The 13th APCA International Conference on Control and Soft Computing (CONTROLO 2018) will be held in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal, on 4-6 June 2018.

The conference is organized under the sponsorship of the Portuguese Association of Automatic Control (APCA), a national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), which is one of the additional co-sponsors of the event. This 13th edition of the conference is a special landmark for APCA, as it coincides with the celebration of its 25th anniversary.

Theoretical and applied contributions will be accepted in the fields of Control Systems, Soft Computing and Automation. All peer reviewed and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library, while the proceedings will be submitted to Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC and Scopus for indexation. In addition, authors of selected papers will be called upon to resubmit extended versions of their papers to a designated high impact-factor International Journal.

CONTROLO 2018 intends to emerge as a world-class international forum for the presentation and discussion of new advances and research outcomes, particularly in the conference’s scope, and will also be an appealing opportunity for informal networking in the fields of Automatic Control, Automation and Soft-Computing, and related topics.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 12th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control – CONTROLO 2016, to be held in Guimarães, Portugal, September 14th to 16th, 2016.

This conference is organized by Algoritmi Research Center / School of Engineering of University of Minho and INESCTEC under sponsorship of APCA, the Portuguese association of automatic control and national member organization of IFAC – the International Federation of Automatic Control who co-sponsors the event.

Contributions are welcome in both theoretical developments and practical implementations in all areas involving systems and control.

CONTROLO 2016 will provide an excellent opportunity for presenting new results and to discuss the latest research and developments in the field of automatic control. Participation of engineers and other scientists from industry is particularly welcome.

We also intend that CONTROLO 2016 will become a privileged place to affirm the understated contribution of control and automation in general to human well-being.

The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering that are indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, MetaPress, Springerlink.