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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; color:white">GS International Conference on Computer Science 2014</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt; line-height:115%; color:#1F497D">Wireless Networks in Control Systems</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b>Special Session Organizer</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b>Luisella Balbis (PhD)</b></p>
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College of Information Technology<br>
University of Bahrain<br>
Kingdom of Bahrain<br>
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email: </span><a href="mailto:lbalbis@uob.edu.bh"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">lbalbis@uob.edu.bh</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; line-height:115%"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; line-height:115%">In the past forty years, communication networks have been widely used in distributed control systems. More recently, wireless networks started to be introduced in industrial automation and process
control. There are several advantages as well as limitations in using wireless networking in industrial control applications. The main benefits are associated with cost and flexibility in general, whereas the main concerns are security and reliability, followed
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; line-height:115%">This special session is a multi-disciplinary session which involves the fields of communication and industrial control.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; line-height:115%">The aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the state-of-the art in the use of wireless network in industrial control systems.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; line-height:115%">Papers should focus on the latest research developments to overcame the strict real-time and reliability requirements imposed by industrial control systems as well as the successful real-world
deployment of wireless control in industries. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; line-height:115%">Submission of manuscript for this special session implies that the manuscript has not been published previously, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. In brief, manuscripts
should be written in English, prepared in pdf format, font type: Times New Roman size 10, single-spaced and two-column format. All the papers should ideally not exceed 15,000 words (15 pages) in length. Submissions must include the following elements: title,
authors, affiliations, contacts, abstract, index terms, introduction, main text, conclusions, appendixes, acknowledgement, references, and biographies. The rest of the instructions including template can be found in the
<a href="http://www.gspublishers.com/instructionsforauthors.html">Instructions for Authors</a> page.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">Papers are submitted as PDF files via the
<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wncs2014"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wncs2014</span></a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">All papers will undergo the same review process (two completed reviews per paper). Accepted special session papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Information about registration can be found
<a href="http://www.gspublishers.com/conferences/gsMICST14/registration.html">here</a>.<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">Paper Submission Deadline:<b>
</b>30 Apr 2014<b></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; line-height:115%">Author Notification:<b>
</b>25 May 2014 </p>
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</b>30 Jun 2014 </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; line-height:115%">Conference Dates:<b>
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