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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Dear Colleague:</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">CONTROLO 2016 will be the 12th conference in the successful series of conferences on automatic control sponsored by APCA, the
Portuguese association of automatic control and national IFAC organization member.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">This edition of the conference will be jointly organized by the School of Engineering, University of Minho, INESC-TEC and APCA
and will be co-sponsored by IFAC.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">The conference will be held September 14-16, 2016, at the campus of University of Minho, in Guimarăes, a Portuguese world heritage
city, 55 kilometers to the north of Porto.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">The proceedings of the conference will be published in the </span></font><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7818" target="_blank"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#389ED1"><span lang="en-US">Springer
Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering</span></font></span></font></a><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">, indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, MetaPress, Springerlink.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">CONTROLO 2016 will provide an excellent opportunity for presenting new results and to discuss the latest research and developments
in the field of automatic control. </span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">While the topics of CONTROLO 2016 should be as wide as possible, we would like CONTROLO 2016 to become a privileged place to
affirm the understated contribution of control and automation in general to </span>
</font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US"><i>human well-being</i></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">. Whenever relevant,
prospective authors are strongly encouraged to stress such contribution in their reported research and technology developments, so that a coherent overall picture can emerge from the conference and this gains a distinctive character.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">The social and cultural program of the conference will include:</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">– The welcome reception that will be held at archaeological Museu Martins Sarmento and will be preceded by a visit to the historic
center of Guimarăes. </span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">– The gala dinner that will be held at Pousada Mosteiro de Guimarăes, a 18th century monastery magnificently rehabilitated
and redesigned for tourism.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Submissions should be made through the Easychair submission system until January 22, 2016. Please follow this </span></font><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=controlo2016" target="_blank"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#389ED1"><span lang="en-US">link</span></font></span></font></a><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US"> to
enter your submission or to create an Easychair account allowing for the submission of your paper.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">The conference site is in
</span></font><a href="http://www.controlo2016.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="windowtext"><span lang="en-US">www.controlo2016.com</span></font></span></font></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Paulo Garrido</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Filomena Soares</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><a href="mailto:controlo2016@dei.uminho.pt" target="_blank"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">controlo2016@dei.uminho.pt</span></font></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font color="black" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US"> The conference topics include, but are not limited to:</span></font></span></div>
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<div style="" align="justify"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US"><b>Systems, theory and design methods</b></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Adaptive control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Control architectures</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Control theory</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Decision theory and algorithms</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Discrete-event systems</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Distributed and networked control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Fault-tolerant control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Genetic algorithms</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Nonlinear control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Modeling and identification</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Neural networks</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Optimal control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Real time systems architectures</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Robust control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Sensing and estimation algorithms</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Smart structures control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Stochastic control</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US"><b>Components and technology</b></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Control technology</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Hardware for control systems</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Image processing and computer vision</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Instrumentation, sensors and actuators</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;" align="justify"><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US"><b>Robotics and mechatronics</b></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Mechatronics modelling, simulation and identification</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Robotics </span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Aerospace control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Agricultural processes</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Biotechnological and environmental systems</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Industrial automation</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Industrial networking</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Manufacturing systems and scheduling</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Marine control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Networked fault tolerant control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Power systems control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Process control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Renewable energy systems</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Transportation systems</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Web remote control</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Wireless applications and systems</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Control education</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Economic models</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="en-US">Remote and virtual laboratories</span></font></div>
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