner, Automation Systems Group, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • Dong-Seong Kim, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, S. Korea
  • Aneeq Mahmood, ZISS-DUK, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  • Uwe Meier, OWL University, Lemgo, Germany
  • Carlos Montez, PGEAS/UFSC, Florianopolis, Brazil
  • Marek Natkaniec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
  • Mark Nixon, Emerson, USA
  • Thomas Nolte, Mälardalen University, Sweden
  • Federico Perez, DISA-EIB-UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
  • Paulo Portugal, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Stefano Scanzio, CNR-IEIIT, Torino, Italy
  • Amund Skavhaug, NTNU, Norway
  • Ye-Qiong Song, University of Lorraine, France
  • Wilfried Steiner, TTTech Computertechnik AG, Vienna, Austria
  • Eduardo Tovar, CISTER-ISEP, Porto, Portugal
  • Henning Trsek, rt-solutions.de, Cologne, Germany
  • Francisco Vasques, Univ. of Porto, Portugal
  • Andreas Willig, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Martin Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Mario Collotta, Kore University of Enna, Italy

Track 3 - Real-Time and (Networked) Embedded Systems [RTNES]

  • Luis Almeida, Univ. of Porto, Portugal
  • Sebastian Altmeyer, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Akramul Azim, Univ. of Ontario, Canada
  • Reinder Bril, TU/e, The Netherlands
  • Konstantinos Bletsas, ISEP, Porto, Portugal
  • Marco Caccamo, Univ. of Illinois, USA
  • Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, Italy
  • Dakshina Dasari, Bosch, India
  • Marco de Natalé, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, Italy
  • Rolf Ernst, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • Marcelo Goetz, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Arne Hamann, Bosch, Germany
  • Marcio Kreutz, UFRN, Brazil
  • Lucia Lo Bello, Univ. of Catania, Italy
  • Patricia Lopez Martinez, Univ. of Cantabria, Spain
  • Claire Maiza, INRIA, France
  • Julio Medina, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain
  • Ahlem Mifdaoui, Univ. of Toulouse-ISAE, France
  • Luis Miguel Pinho, ISEP Porto, Portugal
  • Pascale Minet, Iniria, France
  • Saad Mubeen, MDH, Sweden
  • Vincent Neils, ISEP, Porto
  • Thomas Nolte, MDH, Sweden
  • Luigi Palopoli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
  • Alessandro Papadopoulos, MDH, Sweden
  • Roberto Passerone, Univ. of Trento, Italy
  • Eduardo Quinones, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
  • Pascal Richard, Univ. of Poitiers / ENSMA, France
  • Kristian Sandström, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
  • Jean Luc Scharbarg, IRIT, France
  • Insik Shin, KAIST, South Korea
  • Frank Singhoff, Univ. of Brest, France
  • Mikael Sjödin, MDH, Sweden
  • Y-Q. Song, Loria, France
  • Marisol Garcia Valls, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Marco Wehrmeister, UFPT, Brazil

Track 4 - Automated Manufacturing Systems

  • Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM, France
  • Francesco Basile, Univ. of Salerno, Italy
  • Kristofer Bengtsson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden
  • Christian Diedrich, Univ. Magdeburg, Germany
  • Mariagrazia Dotoli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • Cesare Fantuzzi, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Jean-Marc Faure, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
  • Georg Frey, University of Saarland, Germany
  • Bernard Grabot, LGP-ENIT, France
  • Paulo Leitão, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal
  • Jean-Jacques Lesage, ENS de Cachan, France
  • Zhiwu Li, Xidian University, China
  • Vicente Lucena Jr., Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil
  • Ziyue Ma, Xidian University, China
  • Octavian Pastravanu, Technical University of Iasi, Romania
  • Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Thilo Sauter, Donau-Univ. Krems, Austria
  • Rong Su, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Shigemasa Takai, Osaka University, Japan
  • Marcelo Teixeira, Federal Univ. of Technology Parana, Brazil
  • Berger Ulrich, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology, Germany
  • Leonhard Urbas, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
  • Shouguang Wang, University of Hangzhou, China
  • Giulia Pedrielli, Arizona State University, USA
  • Yin Tong, Xidian University, China

Track 5 - Industrial Control

  • Orlando Arrieta, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
  • Marian Barbu, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Rumania
  • Margret Bauer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Hector Benitez, National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • Manuel Beschi, National Research Council, Italy
  • Simona Caramihai, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
  • M. Chidambaram, IIT-Madras, India
  • Blaise Conrad, Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, France
  • Andrzej Debowski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
  • Robin De Keyser, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Petter Falkman, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • M. Jesus Fuente, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
  • Juan Jose Gude, Univeridad de Deusto, Spain
  • Jose Luis Guzman, Universidad de Almeria, Spain
  • Tore Hagglund, Lund University, Sweden
  • Asier Ibeas, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Clara Ionescu, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Fotis Koulumbis, Halkis Institute of Technology, Greece
  • Bengt Lennartsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Tao Liu, Dalian University of Technology, China
  • Fabrizio Padula, Curtin University, Australia
  • Carles Pedret, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Gilberto Reynoso-Meza, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brasil
  • Daniel Rivera, Arizona State University, USA
  • Gregorio Sainz, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
  • Matilde Santos, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
  • Takao Sato, University of Hyogo, Japan
  • Carla Seatzu, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
  • Silvio Simani, University of Ferrara, Italy
  • Arthur Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Jean-Marc Thiriet, University of Grenoble UFJ, France
  • Kostas Tsakalis, Arizona State University, USA
  • Francisco Vázquez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain
  • Liuping Wang, RMIT University, Australia
  • Toru Yamamoto, Hiroshima University, Japan

