Contributions covering theoretical developments and practical applications, including but not limited to the following technical areas, are invited:

• Systems Science & Engineering

• Conflict Resolution

• Cooperative Systems and Control

• Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems

• Decision Support Systems

• Discrete Event Systems and Petri Nets

• Distributed Intelligent Systems

• Enterprise Architecture and Engineering

• Enterprise Information Systems

• Grey Systems

• Homeland Security

• Smart Metering

• Infrastructure Systems and Services

• Intelligent Green Production Systems

• Intelligent Learning in Control Systems

• Intelligent Power and Energy Systems

• Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Intelligent Vehicle Systems and Control

• Large-Scale System of Systems

• Logistics Informatics and Industrial Security Systems

• Medical Mechatronics

• Model-Based Systems Engineering

• Robotic Systems

• Service Systems and Organization

• System of Systems

• Smart Sensor Networks

• System Modeling and Control

• Systems Biology

• Technology Assessment

• Human-Machine Systems

• Assistive Technology

• Augmented Cognition

• Brain-based Information Communications

• Design Methods

• Entertainment Engineering

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Human Factors

• Human Performance Modeling

• Human-Machine Cooperation and Systems

• Human-Machine Interface and Communications

• Web Intelligence and Interaction

• Information Visualization

• Information Systems for Design/Marketing

• Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems

• Interactive and Digital Media

• Interactive Design Science and Engineering

• Kansei (sense/emotion) Engineering

• Medical Informatics

• Multimedia Systems

• Multi-User Interaction

• Resilience Engineering

• Supervisory Control

• Systems Safety and Security

• Team Performance and Training Systems

• User Interface Design

• Wearable Computing

• Affective Computing

• Companion Technologies

• Mental Models

• Cybernetics

• Agent-Based Modeling

• Artificial Immune Systems

• Artificial Life

• Biometric Systems and Bioinformatics

• Computational Intelligence

• Computational Life Science

• Cybernetics for Informatics

• Evolutionary Computation

• Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems

• Information Assurance and Intelligent Multimedia Computation

• Heuristic Algorithms

• Hybrid models of NN, Fuzzy Systems and Evolutionary Computing

• Image Processing/Pattern Recognition

• Fuzzy Systems and Applications

• Intelligent Internet Systems

• Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent

• Machine Learning

• Machine Vision

• Media Computing

• Medical Informatics

• Neural Networks and Applications

• Optimization

• Self-Organization

• Swarm Intelligence