Call For Papers

Aim
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent advances and developments in the newly emerging areas of technology, as well as actual and potential applications to industrial and factory automation.

Solicited Papers
Research papers reporting on new developments in technological sciences. Industry and development papers reporting on actual developments of technology, products, systems and solutions. Tutorial and survey papers. Work-in-progress papers. In addition, ETFA 2010 solicits special session proposals to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas relevant to the conference theme. Please consult the conference web page for more details.

Submission of Papers
The working language of the conference is English.

Two types of submissions are solicited.

• Long Papers - limited to 8 double column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points.
• Work-in-Progress and Industry practice - limited to 4 double column pages, in a font no smaller than 10-points.

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format, according to the instructions contained in the Conference web site.

No-show Policy: The ETFA 2010 Organizing Committee reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference at IEEE Xplore if the paper is not presented at the conference

Paper Acceptance
Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The final manuscript must be accompanied by a registration form and a registration fee payment proof. All conference attendees, including authors and session chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee, and their travel expenses.

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