SMC 2018 is the flagship conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. It provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to report up-to-the-minute innovation and development, summarize the state-of-the-art, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of systems science and engineering, human machine systems, and cybernetics.

You are invited to participate and submit your contributions to SMC2018. The areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

SYSTEMS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING:

Communications

Conflict Resolution

Consumer/Industrial Applications

Control of Uncertain Systems

Cooperative Systems and Control

Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems

Decision Support Systems

Discrete Event Systems

Distributed Intelligent Systems

Enterprise Information Systems

Enterprise Architecture and Engineering

Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis

Grey Systems

Homeland Security

Infrastructure Systems and Services

Intelligent Green Production Systems

Intelligent Learning in Control Systems

Intelligent Power and Energy Systems

Intelligent Power Grid

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Intelligent Vehicle Systems and Control

Large-Scale System of Systems

Logistics Informatics and Industrial Security Systems

Manufacturing Systems/Automation

Mechatronics

Medical Mechatronics

Micro and/or Nano Systems

Model-Based Systems Engineering

Quality/Reliability Engineering

Robotic Systems

Service Systems and Organizations

Smart Metering

Smart Sensor Networks

System Modeling and Control

System of Systems

Systems Biology

Technology Assessment

HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS:

Affective Computing

Assistive Technology

Augmented Cognition

Brain-based Information

Communications

Companion Technologies

Design Methods

Entertainment Engineering

Human Factors

Human Performance Modeling

Human-Computer Interaction

Human-Machine Cooperation and Systems

Human-Machine Interface and Communications

Information Systems for Design/Marketing

Information Visualization

Interactive Design Science and Engineering

Interactive and Digital Media

Kansei(sense/emotion) Engineering

Medical Informatics

Mental Models

Multimedia Systems

Multi-User Interaction

Resilience Engineering

Supervisory Control

Systems Safety and Security

Team Performance and Training Systems

User Interface Design

Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems

Wearable Computing

Web Intelligence and Interaction

CYBERNETICS:

Agent-Based Modeling

Artificial Immune Systems

Artificial Life

Biometric Systems and Bioinformatics

Computational Intelligence

Computational Life Science

Cybernetics for Informatics

Evolutionary Computation

Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems

Fuzzy Systems and their Applications

Heuristic Algorithms

Hybrid Models of Neural Network,Fuzzy Systems and Evolutionary Computing

Image Processing /Pattern Recognition

Information Assurance and Intelligent

Multimedia Computation

Intelligent Internet Systems

Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Machine Learning

Machine Vision

Media Computing

Medical Informatics

Neural Networks and their Applications

Optimization

Quantum Cybernetics

Quantum Machine Learning

Self-Organization

Swarm Intelligence