Two-day Ninth Control Instrumentation System Conference - CISCON-2012

Updated on: Thursday, November 15, 2012

The two-day Ninth Control Instrumentation System Conference - CISCON-2012 - will be organized by the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, MIT, Manipal from Friday.

Vinod V Thomas, Director MIT, said the theme of the conference is "Emerging Trends in Industrial Automation and Control." He said that papers from the following areas like control systems, process instrumentation, soft computing, power systems, electronics and communication, robotics and automation, aerospace engineering, biomedical, virtual instrumentation will be presented at the conference.

Shreesha C, head, department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, said the pre-conference tutorial, conducted by Dr. Yogananda Jeppu, from MOOG India, will be held on Thursday at MIT.

Of the 120 technical papers received, 95 were accepted after peer review and 60 of them have registered for presentation. "We have received papers from many premier institutions across the country like IIT's, NIT's, etc., Also we have received many research papers from research centers like BARC, ISRO, IGCAR etc., The papers will be presented in 6 parallel sessions," Shreesha said.

He also added the best papers of the conference would be published in the Bonfring International Journals. All published articles would be included in Google Scholar, Cross Ref and Directory of Open Access Journals. "The proceedings of CISCON-2012 will be indexed in Bonfring Digital Library, with appropriate copyright access from individual authors. All published articles will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for unique identification of the article". Dr C.G. Nayak is the coordinator of the Conference and Cyril Joseph the convener.

The conference is supported by DRDO and CSIR, Government of India and will be inaugurated by Dr. Chandradathan, Director, Satish Dhawan Space Center (SHAR) at 9 am on Friday. Dr. G. K. Prabhu, Registrar, Manipal University will be the guest of honor. Dr. Chandradathan will also release a book titled "Digital Control Systems" authored by Dr. V. I. George and Dr. Ciji Pearl Kurien and published by Cengage Learning. The keynote address will be delivered by eminent speakers from industries like Mathworks, Lanika Solutions, LDRA Technology and MOOG India.

Two-day Ninth Control Instrumentation System Conference - CISCON-2012

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