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Call for papers: Advanced Robotics

Special issue: Continuum Robots and Manipulation


Continuum robots are usually defined to be those featuring ?continuous
backbone structures?, i.e. structures without the skeletal design of
traditional rigid-link robot manipulators. In this sense
continuum robots are ?invertebrate-like?, as opposed to the
?vertebrate-like? nature of traditional robots. The main feature of
continuum structures is their inherent smoothness. Instead of bending at
discrete points (joints, or ?elbows?) along the ?backbone?, they can ?
in theory ? smoothly bend anywhere along their structure. Almost all
continuum robot designs exhibit significant compliance, i.e. they
inherently present a rather than ?stiff? interface to the environment.
As such, two functions in particular define the potential advantages of
continuum robots: safe operation in congested environments and whole arm
manipulation under imprecise and uncertain conditions. There has been a
growing interest in research of continuum structures and continuum
manipulation in the last decade. However, many technical challenges
remain before continuum robots can be widely used in applications.

We invite papers for this special issue to address the many fundamental
challenges related to continuum robots and manipulation, from design,
kinematics, and dynamics, to sensing, planning, and control. We also
invite papers focused on applications of continuum robots, from outdoor
field operations, to indoor tasks in cluttered structures, to medical
applications. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Design of continuum robots
- Kinematics and dynamics
- Planning and control
- Sensing-based on-line adaptation
- Application-oriented methodology or technology
- Performance evaluation

Both high-quality original papers and review papers will be considered.
All papers will be reviewed following the reviewing procedure of
Advanced Robotics.

Instructions on Submission:

The full-length manuscript (either PDF file or MS word file) should be
submitted by August 15, 2014 to the office of Advanced Robotics, the
Robotics Society of Japan through the homepage
(http://www.rsj.or.jp/advanced_e/submission). Instructions to the
Authors and the sample form of the manuscript are available at the
homepage. Please send another copy to the guest editors
(iwalker@clemson.edu, xiao@uncc.edu, motiyama@iit.tsukuba.ac.jp) for
submission confirmation.

Important Dates:

?August 15, 2014: Paper submission
?November 1, 2014: Decisions to authors
December 15, 2014: Submission of revised papers
?March 15, 2015: Final Decision
July 2015: Publication


Guest-Editors:

Ian Walker
Clemson University

Jing Xiao
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Hiromi Mochiyama
University of Tsukuba

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Elsevier Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Journal

Special Issue on Knowledge Driven Robotics and Manufacturing

Deadline for Paper Submission: April 15, 2014

Introduction:
Today's state-of-the-art robots are capable of sub-millimeter movement accuracy.
However, they are often programmed by an operator using crude positional controls
from a teach pendent. Reprogramming these robots when their task is altered requires
that the robot cell be often taken offline for a human-led teaching period. In an
industrial setting, for small batch processors or other customers who must
frequently change their line configuration, this frequent down time may be unacceptable.

The robotic systems of tomorrow need to be capable, flexible, and agile. These
systems need to perform their duties at least as well as human counterparts, be
quickly re-tasked to other operations, and cope with a wide variety of unexpected
environmental and operational changes. To be successful, these systems need to combine
domain expertise, knowledge of their own skills and limitations, and both semantic and
geometric information.

Topics:
Papers are solicited for this special issue on the following topics (or on related topics
not listed below):
- Industrial automation based on formal knowledge representations
- Robot agility through knowledge-based approaches
- Knowledge representation and ontology development for robotics and automation
- Ontology-based approaches for engineering and industrial domains
- Reasoning techniques for robotics and automation
- Ontology engineering frameworks and methodologies
- Knowledge-based robot control
- Knowledge-based robot-robot and human-robot collaboration
- Human-robot intention recognition

Submission Information:
We invite you to contribute with original manuscripts based on your research related
to the above-mentioned topics to this upcoming special issue. If you are interested in
submitting, please contact the managing guest editor at
craig.schlenoff@nist.gov to express your intent.

Submission Website Opens: March 15, 2014
Submission Website Closes: April 15, 2014

The authors will submit their papers to the Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors'
guidelines can be found at:
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/rob...de-for-authors.

Please indicate that you are submitting to the "Knowledge Driven Robotics and Manufacturing"
Special Issue.

