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CALL FOR PAPERS
IFAC DYCOPS 2013
10th International Symposium on DYnamics and COntrol of Process Systems
18-20 December 2013, Mumbai, India
http://www.dycops2013.org

Dear colleague,

This is a friendly reminder and last invitation to the 10th International Symposium on DYnamics and COntrol of Process Systems, IFAC DYCOPS 2013, which will be held in Mumbai, India from 18 to 20 December, 2013.

Organized under the auspices of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the DYCOPS 2013 Symposium is intended to bring together scientists and engineers from universities, R&D laboratories, vendor companies and the process industries to focus attention on the role of Process Systems Engineering in addressing new challenges posed in different areas including energy, environment and sustainability.

Important dates are:
- Deadline for receipt of draft papers: April 20th, 2013
- Author Notification: June 30, 2013
- Final paper submission deadline: July 31, 2013

We cordially invite you to consider submitting one or more original papers in the broad areas of Process Systems Engineering including but not limited to the following topics:
- Process Optimization and Control
- Interaction Between Design and Control
- Modelling and Identification
- Batch Process Modelling, Optimization and Control
- Process and Performance Monitoring, Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety
- Process Scheduling and Decision Support, Integration between Scheduling and Control
- Inferential Sensing, State Estimation and Sensor Development

We look forward to seeing you in Mumbai. 

Kind regards,

Mike Henson (IPC Chair) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Gabriele Pannocchia (IPC Co-Chair) University of Pisa, Italy
Ravindra Gudi (NOC Chair), IIT Bombay, India
Sachin Patwardhan (NOC Co-Chair), IIT Bombay, India

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