Call For Papers

Original contributions are sought in the wide and multi-disciplinary areas of Power, Energy and High Voltage Engineering; Signal and Image Processing; Computer, Embedded and Intelligent Systems and Data Engineering; Communication and Information Technology; Control, Robotics and Automation; Electronics, Instrumentation and Bio-Medical Engineering.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Power, Energy and High Voltage Engineering

  • Planning, operation and control of power system
  • Smart grids and active distribution networks
  • Microgrids and standalone power systems
  • Power system protection, reliability & resiliency
  • Power system education
  • Power quality
  • Electricity markets and system economics
  • New modeling and simulation approaches
  • Circuits, systems, control and application of power electronics
  • Electrical machines and drives
  • Problems of the Power Industry
  • Socio-economic impact of electric power system
  • Renewable and sustainable energy technologies
  • Distributed, embedded & dispersed generation
  • Grid integration of new technologies
  • Carbon pricing and low-carbon energy policy
  • Energy management, policies and regulation
  • Impact of high penetration of renewable energy sources
  • Electric vehicles and transportation
  • Alternative Energy and the Environment
  • High voltage testing and diagnosis
  • Asset management and condition monitoring
  • Lightning protection
  • Alternative Insulation materials

Artificial Intelligence, Signal and Image Processing

  • Audio, Acoustic and Speech Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
  • Design and Implementation of Signal and Image Processing Systems
  • Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing
  • Signal Processing for Industrial Applications
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in Signal processing
  • Information Forensics and Security
  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Signal Processing
  • Internet of Things
  • Computer Vision for Stereoscopic and Multi-view Systems and 3D Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in Image Analysis
  • Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing and Geo Science
  • Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing
  • Signal Processing for Communication Systems and Networking
  • Signal Processing for Smart Systems
  • Signal Processing for Education
  • Signal Processing for the Smart Grid
  • Image Segmentation and Analysis
  • Computational Imaging
  • Image and Video Restoration and Enhancement
  • Color, Multi Spectral and Hyper Spectral Imaging
  • Deep Learning for Image and Video Processing
  • Biometrics, Motion Estimation and Biological Image Processing
  • Detection, Recognition and Classification of Images
  • Image and Video Compression and Coding
  • Image Interpretation and Understanding

Controls, Robotics and Automation

  • Control Systems
  • Smart Robotics Science and Technology
  • Intelligent Robots
  • Industry 4.0 Applications
  • Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
  • Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics
  • Underwater Robotics
  • Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles
  • Mechatronics
  • Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions

Computer, Embedded and Intelligent Systems and Data Engineering

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), expert systems, and evolutionary computing
  • Big data analysis
  • Computer and data networking
  • Cryptography, cryptanalysis, and computer security and privacy
  • Data fusion, data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Distributed systems and cloud computing
  • Hardware-software co-design and reconfigurable computing
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Operating systems, compilers, programming languages
  • Pattern recognition and computer vision
  • Power-aware design and computing
  • Real-time systems
  • System reliability and security
  • Software engineering

Communications and Information Technology

  • PHY layer wireless solutions, LTE-Advanced, 5G technologies, cloud architectures
  • Optical and photonic communications
  • Wireless and sensor networks
  • Antennas, propagation, and computational electromagnetics
  • Microwave theory and techniques, mmWave and sub-THz communication
  • Radar, sonar, and remote sensing applications
  • Multi-antenna communication systems, massive MIMO, Cloud RAN, distributed antenna systems
  • OFDM, multi-carrier modulation, waveform design
  • MAC layer design, routing in wireless networks and Cross layer optimization
  • Congestion and admission control
  • WLAN, WPAN, and other home/personal networking technologies
  • Architectures and design of cognitive radio networks
  • Security and privacy for mobile and wireless networks, information systems
  • Energy efficient design and energy harvesting for Green communications
  • Internet-of-Things (IoT), applications, technologies and testbeds
  • Software defined networks, network slicing and softwarization
  • Wireless sensor, ad hoc, and vehicular networks, mobile social networks
  • Fog computing and networking, mobile edge computing
  • Visible light communication (VLC) networks
  • Localization and ranging techniques for communication applications
  • Context and location-aware wireless services and applications, E-health, network data analytics
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for networking and communications
  • Satellite and space communications and networking

Electronics, Instrumentation and Bio-medical Engineering

  • Industrial electronics and instrumentation
  • Biomedical electronics and instrumentation
  • Biomedical Sensors
  • Medical Devices
  • Brain-Machine Interfacing
  • Microelectronic design, manufacturing, and integration
  • Optoelectronics & photonics
  • Power electronic topologies and applications
  • Precision instrumentation and measurements
  • Nanoelectronic systems, components & devices
  • Nanosensors
  • Smart sensors and instrumentation systems
  • Automobile electronics