The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2020) will be held in Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. SMC 2020 is the flagship conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. It provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to report most recent innovations and developments, summarize state-of-the-art, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and cybernetics. Advances in these fields have increasing importance in the creation of intelligent environments involving technologies interacting with humans to provide an enriching experience and thereby improve quality of life. Papers related to the conference theme are solicited, including theories, methodologies, and
emerging applications.
Regular Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers electronically through the conference website. Papers (6-8 pages) should be concise but contain sufficient details and references to allow critical review.
Special Sessions
Special Sessions provide a focused discussion of new and innovative topics. Special Session organizers should collect at least eight papers, download the special session proposal template from the SMC 2020 website, and submit the completed proposal to the Special Sessions Chairs.
Industrial Papers
These contributions are intended to promote contributions from industries on technology development, innovations, and implementations, which will facilitate collaboration between industrial and academic members of the SMC community.
SMC Junior Papers
SMC 2020 is inviting students and juniors to submit short papers to promote their innovations and contributions in the different research and application fields within SMC, including work in progress and demonstration applications. These papers will not be included in IEEE Xplore.
Workshop Papers
These contributions are intended to promote contributions from applied research and applications, including work in progress, and facilitate increased collaboration between industrial and academic members of the
SMC community.
Note: Accepted papers that are not physically presented at SMC 2020 will be excluded from the IEEE
Xplore.
General Chair
Hossam A. Gabbar, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
General Co-Chair
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University
Program/Area Co-Chairs
Rodney Roberts, Florida State University
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University
Andreas Nürnberger, Otto von Guericke University
Technical Co-Chairs
Maria Pia Fanti, Polytechnic of Bari
Shun-Feng Su, National Taiwan
University of Science and Technology
Saeid Nahavandi, Deakin University
Feiqi Deng, South China University of Technology
Special Sessions Co-Chairs
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University
Enrique Herrera Viedma, University of Granada
Robert Kozma, University of Memphis
Publication Co-Chairs
Dmitry Goldgof, University of South Florida
Mohamed Elgendi, University of British Columbia
Hamed Shah-Mansouri, University of British Columbia
Awards Chair
Larry Hall, Florida State University
Philip Chen, University of Macau Poster Sessions
Co-Chairs
Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University Industrial Track
Co-Chairs
Fakhri Karray, University of Waterloo Pierluigi Siano, University of Salerno
Workshops Co-Chairs
Chris Nemeth, Applied Research Associates, Inc.
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa
SMC WiE Co-Chairs
Birsen Donmez, University of Toronto
Karen Panetta, Tufts University Vanessa Batista Schramm, Federal University of Campina Grande
SMC Junior Chair
György Eigner, Óbuda University
Tutorials Chair
Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong
Submission Co-Chairs
Ching-Chih Tsai, National Chung Hsing University
Maurizio Repetto, Politecnico di Torino
Registration Chair
Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
Exhibition and Donations Chair
Hugo Sanchez-Reategui, IEEE Toronto
Publicity Co-Chairs
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Politecnico di Bari
Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University
Finance Chair
Feras Awwadah, FWS Accounting and Tax
Services
Treasurer
Manir Isham, Loyalist College Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
Mehrdad Tirandazian, Ryerson University
Ahmed M. Othman, University of Ontario Institute of Tech
Webmaster
Abul Hasan Fahad, University of Waterloo