Control Engineering Practice Call for Papers Special Issue on Advanced Alarm Monitoring for Complex Industrial Facilities Alarm systems play critically important roles for safety and efficiency of modern industrial plants such as oil refineries, petrochemical facilities, mineral processes, pulp-paper and power plants. However, in industrial practice many existing alarm systems are associated with poor performance, with the most common observation being that "there are far too many alarms to be handled by industrial plant operators". Driven by the big gap between poor performance of industrial alarm systems and their importance for operational safety and efficiency, alarm systems have received increasing attentions recently from both academic and industrial communities. Many new technologies for alarm systems have been emerging in recent several years, but certainly there are far more problems to be solved in order to fill the big gap mentioned above. These emerging techniques are interdisciplinary, involving knowledge from process operation, statistics, signal processing, human factors engineering and other areas. In addition, it has become apparent that the concepts and related unsolved problems for alarm systems are very unique, for example, the detection and removal of nuisance alarms including chattering alarms, oscillatory alarms, and long-standing alarms, the assignment of dynamic alarm priorities and the analysis and prediction of alarm floods. These problems are very different from relatively well- developed techniques in related areas such as fault detection and diagnosis, and process controller design, even though these areas are closely interrelated to some extent. Therefore, a special issue on Advanced Alarm Monitoring for Complex Industrial Facilities is proposed, in order to present some new techniques for alarm systems, and attract more academic researchers and industrial practitioners into working and shaping this fascinating and important area. Guest Editors: Jiandong Wang, Peking University, China, [log in to unmask] Fan Yang, Tsinghua University, China, [log in to unmask] Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta, Canada, [log in to unmask] Sirish L. Shah, University of Alberta, Canada, [log in to unmask] Chris Aldrich, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, [log in to unmask] Timelines Submission deadline: 1 Mar 2017 Final acceptance notification: 1 Oct 2017 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/control-engineering-practice/call-for- papers/special-issue-on-advanced-alarm-monitoring-for-complex-indus