The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2018) will be held in Miyazaki, Japan.

SMC2018 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.

The theme of the conference is
“The Making of a Human-Centered Cyber World”

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	Human-Machine Systems	Cybernetics
Communications	Affective Computing	Agent-Based Modeling
Conflict Resolution	Assistive Technology	Artificial Immune Systems
Consumer/Industrial Applications	Augmented Cognition	Artificial Life
Control of Uncertain Systems	Brain-based Information	Biometric Systems and Bioinformatics
Cooperative Systems and Control	Communications	Computational Intelligence
Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems	Companion Technologies	Computational Life Science
Decision Support Systems	Design Methods	Cybernetics for Informatics
Discrete Event Systems	Entertainment Engineering	Evolutionary Computation
Distributed Intelligent Systems	Human Factors	Expert and Knowledge- Based Systems
Enterprise Information Systems	Human Performance Modeling	Fuzzy Systems and their Applications
Enterprise Architecture and Engineering	Human-Computer Interaction	Heuristic Algorithms
Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis	Human-Machine Cooperation and Systems	Hybrid Models of Neural Network, Fuzzy Systems  and Evolutionary Computing
Grey Systems	Human-Machine Interface and Communications	Image Processing / Pattern Recognition
Homeland Security	Information Systems for Design/Marketing	Information Assurance and Intelligent
Infrastructure Systems and Services	Information Visualization	Multimedia Computation
Intelligent Green Production Systems	Interactive Design Science and Engineering	Intelligent Internet Systems
Intelligent Learning in Control Systems	Interactive and Digital Media	Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Machine Learning
Intelligent Power and Energy Systems	Kansei(sense/emotion) Engineering	Machine Vision
Intelligent Power Grid	Medical Informatics	Media Computing
Intelligent Transportation Systems	Mental Models	Medical Informatics
Intelligent Vehicle Systems and Control	Multimedia Systems	Neural Networks and their Applications
Large-Scale System of Systems	Multi-User Interaction	Optimization
Logistics Informatics and Industrial Security Systems	Resilience Engineering	Quantum Cybernetics
Manufacturing Systems/Automation	Supervisory Control	Quantum Machine Learning
Mechatronics	Systems Safety and Security	Self-Organization
Medical Mechatronics	Team Performance and Training Systems	Swarm Intelligence
Micro and/or Nano Systems	User Interface Design
Model-Based Systems Engineering	Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems
Quality/Reliability Engineering	Wearable Computing
Robotic Systems	Web Intelligence and Interaction
Service Systems and Organizations
Smart Metering
Smart Sensor Networks
System Modeling and Control
System of Systems
Systems Biology
Technology Assessment

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