[Acpc-l] [CfP] AFRICON'04 Special Track on Control Networks

[Wilfried Elmenreich]

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             IEEE Region 8's  AFRICON 2004
     ##   Special Track on "Control Networks"   ##

           Botswana, 15 - 17 September 2004
       Gaborone International Conference Centre
             http://eerc.up.ac.za/~ieee

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Topics of the special track on "Control Networks" include 
but are not limited to:
  Home & building automation, industrial automation, 
  sensor networks, multimedia networks, convergence of 
  office and building automation, web-services for control 
  networks, IP-based control networks, industrial Ethernet, 
  automation applications, control architectures, 
  standards, security for control networks, ad-hoc 
  networking, real time aspects and QoS of control networks, 
  fault tolerant control networks, wireless networks, 
  energy aware protocols, modelling, smart systems, 
  distributed systems, middleware for control systems.

Call for Papers
  The conference will be structured to have oral 
  sessions only. Proposals for oral papers, in English, 
  are hereby called for on the above or related topics. 
  Prospective authors should indicate their interest 
  in the conference by submitting an extended 300 word 
  abstract of their proposed paper on-line at the 
  conference website. 
  The final papers will be subjected to peer review.

Important Dates
  Submission of abstracts   April 19, 2004
  Submission of papers      May 10, 2004
  Acceptance of papers      May 26, 2004
  Final paper               June 16, 2004
  Conference and tutorials  September 15 - 17, 2004

Track chair: Dietmar Dietrich (Austria)
Track PC Chair: Peter Palensky (Austria)

For further information visit the AFRICON 2004 homepage
http://eerc.up.ac.za/~ieee