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CFP: 2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS , October 6-9, 2002, Hammamet - Tunisia: "Bridging the Digital Divide for Cyber-development, Human Progress, Understanding and Prosperity"

2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
        SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS
    October 6-9, 2002, Hammamet - Tunisia "Bridging the Digital Divide
for Cyber-development,
   Human Progress, Understanding and Prosperity"


The second IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
of the twenty-first century will be held 
under special circumstances in the hospitable country Tunisia. It will
be held two years after the Okinawa-Kyushu G8 
Summit in Japan in which the digital divide between developed countries
and developing countries was considered to be 
a major challenge for the World Community. It will be also held three
years before the second part of the United 
Nations sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, which will
take place in Tunisia in 2005. Tunisia proposed 
the idea of the Summit in 1998 at the International Telecommunication
Union annual meeting in Minneapolis, USA. The 
first part will be held in Switzerland in 2003. Location
The venue for the SMC'02 Conference will be Hammamet, Tunisia. Hammamet,
formerly a fisherman's town surrounded by 
orange groves and an ancient rampart overlooking the sea, has become
today a world-famous Mediterranean resort city. 
The conference will be held October 6-9, 2002 in Yasmine Hammamet, a new
tourism development, six minutes only from 
Hammamet and one hour from Tunis-Carthage and Monastir airports. Theme
The Conference aims to provide a forum for presentation and
discussion of the state of the art in Systems Engineering,
involving issue formulation and interpretation in all of the
life cycle phases associated with the definition, development
and implementation of large, complex systems; Human Systems and
human organisational interactions, including cognitive ergonomics,
system test and evaluation, human information processing concerns
in systems and organizations; Cybernetics, including communication
and control across humans, machines and organisations. Presentations
including, but not limited to the following are encouraged from both
industry and academia:
Systems Modeling and Control   Manufacturing Systems
Decision Support Systems/Informatics  Intelligent Transportation Systems
Information Systems/Technology Management Telecommunication Systems
Quality/Reliability and Systems Engineering Internet/Electronic
Commerce/EDI
Human and Machine Systems   Energy and Environment Systems
Computational Cybernetics   Medical and Health Care Systems
In addition, the conference offers the opportunity for advanced
technology
transfer and contributes in "bridging the digital divide for
cyber-development, human progress, peace and prosperity". Important
Dates
March 1, 2002:  Deadline for submission of extended abstracts or draft
papers / invited sessions.
May 1, 2002:  Acceptance / Rejection notification.
June 15, 2002:  Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form &
author pre-registration.Call for Contributed Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers electronically
through the conference web site. Papers will be 
reviewed by up to three referees for technical merit and content.
Accepted paper(s) must be presented at the 
conference by one of the authors to appear in the proceedings. Call for
Invited Sessions and Tracks
The goal of invited sessions (5 papers) and invited tracks (at least two
sessions) is to provide focused discussions 
on new topics or innovative applications. Each prospective session/track
organizer must submit a proposal, including 
the title of the session and a list of authors with extended abstracts.
Industry-Focused Sessions
In addition to the traditional topic areas, the Technical Program
Committee is soliciting papers that focus on 
industrial issues. By bringing together researchers from industry and
academia, we hope to foster collaboration and 
promote transfer of ideas among these communities.
SMC'02 Secretariat in France
Ecole Centrale de Lille, BP 48,
F59651 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
Phone: +33 3 20 33 53 03
Fax: +33 3 20 33 54 99
E-mail: smc02@ec-lille.fr
Web: http://smc02.ec-lille.fr/