FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
10^th International Conference on
OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTRICAL AND

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

OPTIM ‘06
May 18-19, 2006, Braşov, Romania

 

 

New:

 

Postponed deadline for full paper submission: January 15, 2006

 

Organized by:

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Transilvania University of Brasov

In cooperation with: 

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Politehnica University of Timisoara

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Romanian Academy, Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, Romanian Electrotechnical Commitee

Technically Sponsored by:

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Industry Application Society (IEEE-IAS)

Industrial  Electronics Society (IEEE-IES),

Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS)

IEEE Romania Section

IEE The Institution of Electrical Engineers & IEE Romania Section
VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies

Our 4 keynote address speakers are worldwide known personalities in their field:

 

 

Topic Areas:

Electrotechnics

 

Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & Industrial Drives

Rotary and Linear-Motion Electrical Machines and Drives,

Electric Generators and their Control

Electric Propulsion on Trains, Vessel, Urban People Movers

Power Electronics, Switching Converters

Mechatronics, Robotics, Mobile Autonomous Systems, Sensors, Electric Actuators

Automotive Electrical Equipment

Industrial Automation and Control

Control of Linear and Non-linear Systems

Motion Control, Drive Control, Modelling, Simulation, Signal Processing

Adaptive and Robust Control, Variable Structure Control, Petri Nets, Neural Networks, Intelligent Systems

Industrial Informatics, Communication Systems, Process Control

CAD Tools and Multimedia, Human-Machine Interface Technology

Safety and Reliability in Automation

Applied Electronics

Power Electronics Components and Devices

DSP and Microcontrollers for Power Electronics and Motion Control 

Electronic Circuits and Network Theory, Circuits & Systems, Microsystems

Symbolic Approaches on Electronics

Embedded Systems, Hardware & Software Co-Design

Measurements and Data Acquisition, Metrology

Audio and Video Signal Processing

Reliability of Electronic Devices

Electrical Engineering Education

Education in Electrical Technologies

New Educational Tools including Information and Communication Technologies

Introducing Information and Communication Technologies in the Laboratories

Distance Learning, Continuous Learning, New Materials, New Methods

University-Industry Collaboration

Special Sessions

Image Processing – Technical and Medical Applications (Prof. Detlef RICHTER)

Advanced Optimisation Methods in Electrical Engineering

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

Renewable Energy Conversion and Control

Power Electronics for Power Systems and Power Quality, High Power Converters

Advanced dc-dc Converters

Logic Design and Testing

 

Schedule for paper submission:

Full paper deadline:	January 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance:	February 15, 2006
Photo-ready copies and Registration fees:	March 15, 2006

                        

Submission:

Selection will be based upon 6 or 8 A4 pages paper in IEEE double column format. Only contribution papers are accepted. Practical (experience based) contributions from industry are mostly welcome. Please make sure that your paper is the best it can be when you send it by Email. You will be invited to make corrections in accordance of reviewers’ recommendations. IEEE Authors Guide may be downloaded from the sites: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ias/pub-dept/style.html, (styles) and …/two-column.pdf (sample paper) or may be available on request from IEEE Publications Department, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA.

Important OPTIM corrections: paper size A4; 3-3.5 cm top and bottom margins, 2.5 cm left and right margins; 5 mm space between the two equal width columns.

 

We expect to have again a conference with 170-200 papers or more (OPTIM ’04 had 171 papers from 33 countries). The papers are planned to be presented in 3 parallel oral lines of sessions with poster sessions to cover for the rest of the papers. We will have 3-4 keynote addresses from world-renowned personalities and international high tech Companies, to be presented in special plenary sessions. There will be 2 full conference days (Thursday May 18 and Friday May 19) with day 3 (Saturday May 20, 2006) for cultural events for all participants.

 

Send your submission only via Email to optim@vega.unitbv.ro. Please send electronic anonymized files in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) and also a cover leter containing the title of the paper, the authors (names, affiliation, E-mail address, mailing address, phone and fax numbers), the corresponding author, and the topic area.

 

Accepted Papers:

All submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the International Steering Committee and the corresponding author will be notified of acceptance or rejection. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference (an author could present maximum two (2) papers) and will be published in the conference Proceedings.