Guest Editors:
Craig Schlenoff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Stephen Balakirsky, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), USA
Edson Prestes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

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Special Issue on Whole-body control of contacts and dynamics for humanoid robots

Paper Submission Deadline: August 15, 2014


== Introduction ==

The Autonomous Robots journal invites papers for a special issue titled
"Whole-body control of contacts and dynamics for humanoid robots." To act
in unstructured natural environments as humans do, contacts and physical
interactions are necessary and unavoidable. In recent years, whole-body
control techniques have matured to the point where various humanoid robots
can robustly interact with their environment. Robots may exploit
predictable contacts to aid in goal achievement, as well as learn dynamics
of contact to generalize over novel tasks and domains. They may regulate
their compliance to cope with unpredictable contacts and ensure safe
behaviours. While these achievements are a major milestone for robotics,
they still need to be applied to more challenging situations, inspired by
natural settings and physical interaction scenarios. There is a strong need
for advanced methods that can handle multiple contacts, unforeseen or
intentional, with different rigidity properties, and guarantee the robust,
autonomous execution of actions (balancing, walking, manipulation) in
variable contexts.

== Focus ==

This special issue focuses on control and learning techniques applied to
estimation, control and adaptation of whole-body dynamics, movement and
contact forces that go beyond basic balancing abilities. We invite
submissions of research papers that address important challenges in robot
control of multiple contacts under uncertainty, encouraging discussion of
real-world architectural frameworks. We also solicit submissions that
rigorously discuss and compare current state of the art techniques, as well
as recent advances in the field, or open challenges. Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:

== Topics ==

What is the state-of-the-art in whole-body dynamics estimation?
What is the state of the art in dynamics and contacts simulation?
How much can we reliably learn from simulations? How can we validate
simulations?
How can modern techniques benefit from studies in human motor control?
How can we build robots that facilitate balancing on uneven or compliant
terrains?
How can we generalize efficient control techniques to deal with contacts of
different nature and properties?
How can we benefit from recent results in machine learning, e.g.,
structured learning, Gaussian processes, conditional random fields, deep
belief networks?
How can robots make use of reinforcement learning, or other
self-improvement methods, to adapt to changing environments and control
tasks?
How can robots learn to handle compliant contacts?
Which representations can leverage the acquisition of complete multi-modal
models of the environment through physical exploration?
How can robots determine optimal actions on non-rigid objects?
How can robots exploit contacts to achieve goal-oriented actions?
Which sets of sensors can be used to estimate the physical interaction of
the robot with its environment?
How can robots exploit physical forces from interaction with humans?
How can robots learn to detect and exploit the salient events in human
whole-body tasks, e.g. when humans make and break contact?
How can human task knowledge be efficiently transferred to robots?
What are the key challenges and can we decide on benchmark tasks that allow
us to measure and compare progress in this field?
What are new metrics and practical methods for evaluating platform,
software, human-robot interaction, and overall system performance in the
field?

== Important Dates ==

Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2014
First reviews completed: November 15, 2014
Revised papers due: December 15, 2014
Final decision: December 30, 2014

== Submission ==

Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines:
http://www.springer.com/engineering/.../journal/10514
http://static.springer.com/sgw/docum..._CODYCO_v3.pdf
All papers will be reviewed following the regular reviewing procedure of
the Journal.

== Guest Editors ==

Serena Ivaldi (serena.ivaldi@isir.upmc.fr ) - ISIR, CNRS & University
Pierre Marie Curie
Jan Babic (jan.babic@ijs.si ) - Jozef Stefan Institute
Michael Mistry (m.n.mistry@bham.ac.uk ) - University of Birmingham
Robin Murphy (murphy@cse.tamu.edu ) - Texas A&M University

== Contact ==

For more information, contact: serena.ivaldi@isir.upmc.fr


--
Dr. Jan Babic, +386 1 4773638
Senior Researcher jan.babic@ijs.si
Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia http://www.ijs.si/~jbabic

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http://www.codyco.eu/

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International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
DARS 2014
November 2-5, 2014, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea*



The goal of the Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems is to
exchange and stimulate research ideas to realize advanced distributed
robotic systems. Distributed robotics is a rapidly growing,
interdisciplinary research area lying at the intersection of computer
science, communication and control systems, and electrical and mechanical
engineering. Technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and
applications will be presented and discussed during a single-track, 3-days
symposium. DARS 2014 will build upon past successes and provide an exciting
environment for researchers to present and discuss their novel theoretical
results, implementations, and applications.

DARS successfully took place in 1992, 1994, and 1996 in Japan(Riken, Wako).
Successive editions happened in Karlsruhe, Germany (1998); Knoxville,
Tennessee, USA (2000); Fukuoka, Japan (2002); Toulouse, France(2004);
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2006); Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan (2008);
Lausanne, Switzerland(2010); Baltimore, Maryland, USA(2012).





