CALL FOR PAPERS

The CLCA is recognized as the premier scientific and engineering conference in Latin America. The conference focuses on recent contributions, current tendencies, new challenges and research opportunities relevant to automatic control, control systems theory, automation, robotics, signal processing, and related areas. The CLCA brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss and exchange different perspectives and knowledge. Additionally, it is the ideal scenario to interact and establish links between Latin American and worldwide researchers.

The event will hold Workshops on October 22nd and 23rd. The conference will be from October 24th to 26th, 2018, at Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito - Ecuador.

Consider:

• The papers will be included in the memories of the conference that has ISBN.


• The best papers in ENGLISH will be included in the magazine Maskay that is indexed in SciELO and Latindex, the magazines Enfoque and Visus



CLCA 2018 research areas are:

• Process control
• Electrical Power systems
• Control systems
• Mechatronics
• Robotics
• Education in engineering, and associated topics.





Papers Presentation: All papers must be written in English and are limited to a maximum of 6 pages (in the standard IFAC conference double column format), including figures, tables and references. Items that exceed this limit will be rejected. ↓      Paper style and layout (summary) Paper length and file size The length of regular papers is limited to 6 pages. All the rules are on this web site: Authors Guide. PDF files will be limited to 2 MB in size. Page size and margins A4 paper (210 × 297 mm) Margins: First page: top 35 mm, bottom 25 mm, left/right 15 mm. Other pages: top 25 mm, bottom 25 mm, left/right 15 mm. Main text is two columns, with a 5 mm gap between columns. No headers, footers, or page numbers. Title page The title page must contain the following items, centred on the page with a left and right margin of 30 mm (i.e. a maximum width of 150 mm): Title, with a maximum of 10 words, 14 pt Times boldface. Author names, 10 pt Times boldface. Author affiliations, 10 pt Times italic. An abstract with 50–100 words. A list of 5–10 keywords, preferably taken from the official IFAC keyword list. The abstract and keywords should be separated from the previous and following text by a pair of full width (150 mm) horizontal lines and an 8 pt vertical space. The rest of the title page is body text, formatted in two columns as detailed below. Text format Times Roman 10 pt, or equivalent font, unless explicitly stated otherwise. All paragraphs must be justified, if possible. Single line spacing. The first line of a paragraph should not be indented. 8 pt additional vertical space between paragraphs. Avoid hyphenation at the end of a line. Section headings Section headings must be centred, in capital letters, and numbered consecutively, starting with 1. Sub-section headings should be in capital and lower-case italic letters, numbered 1.1, 1.2, etc, and left justified, with second and subsequent lines indented. Tables All tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals. Headings should be placed above tables, underlined and centred. Leave one line space between the heading and the table. Illustrations All photographs, schemas, graphs and diagrams are to be referred to as figures. Lettering and symbols should be clearly defined either in the caption or in a legend provided as part of the figure. Figures should be placed at the top or bottom of a column wherever possible, as close as possible to the first reference to them in the paper. Figures should be restricted to single-column width unless this would make them illegible. The figure number and caption should be typed below the illustration, left justified, with subsequent lines indented. Equations Equations should be numbered with Arabic numerals. SI units should be used for physical magnitudes. All non-standard abbreviations or symbols must be defined when first mentioned, or a glossary provided. References In the text the surname of the author and the year of publication of the reference should be given. Two or more references by the same authors published in the same year should be differentiated by letters a,b,c etc. For references with more than two authors, text citations should be shortened to the first name followed by et al. Only essential references, which are directly referred to in the text, should be included in the reference list. References must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. References to the same author(s) should be in chronological order. Journal references should include: author’s surname and initials; initials and surnames of remaining authors; year of publication (in brackets); article title (where provided); abbreviated journal title (in italics); volume number and page numbers. References to books should include: author’s surname and initials; initials and surnames of remaining authors; year of publication (in brackets); book title (in italics); name of the publisher and place of publication. References to multi-author works should include after the year of publication: chapter title (where provided); "In:" followed by book title (in italics); initials and name(s) of editors(s) in brackets; volume number and pages; name of the publisher and place of publication. All papers specifications are in: Authors Guide Paper submition: clic here




Registration:




Workshops:

The workshops will be exposed by instructors of the National Polytechnic School, Polytechnic School of the Litoral and prestigious companies of the industrial branch. They will have three global themes.


Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Electric Motors:


• Alternative energies
• Energy Management


Estimation of States in non-Gaussian non-Gaussian systems


• Bayes filter
• Kalman filter
• Non-linear Gaussian filters
• Non-Gaussian non-linear filters


Application Servers in Archestra IDE:


• Creation of Application Servers
• Integration of Data Servers
• Implementation of Remote Station
• Integration of HMI applications based on InTouch
• Real-Time and Historical Trends

Workshops Cost:



Aditional Costs:



All the authors have to confirm the payment registration for the CLCA 2018 until september 30th.

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