Please be informed that the Organizing Committee of 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation – MED 2021 –  (www.med2021.poliba.it) [22-25 June 2021- Bari, Italy] has extended the submission date of the invited session proposal to 14th January 2021, which is the very final deadline.

The paper submissions are open and are possible by 15th January 2021, this date will be susceptible to extension too.

The safety and health of all colleagues, awaited participants, and guests is a top priority for MED 2021 Organizing Committee, therefore, we are constantly and closely following the pandemic situation, as well the recommendations of health authorities.

With the aim of facilitating participation in the conference, the MED2021 will be held as a hybrid conference allowing registrants the choice to participate physically or to connect remotely.

Hopefully, the pandemic situation will be much better in June 2021 and international travel will be restored. However, due to the significant uncertainty worldwide at this time, MED 2021 provides a priori the option of online participation, which will allow everybody to participate even if their home country has travel restrictions. Online participation will have reduced registration fees.

We strongly encourage you, your teammates and colleagues to submit papers to this outstanding Conference and present your results in person or on-line.

Topics of the conference:
The general conference topic is Smart Cities and Smart Systems.

Authors from academia and industry are encouraged to join the event and share their research results and empirical insights focusing on one of the following themes:

Submissions and Publications (http://med2021.poliba.it/wordpress/submission-and-publications/):

• Accepted Regular and Invited Session Regular papers that are being presented at the MED2021 will be published in the proceedings of the event and will be made available in IEEE Explore and indexed in Scopus.
• Proposals for invited sessions, tutorials/workshops, as well as papers should be submitted via PaperCept: https://controls.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
• Note that the conference allows for the submission of novel/cutting edge ideas with potential, however, not yet fully developed, in the form of Invited Session Presentation Only and Presentation Only papers, which will be presented at the conference but will not be published in the conference proceedings.
• Invited session proposals can include Invited Session Presentation Only papers.

Important dates:

• Tutorials/Workshop proposal – EXTENDED: 31 December 2020
• Invited Session proposal – EXTENDED: 14 January 2020
• Submission of Regular, Presentation Only, Invited Session Regular, Invited Session Presentation Only papers – 15 January 2021 (SUSCEPTIBLE OF EXTENSION)
• Notification of acceptance/rejection of papers – 18 March 2021
• Final submission – 15 April 2021

For any further information, please visit the conference website www.med2021.poliba.it , or contact us by email at med2021@poliba.it

Yours sincerely,

Prof. Mariagrazia Dotoli, General Chair of MED2021

Prof. Laura Giarré, General Co-Chair of MED2021

Prof. Elisa Franco and Prof. Laura Giarré, Program Chairs of the MED2021

Prof. Alessandra Parisio and Prof. Laura Menini, Publication and Publicity Chairs of the MED2021

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Prof. Ing. Mariagrazia Dotoli, Ph.D.

Full Professor in Automation

Coordinator of the PhD Program in Industry 4.0

DEI – Politecnico di Bari 200 Via Re David 70125 Bari – Italy

Voice +39 080 596 3667 (office),  +39 080 596 3843 (D&C Lab) Fax   +39 080 596 3410

Email mariagrazia.dotoli@poliba.it, Skype mariagrazia.dotoli

Personal web site http://dclab.poliba.it/people/mariagrazia-dotoli/

D&C Lab web http://dclab.poliba.it/

Scopus Researcher ID http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=6603204493 

Industry 4.0 PhD Program web page http://www.poliba.it/it/didattica/dottorati-di-ricerca/industria-40

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General chair, MED2021 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation,

Puglia, Italy, June 22-25, 2021, http://med2021.poliba.it/

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