*Important Dates*

May 30, 2014: Submission of full-length regular papers

August 10, 2014: Notification of regular paper acceptance

August 11 ~ September 30, 2014: Early registration

August 31, 2014: Submission of work-in-progress papers (for poster
presentations only)

September 30, 2014: Notification of work-in-progress paper acceptance

October 10, 2014: Submission of final 'camera-ready' papers for conference
proceedings





*Topics include but are not limited to:*

- Architectures for teams of robots

- Self-organizing and self-assembling robotic systems

- Swarm robotic systems

- Hybrid symbiotic teams (humans and robots, animals and robots)

- Learning and adaptation in teams of robots

- Modular robotics

- Localization and navigation in multi-robot systems

- Multi-robot and multi-vehicle motion coordination

- Distributed cooperative perception

- Distributed cooperative action

- Distributed control and planning

- Control issues in multi-robot systems

- Performance metrics for robot teams

- Distributed decision making

- Sensor and actuator networks

- Networking issues in multi-robot systems

- Wireless and robotic sensor networks

- Multi-robot applications in exploration, inspection, coverage, search and
rescue, service, environmental monitoring, etc.





*Paper Submission*

All accepted regular papers (both oral and poster presentations) will be
included in the Proceedings of DARS 2014, Distributed Autonomous Robotic
Systems - The 12th International Symposium, which will be published as a
volume of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) Series. Please be
advised that work-in-progress papers (poster presentation only) are not
included in this STAR volume.



To have more information, please refer to the website at
http://www.kros.org/dars2014/03web01.php<http://www.ozmailer.com/fcso/URL_tra...14/03web01.php>
.




*DARS 2014 Secretariat*

* #506, The Korea Science and Technology Center, (635-4,Yeoksam-dong) 22,
7Gil, Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea (ZIP Code: 135-703)Tel.
+82-2-783-0306, Fax. +82-2-783-0307, Email. dars@kros.org <dars@kros.org>,
Website: http://www.kros.org/dars2014

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Call for contributions to Mobile Manipulation Newsletter

The IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Mobile Manipulation (http://mobilemanipulation.org/) is putting together the next issue of its newsletter and would like to invite you to submit contributions relevant to the mobile manipulation community in one of the following categories:
-New robot videos
-New project websites
-New code contributions
-New positions (students/faculty/staff)
-Workshops or Special sessions at coming conferences
-General announcements

Please send your link/announcement by March 31st to [maximo.roa (at) dlr.de] and it will
be included in the coming Spring issue of the Newsletter, to appear in April.

Looking forward to your contributions!
Dr. Maximo A. Roa
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
www.robotic.dlr.de/Maximo.Roa

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دوره آنلاین و مجانی مدل سازی و شبیه سازی با استفاده از متلب. (امروز آغاز شد)

در انتهای این دوره نیز مدرک ارائه می شود! این دوره مخصوص خیلی از افرادی است که با متلب مشکلات فراوان دارند! از طرفی به کسانی که به رباتیک و هوش مصنوعی نیز علاقه دارند هم پیشنهاد می شود! در آن حل مسائل کنترلی و کمی هم از پردازش تصویر با استفاده از متلب نیز بررسی می شود.

و از همه مهمتر تجربه ای برای گذراندن واحدی به زبان انگلیسی است که می تونه برای علاقه مندان به اپلای مفید باشه.

خوبی بزرگ این کورس اینه که اولا هیچ کدام از فیلم های آموزشی ی از youtube نیس که فیل تر باشه، ثانیا به راحتی قابل دانلود هستند و هم می تونید آنلاین ببینید.


https://iversity.org/c/13?r=df2a5
Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB®

APR 2014
ENGLISH
INTERDISCIPLINARY

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ECAI 2014

one-day workshop on

Multi-Agent Coordination in Robotic Exploration

http://robotics.fel.cvut.cz/macorex14/
August 18, 2014, Prague



Call for Papers

Robotic exploration is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics that
addresses one of the most challenging application scenarios to provide an
efficient approach to collect information about an unknown environment.
There are many motivational scenarios for practical deployment of mobile
robots and probably even more approaches promising benefits from
deploying several mobile robots. However, what are the real performance
guarantees of the modern sophisticated exploration strategies? Do the
novel methods and experimental demonstrations provide qualitatively
better results in a new principle way or are these improvements only the
results of a better tuning for the particular platforms and scenarios?
What is the bridge between algorithmic complexity and robotic
limitations? How to define scalable solutions?

