Automated Guided Vehicles, Adaptive Control, Control Education, Biomedical Engineering and Biosystems Automation, Discrete Event Systems, Control Theory and Application, Estimation and Identification, Electronic Commerce and Office Automation, Fault Detection, Factory Modeling and Automation, Fuzzy and Neural Systems, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Instruments and Vibration Control, Industrial Process Control, Intelligent and AI Based Control, Integrated Manufacturing, Learning Systems, Intelligent Automation, Man-machine Interactions, Linear Systems, Material Processing and Control, Manufacturing Control and Automation Engineering, Motion Control, Modeling of Complex Systems, Network Intelligence and Network Control, Multi-agent systems, Optimal Control, Nonlinear Systems and Control, Process Automation, Petri-Nets and Applications Petri-, Real-time Systems, Process Control & Instrumentation, Robust and Control, Robotics, Sensor/data fusion, Sensor networks and networked control and Smart Structures.