Track 6 - Computer Vision, Computational Intelligence, and Modern Heuristics in Automation

  • Jesús Bermudez-Cameo, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Abdelaziz Bouras, Qatar University, Quatar
  • Cesar Cadena, ETHZ, Switzerland
  • CW Chan, Univ. of Hong Kong, China
  • Raymond Chiong, Univ. of Newcastle, GB
  • Alejo Concha, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Eric Demeester, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Jus Kocijan, Inst. Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
  • José Martínez-Carranza, INAOE, Mexico
  • Dimitris Mourtzis, Univ. of Patras, Greece
  • Dibyendu Mukherjee, Univ. of Tennessee, USA
  • Matilde Santos, Univ. Madrid, Spain
  • Thomas Schlegel, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Patrick Siarry, Univ. of Paris Est-Créteil, France
  • Nicola Strisciuglio, Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Damien Trentesaux, Univ. of Valenciennes, France
  • Duc Truong Pham, Univ. of Birmingham, GB

Track 7 - Intelligent Robots & Systems

  • Carlos Aldana, Univ. de Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Aman Behal, University of Central Florida, USA
  • Christian Berger, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Ulrich Berger, BUT Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
  • Jan Broenink, University of Twente, Nederlands
  • Itziar Cabanes, University of the Basque Country, Spain
  • Carlos Cardeira, IDMEC / IST, Portugal
  • Jose Castellanos, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Angel Del Pobil, University Jaume I, Spain
  • Antoni Grau, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
  • Kamal Gupta, SFU, Canada
  • Alvaro Hernandez-Alonso, University of Alcala, Spain
  • Marina Indri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Daniel Kubus, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • Oscar Martinez Mozos, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
  • Luis Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Emmanuel Nuño, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Andrea Orlandini, ISTC-CNR, Italy
  • Roman Overmaisser, Univ. Siegen, Germany
  • Gianluca Palli, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Stefania Pellegrinelli, CNR-ITIA, Italy
  • Ricardo Prado, Universidad Particular Antenor Orrego de Trujillo (UPAO), Peru
  • Pierre Payeur, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Maximo Roa, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
  • Juan Rojas, Guangdong University of Technology, China
  • Jan Rosell, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Pedro Sanz, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
  • Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada
  • Christian Schlegel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Stephan Schmidt, OVGU Magdeburg, Germany
  • Martin Seidel, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Germany
  • Jochen Steil, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Raul Suarez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Cristina Vicente-Chicote, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
  • Holger Voos, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • ndreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Sebastian Wrede, CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Sebastian Zug, OVGU Magdeburg, Germany

Track 8 - Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing

  • Ozgur Akan, Koc University, Turkey
  • Davide Brunelli, University of Trento, Italy
  • Ramez Daoud, American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • Carlos Insaurralde, Teesside University, UK
  • Marek Miskowicz, AGH University of Science & Technology, Krakow, Poland
  • Ramon Serna Oliver, TTTech Comuptertechnik AG, Austria
  • Andrzej Pawlowski, Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control, UNED, Madrid, Spain
  • Michael Short, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
  • Weilian Su, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA

Track 9 - Complex Engineering Systems and Systems Engineering

  • Christos Alexakos, ISI / RC ATHENA, Greece
  • Milton Borsato, Federal University of Technology – Parana, Brasil
  • Mariagrazia Dotoli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • Martin Fabian, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Marisol Garcia Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Mardid, Spain
  • Dimitris Kiritsis, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Paris Kitsos, TEI of Western Greece, Greece
  • Christos Koulamas, ISI / RC ATHENA, Greece
  • Paulo Leitao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal
  • Spiros Likothanassis, University of Patras, Greece
  • Arndt Lueder, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
  • Julien Provost, Technical University Munich, Germany
  • Ricardo Sanz, University of Madrid, Spain

Track 10 - Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Networked Systems

  • Mohammad Al Faruque, University of California, USA
  • Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
  • Michael Ditze, TWT, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Jens Eliasson, Lulea TU, Sweden
  • Tullio Facchinetti, University of Pavia, Italy
  • Cesare Fantuzzi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Mikael Gidlund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
  • John Baras Barbara Hammer, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • Meir Kalech, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  • Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP, Germany
  • Heiko Krumm, TU Dortmund, Germany
  • Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
  • Milos Manic, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
  • Mark Mattingly-Scott, IBM, Germany
  • Christoph Niedermeier, Siemens, Germany
  • Bruno Quoitin, University of Mons, Belgium
  • Thilo Steckel, Claas, Germany
  • Borahan Tümer, Marmara Uni, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Orfefs Voutyras, ICCS/NTUA, Great Britain
  • Janusz Zalewski, FGCU, USA