The goal of the workshop is to foster a discussion about approaches and
paradigms studied in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-agent system
(MAS) communities with the robotic limitations and requirements arising
from their practical deployment in multi-robot exploration. In
particular, the workshop is intended to explore the aforementioned
questions within the context of the following scientific challenges:

How balancing algorithmic (MAS) complexity and robotics limitation?
How to measure performance in multi-robot exploration?
How to facilitate the robotic deployment of AI strategies?
What are the robotic limitations needed to be considered in the
exploration strategies? What are the multi-robot benchmarks allowing
qualitative and quantitative comparisons? What is the niche of
multi-agent coordination mechanisms and capabilities of nowadays
multi-robot systems?


INVITED TALKS:
Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg, Germany (to be confirmed)

TOPICS:
- Distributed algorithms and decentralized approaches
- Robustness of the exploration policies
- Level of cooperation
- Communication complexity
- Bio-inspired and novel computational decision-making approaches
- Benchmarks, performance metrics, and methodology of experimenting

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop Paper Submission: May 25, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: June 23, 2014
Camera Ready Deadline: July 13, 2014
Workshop: August 18, 2014

SUBMISSIONS:

Submitted papers should be six pages in length in the IEEE Computer
Society two-column camera-ready format. It can be prepared either with
the Word template or the Latex package available at
http://www.computer.org. Submissions must be made electronically as a
single Portable Document Format (PDF) file via the workshop submission
site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=macorex14


ORGANIZERS:
Jan Faigl Czech Technical University in Prague, Agent Technology Center, Czech Republic
Olivier Simonin INSA Lyon, CITI lab, France


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Charpillet, F. INRIA, France
Stachniss, C. University of Bonn, Germany
Amigoni, F. Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Hollinger, G. Oregon State University, USA
Franchi, A. CNRS LAAS laboratory, France
Faigl, J. Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Lucidarme, P. LISA Lab. Universit? d'Angers, France
Kaminka, G. Bar Ilan University, Israel
Matignon, L. Universit? Lyon 1, LIRIS lab, France

Contact: faiglj@fel.cvut.cz

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HUMABOT CHALLENGE - Robot Competition at HUMANOIDS 2014

Official Announcement

We are proud to announce the HUMABOT CHALLENGE, to be held at IEEE-RAS
HUMANOIDS on November 20th 2014.

For details see http://www.irs.uji.es/humabot/

The competition will focus on algorithmic development for fully autonomous
robots, i.e., robots that operate with no external control. In this
edition, tests will be held in a small-scale kitchen of a house.

The HUMABOT CHALLENGE is characterized by the use of the middle-size
humanoid platforms. It is intended for using the Darwin-Op platform
manufactured by Robotis, or any other robot with similar characteristics.

IEEE-RAS HUMANOIDS?2014 provides travel support for students participating
in the HUMABOT CHALLENGE 2014. In order to be granted travel support,
students must submit an official application form. The student's travel
expense will be partially supported, depending on the number of applicants
and availability of funds. The maximum travel support is 2.000 EURO for the
team depending on the country of origin.

IEEE-RAS HUMANOIDS?2014 will award the following prizes for the HUMABOT
CHALLENGE 2014 winner teams: 1.000 EURO - 1st place, 700 EURO - 2nd place, 300 EURO -
3rd place

See the contest details and official rules for more information on prizes
and eligibility.

Local committee

Enric Cervera (UJI, Spain)
Juan C Garc?a (UJI, Spain)
Fernando G?mez (UHU, Spain)
Guillem Aleny? (UPC, Spain)

International Board

Pedro J Sanz (UJI, Spain), Competition Chair
Pedro Lima (IST, Portugal)
Luca Iocchi (Universit? di Roma ''La Sapienza'', Italy)
Sven Behnke (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t Bonn, Germany)
Peter Stone (Univ. of Texas, USA)
Eiichi Yoshida (CNRS-AIST JRL, Japan)
Alan FT Winfield (UWE Bristol, UK)

We look forward to seeing you in the HUMABOT CHALLENGE!

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Springer Journal of Robotics and Biomimetics

http://www.springer.com/engineering/.../journal/40638

Special Issue on Medical Robotics
Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30, 2014

===============

Introduction:

Robotics and Biomimetics is a high-quality journal that publishes original
theoretical and experimental work in Robotics and Biomimetics. Robotics,
traditionally as an interdisciplinary area of engineering areas, has been
rapidly growing since the 1970s. In recent years, biological science is
bringing new breakthroughs in robotics science and technology, which in
turn bring benefits to biomedicine.

Interactions between robotics and biology involve two aspects. On one hand,
biological ideas and phenomena are inspiring innovations in every technical
area in robotics including mechanisms, actuation, sensing, control, etc. On
the other hand, applying robotics technology to biology and medicine is
significantly contributing to new understandings of biological systems, and
new methodologies in the field of medical robotics.

This special issue will focus on the recent advancements in medical
robotics and its associated leveraging areas. The main topics include, but
are not limited to:

- Rehabilitation Robotics
- Surgical Robotics
- Image-Guided Therapy
- Interventional Devices
- Human-in-the-loop System
- Computer-Assisted Surgery
- Tele-medicine
- Health monitoring
- Multi-modal sensor fusion
- Human-Robot Interactions
- Soft Medical Robotics
- Multi-modal sensor fusion
- Artificial Intelligence in Medical Robotics


Submission Information:

We invite you to contribute with original manuscripts based on your
research related to the above-mentioned topics to this upcoming special
issue. If you are interested in submitting, please use the online
submission system to submit your manuscript. If you are submitting a
manuscript to a particular Special Issue, please refer to its specific name
in your covering letter. Each article published by Robotics and Biomimetics
follows a specific format, as detailed in the corresponding instructions
for authors.

For more information about the journal and paper submission, please visit
the journal
website:

http://www.jrobio.com/

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2014

Please indicate that you are submitting to the "Medical Robotics" Special
Issue.


Editor-in-Chief

Yunhui Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Guest Editors:

Hongliang Ren, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yili Fu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Haoyong Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Max Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

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nternational Journal of Social Robotics (SORO), Springer
Special Issue on:

*Taking Care of Each Other: The Future of Social Companion Robots*

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Guest Editors: Astrid Weiss & Tamara Lorenz
Contact: astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at <mailto:astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at>,
t.lorenz@tum.de <mailto:t.lorenz@tum.de>
(you can download the CfP at: http://workshops.acin.tuwien.ac.at/ISCR2013/)


Important dates:

Submission of Manuscripts (deadline):......01-Jul-14
Notification of Acceptance:................15-Oct-14
Submission of Final Paper:.................15-Dec-14
Final Acceptance:..........................15-Feb-15
Publication:...............................01-May-15


Background:

The aspect that users should establish some kind of long-term emotional/
social bonding towards social companion robots becomes more and more
prominent in HRI research. Companion robots are considered as beneficial
for their user if they express and recognize emotions, behave socially
normative, and establish something like a care-taker/care-receiver
interaction paradigm. Therefore, fundamental questions arise,

* What makes a companion robot social?
* How can we evaluate if the interaction with a social companion robot
is "successful"?
* Which ethical concerns need to be considered if companion robots are
more and more developed and perceived as emotional/ social entity?


Although a lot of studies and concepts for companion robots in elderly
care, education, and therapy exist, the research on social companion
robots is lacking controlled empirical, reproducible (long-term) studies
in the laboratory and in the field, which deepen our understanding of
the underlying sociological and psychological mechanisms when
interacting with this type of robot. Similarly, technological challenges
for the development of a user-companion relationship with a robot by
integrating convincing social interaction skills are hardly addressed in
a platform-independent manner.

With this special issue we aim at collecting an overview on empirical as
well as theoretical state-of-the-art research contributions on social
companion robots. Therefore, the International Journal of Social
Robotics (SORO) invites researchers from a wide range of disciplines,
such as social and behavior-based robotics, cognitive sciences and
psychology, sociology, and philosophy etc. to submit to the Special Issue.


Topics (solicited include, but not limited to):

* Empirical, hypothesis-driven qualitative and quantitative work,
which contributes to the understanding of social companion robots:
o during interaction between humans and/or humans and robots/
artificial agents.
o using behavioral (explicit and/or implicit) and/or
self-reporting measures.
o conducted in the lab or field.
o with a special emphasis on ecological validity and reproducibility.

* Reviews on
o existing methods and measures of social interaction evaluation.
o synchrony and reciprocity of Human- and/or Human-Robot Interaction.
o companion robots for elderly care, therapy and/or education.

* Ethical considerations on social companion robots
o with a special emphasis on companionship and emotional
attachment aspects.


Authors who intend to submit a manuscript are encouraged to contact as
soon as possible both guest editors:
Astrid Weiss astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at <mailto:astrid.weiss@tuwien.ac.at>
Tamara Lorenz t.lorenz@tum.de <mailto:t.lorenz@tum.de>
in order to ensure that the planned submission lies within the aims and
scope of the special issue.

For more information and updates, please visit:
http://workshops.acin.tuwien.ac.at/ISCR2013/

Submission On-Line:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/soro/
SORO considers also accompanying multimedia material.

Description of the Journal, Aims and Scope, Authors' information:
http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12369

Please submit the journal manuscripts by 01 July 2014.

The Editorial Board is committed to speedy review, fast publication, and
high scientific impact.