Special sessions

How to propose a special session

To enhance the technical program and focus on specific topics and areas, ETFA 2008 conference will include special sessions, in addition to regular ones.

Special sessions can cover topics which belong to a specific track, or multi-track subjects, or novel topics not included in the description of tracks, but in the technical scope of the conference.

Proposals for a special session should be sent by Special Session Organizers to the Special Session Co-Chairs John Gialelis (gialelis@ece.upatras.gr) and Luis Gomes (lugo@ieee.org) taking into account the Special Sessions Organization Guidelines (see document in the information bar on the right).

Authors who want to submit a paper to a Special Session are asked to contact the Session Chair of the intended Special Session by email before they submit. Papers should be submitted via the paper submission system (see [Link]) like other submissions. All formatting guidelines apply to Special Session submissions, too.

Approved special sessions

Special session 1

Control of Traffic / Transportation Systems

Session Chair:

Horst Wedde, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

Special session 2

Development of Automation Systems: The impact of IEC standards

Session Co-Chairs:

Prof. Kleanthis Thramboulidis, University of Patras, Greece

Prof. Georg Frey, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Special session 3

Embedded Systems Security & Dependability

Session Co-Chairs:

D. Serpanos, University of Patras & ISI, Greece

W. Wolf, Georgia Tech, USA

Special session 4

Auto-ID applications in the supply chain

Session Co-Chairs:

Ioannis Mourtos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Katerina Pramatari, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Athanasios Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Institute, Patras, Greece

Special session 5

Industrial Agents

Session Co-Chairs:

Paulo Leitao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal

Armando W. Colombo, Schneider Electric, Germany

Special session 6

Building and Home Automation

Session Co-Chairs:

Alexander Klapproth, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Swiss

Stefan Knauth, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Swiss

Special session 7

Supervision of Networked Control Systems

Session Chair:

Christophe Aubrun, University of Nancy, France

Special session 8

Interactive media with personalized networked devices

Session Chair:

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Mingyu Lim, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland

George Papagiannakis, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Special session 9

Tackling enterprise interoperability topic through various points of view

Session Co-Chairs:

Frederick Benaben, ENSTIMAC, France

Vincent Chapurlat, EMA, France

Athanasios P. Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Institute ISI, Patras

John Gialelis, University of Patras, Greece