 

The best (graded by the reviewers’ scores)20% of papers  presented (the session and date will be mentioned) at OPTIM 2006, with the author’s approval, will be sent by the organizers of OPTIM-06 and will considered for review for eventual publication in IEEE Trans. Vol. IA, IE, PE, provided their content falls into the scope of this Journal. More details will be given on site at OPTIM 2006. This is a result of continuing technical sponsorship from IEEE-IAS

 

Papers from OPTIM ’06, ’06 etc. may also be considered, by author's initiative or by invitation, for final review and speedy publication in the new Internet-only international archival journal: "Journal of Electrical Engineering"; please visit: "www.jee.ro".

 

Conference Language:

The official language of the Conference is English. It will be used for all printed materials, presentations and discussions.

Registration fees (bank transfer taxes not included):

350 EUR (or equivalent in USD) for each participant (author or not author), includes attendance at all scientific programs, invitation to the welcome reception and the banquet, Proceedings in CD form, daily meals (4 days), transport by bus organized from and to the Bucharest International Airport, one trip from the list of the proposed ones.

230 EUR (or equivalent in USD) for each companion (not author or co-author), includes invitation to the welcome reception and the banquet, daily meals, transport by bus organized from and to the Bucharest International Airport, two trips from the list of the proposed ones.

We will arrange a wide variety of accommodations by request at prices from, approximately 40 Euro/night/room in good quality family hotels to probably up to 90 Euro/night/room in the 4 star fully renovated Hotel PIATRA  MARE (a NATO Meeting was held in last year) where the Conference will take place.
 

Conference Location:

The OPTIM 2006 Conference will be held in Braşov, 176 km north of Bucharest. Brasov is a famous beautiful, medieval-touch city in the middle of the country. There are many beautiful scenes in Brasov and Poiana Braşov, which is located in the neighbourhood of the city. Brasov can be reached very well by car and it also by trains from/to most of the big cities in Romania. Braşov has no International Airport. The conference period is in the third week of May, which is warm enough, moist, with temperature about from 16 C (night) to 20 C (day). The Conference will take place in a hotel in Poiana Braşov, the first Ski resort in Romania(altitude 1,100m),15 minutes by car, from the centre of the old city  of Brasov.

For information contact:

Prof. Mihai CERNAT, OPTIM ‘06 Conference Secretary
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Bd. Eroilor 29, RO-500036 Braşov, Romania

Tel., Fax: +40-268-474718, -414459, E-mail: cernat@leda.unitbv.ro, optim@vega.unitbv.ro,

URL: http://optim.8m.com, www.leda.unitbv.ro/optim

 

International Steering Committee (proposal)

Past Honourary Chairs:

Thomas A. LIPO, Wisconsin State University, Madison, WI, USA

Michel POLOUJADOFF, Pierre et Marie Curie University VI of Paris. F

Toma DORDEA, Romanian Academy, Timisoara Branch, RO

Honourary Chair:

Robert D. LORENZ, Wisconsin State University, Madison, WI, USA

Manfred STIEBLER, Technical University of Berlin, D

Amir M. MIRI, University of Karlsruhe, D

Conference Chair:

Ion BOLDEA, Politehnica University of Timisoara, RO

Conference Program Chair

Mihai CERNAT, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

Conference Program Advisors

Andrei NICOLAIDE, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

Dirk PEIER, University of Dortmund, D

Sandor HALASZ, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU

Raul RABINOVICI, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheeva, IL

Alex VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Gent University, B

 

Local Technical Committee:

Co-chair

Gheorghe SCUTARU, Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

XXX, Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Politehnica University of Timisoara, RO

XXX, Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Members

Willibald SZABO, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

Ioan MARGINEANU, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

Radu MUNTEANU, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Dumitru TOADER, Politehnica University of Timisoara, RO

Mircea RĂDULESCU, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Francisc SISAK, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

Gheorghe Daniel ANDREESCU, Politehnica University of Timisoara, RO

Maria IMECS, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Vasile COMNAC, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

Toma Leonida DRAGOMIR, Politehnica University of Timisoara, RO

Clement FEŞTILĂ, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Iuliu SZEKELY, Transilvania University of Brasov, RO

Alexandru ISAR, Politehnica University of Timisoara, RO

Marina ŢOPA, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO