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Special Session on:
Robust Adaptive Soft Sensors

To be held in the framework of the:
2nd IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control Systems and Signal Processing
21-23 September 2009, Istanbul,Turkey

Session Organisers: Bogdan Gabrys & Petr Kadlec

Despite the numerous publications dealing with soft sensors (Google Scholar finds more than 3000 publications including the term ?soft sensor?), so far there has been no conference or special session dedicated to this topic. The goal of this special session is therefore to create a platform for the presentation and discussion of the latest developments within the soft sensor research topic. The particular emphasis will be put on tackling current challenges including automatic ways of dealing with data noise and impurity, adaptation to changing environments, etc. which have not yet been solved by modern soft sensors.
Since the main topic of this conference is the application of computational intelligence techniques to industrial problems, this special session also focuses on the application of data-driven (i.e. computational intelligence and statistical) methods for among others on-line prediction, process monitoring and sensor/process fault detection as well as novel and non-traditional applications of soft sensors.

The main topics of the special session will be:

* Soft sensors and inferential control
* Soft sensors for on-line prediction
* Soft sensors for process monitoring
* Soft sensors for process and sensor fault detection
* Adaptive and evolving Soft Sensors
* Soft sensors dealing with impure and noisy data
* Advanced applications of computational learning methods to soft sensing
* Advanced applications of statistical methods to soft sensing

Submission process:

Papers should be submitted using the normal paper submission system for ICONS 2009 conference here. When submitting your paper please make sure you select the correct track for the submission which is: Special Session 1: Robust Adaptive Soft Sensors.

Detailed formatting instructions and template files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word can be found here. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the submission site and will subsequently undergo the full review process.

Important Dates:

        Submission of short abstracts: 15 March 2009
        Notification of abstract acceptance: 28 March 2009
        Submission of full papers: 15 April 2009
        Notification of acceptance: 7 May 2009 
        Camera-ready submission of full papers: 5 June 2009