
| Editor in Chief | |||
| Indian School of Business, Center for Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies | |||
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Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), India | ||
| +914023187104 | |||
| n.viswanadham@gmail.com | |||
| Primary areas: | Automation in Global Manufacturing and Service Networks; Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for design and evaluation of automation systems; Automation Technologies; Impact of Automation on Society. |

| University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering | |||
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Seattle (WA), United States | ||
| +1 206 543 3842 | http://www.ee.washington.edu/faculty/karl/ | ||
| Primary areas: | MEMS, microsystems, micro-assembly, self-assembly Secondary interests: Robotics, microfluidics |
| Secondary areas: | Robotics, microfluidics Robotics, microfluidics |

| University of California-Berkeley, IEOR and EECS and School of Information | |||
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Berkeley (CA), United States | ||
| +1 510 643 9565 | |||
| +1 510 642 1403 | http://goldberg.berkeley.edu | ||
| goldberg@ieor.berkeley.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Algorithmic Automation. Networked Robots and Cameras. Algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing, Grasping, and Assembly. |
| Secondary areas: | Collaborative Filtering. Automation for Public Safety and Security. |

| University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics | |||
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Philadelphia (PA), United States | ||
| +1 215 898 8241 | |||
| +1 215 573 6334 | http://www.seas.upenn.edu/%7Ekumar/ | ||
| kumar@cis.upenn.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Control/dynamics, and applications to manufacturing (especially assembly). |

| Indian Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation | |||
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Bangalore, India | ||
| +91 80 3092773 | |||
| +91 80 341683 | http://lcm.csa.iisc.ernet.in/hari/ | ||
| hari@csa.iisc.ernet.in | |||
| Primary areas: | Design of Smart Electronic Markets; Supply Chain Design and Optimization; and Modeling and Optimization of Factory and Enterprise Processes |

| MIT, ME | |||
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Cambridge (MA), United States | ||
| +1 617-253-1925 / | |||
| +1 617-253-7549 | http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=74 | ||
| sesarma@mit.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | RFID, sensors, sensor networks, smart grids, water systems, energy, vehicle sensors, traffic, sustainability |
| Secondary areas: | Computational geometry, Manufacturing, Virtual Reality |

| New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |||
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Newark (NJ), United States | ||
| +1 973 596 6282 | |||
| +1 973 596 5680 | http://www-ec.njit.edu/~zhou/ | ||
| zhou@njit.edu | |||

| University of Florida | |||
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United States | ||
| akcali@ise.ufl.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Manufacturing and service operations management; Combinatorial and heuristic optimization; Simulation modeling and analysis; Reverse logistics system design and operation; Semiconductor and automotive manufacturing; Health care services. |

| Tohoku University | |||
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Aoab-Ku (Sendai), Japan | ||
| +022 795 6965 | |||
| +022 795 6967 | http://www.imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/index_e.html | ||
| arai@imech.mech.tohoku.ac.jp | |||
| Primary areas: | Micro-Nano Robotics, Application of Micro-Nano Mechatronics to Biomedicine, Biochips and Micro-Nano Manipulation at Three-Dimensional Scales, Tailored Artificial Blood Vessels, Intelligent Robot Systems and Intellectual Interface, Sensors and Actuators using New Principles |

| Applied Business Computing & Design | |||
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Englewood Cliffs (NJ), United States | ||
| kbhaskaran@acm.org | |||
| Primary areas: | Business Transformation; Supply Chain Management; Business Process Modeling, Real-time Monitoring & Performance Management; Business Integration & Process Automation Technologies; Model-driven technologies for business-IT alignment |
| Secondary areas: | Software engineering, Logistics |

| Indian Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation | |||
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India | ||
| shalabh@csa.iisc.ernet.in | |||
| Primary areas: | Business Transformation; Supply Chain Management; Business Process Modeling, Real-time Monitoring & Performance Management; Business Integration & Process Automation Technologies; Model-driven technologies for business-IT alignment Secondary areas: Software engineering, Logistics |
| Secondary areas: | Queueing Networks, Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Semiconductor manufacturing systems. |

| University of Zagreb , LARICS - Laboratory for Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems | |||
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Zagreb, Croatia | ||
| +385 16129644 | |||
| +385 16129809 | http://flrcg.rasip.fer.hr/homepages/bogdan/bogdan_home_e.htm | ||
| stjepan.bogdan@fer.hr | |||
| Primary areas: | Robotics, flexible manufacturing systems, discrete event systems, Petri nets intelligent control systems, adaptive and time optimal control, control of electrical drives. |
| Secondary areas: | Formation control, unmanned aerial vehicles, swarms. |

| Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica | |||
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Italy | ||
| http://staff.polito.it/giuseppe.calafiore/ | |||
| giuseppe.calafiore@polito.it | |||
| Primary areas: | Randomized algorithms, Robust control, Convex optimization, LMIs |
| Secondary areas: | Pattern recognition, Robotics, Queuing systems, finance and economic systems |

| University of Canterbury, NZ | |||
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Christchurch, New Zealand | ||
| +64 3 364 2987 x 7221 | |||
| +64 3 364 2078 | |||
| xiaoqi.chen@canterbury.ac.nz | |||
| Primary areas: | Intelligent machines and systems |
| Secondary areas: | Bio-instrumentation and control |

| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TMSC), Industrial Engineering Division | |||
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Hong Kong (SAR China) | ||
| cfchiena@tsmc.com | |||
| Primary areas: | Development of better analytical methods (MCDM, OR, and Statistics) and solutions (in terms of IT) for high-tech companies confronted with decision problems involved in operations, technology, and manufacturing strategy that are characterized by uncertain (incomplete or massive) information and a need for tradeoff among various objectives and justification for the decision. |
| Secondary areas: | Data mining and empirical modeling for yield enhancement, fault detection and classification, and digital decision support. |

| Ecole Centrale Paris, Laboratoire Genie Industriel | |||
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France | ||
| chengbin.chu@ecp.fr | |||
| Primary areas: | Combinatorial optimization, supply chain and manufacturing systems modelling and optimization, production planning and scheduling |
| Secondary areas: | Performance evaluation, reliability and maintenance, optimal control |

| National Tsing Hua University, Industrial Engineering and Engineering MAnagement | |||
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Taiwan | ||
| chchu@ie.nthu.edu.tw | |||
| Primary areas: | Product development, collaborative design, design chain management, and CAD/CAM Product development, collaborative design, design chain management, and CAD/CAM |

| Schneider Electric GmbH | |||
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Seligenstadt (Hessen), Germany | ||
| +49 6182 812269 x 2269 | |||
| +49 6182 812157 | |||
| armando.colombo@de.schneider-electric.com | |||
| Primary areas: | Service-oriented architecture (SoA)-based collaborative automation, intelligent supervisory control, and formal specification of flexible production systems. |

| University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of Mechanical Engineering | |||
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United States | ||
| hdarabi@uic.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Supervisory control of discrete event systems, Petri nets, Control reconfiguration of discrete event systems |
| Secondary areas: | Healthcare system optimization, monitoring and control of mass casualty events after a disaster, planning and control of task-resource networks, manufacturing control |

| Michigan State University | |||
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East Lansing (MI), United States | ||
| (517) 353-3918 | |||
| ldong@msu.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | NanoRobotics, NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS) |
| Secondary areas: | Mechatronics, Nanoscale Automation Science and Engineering |

| Chalmers University of Technology , Department of Signals and Systems | |||
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Sweden | ||
| fabian@chalmers.se | |||
| Primary areas: | Synthesis and verification of discrete event systems control (mainly supervisory control theory approaches); Object oriented modeling and analysis |
| Secondary areas: | Scheduling and optimization of discrete event systems, mainly focusing on production system (manufacturing, as well as batch processing) |

| Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica | |||
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Bari, Italy | ||
| +39805460486 | |||
| +39805460410 | http://www-dee.poliba.it/dee-web/Personale/fanti.html | ||
| fanti@deemail.poliba.it | |||
| Primary areas: | Discrete event systems, Petri net and Colored Petri nets; Control and modeling of automated manufacturing systems; Control and modeling of computer integrated systems: Automatic guided vehicle systems, automated storage and retrieval systems, railway networks, urban traffic signals; Supply chain modeling and management. |
| Secondary areas: | Hybrid Systems; Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy Petri nets; Workflow nets; Structural properties of linear systems. |

| University of Oldenburg, Division of Micro-robotics and Control Engineering, Technology Cluster Automated Nanohandling | |||
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Oldenburg (Oldb.), Germany | ||
| +49 441 7983141 | http://www.amir.uni-oldenburg.de | ||
| fatikow@uni-oldenburg.de | |||
| Primary areas: | Nanohandling automation, robot-based nanohandling, AFM-based nanohandling |
| Secondary areas: | Micro- and Nanorobotics, Micro- and Nano-assembly |

| University of New Mexico , Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | |||
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Albuquerque (NM), United States | ||
| +1 505277 4125 | |||
| +1 505 277 1439 | |||
| rfierro@ieee.org | |||
| Primary areas: | Hybrid and embedded systems, Coordination of multi-agent systems, Optimization-based cooperative control, Mobile sensor networks and robotics |

| University of Technology - Sydney (Australia) | |||
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Australia | ||
| +61 2 9514 2655 | |||
| quangha@eng.uts.edu.au | |||
| Primary areas: | Control Systems, Construction Automation, Estimation & Modelling, Robotic Systems |
| Secondary areas: | Autonomous Vehicles, Cooperative Control, Monitoring, Mechatronic Systems. |

| Rutgers University, Dept of Industrial and &Systems Eng., Center for Operations Research | |||
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Piscataway (NJ), United States | ||
| mjeong@rci.rutgers | |||
| Primary areas: | Process monitoring, statistical process control, fault detection, data mining, and machine learning |
| Secondary areas: | Intelligent transportation systems, wavelets, and applied statistics |

| Iowa State University | |||
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Ames (IA), United States | ||
| +1 515 294 2577 | |||
| +1 515 294 0258 | |||
| jia@cs.iastate.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Robotics and artificial intelligence, tactile shape recognition and reconstruction, computation for curves and surfaces, localization and robot sensing, geometric modeling, sensor implementation, planning and control for robot dexterity, hacking robot interfaces, optimization, nonlinear control and observation, kinematics and dynamics of manipulation. |

| Intel Corporation | |||
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United States | ||
| adar.kalir@intel.com | |||
| Primary areas: | Production management and control, capacity planning, design and control of advanced manufacturing systems, and in the applications of sequencing and scheduling theory. Second Areas: Optimization, Cycle Time Management, Inspection and Quality Control |

| Oklahoma State University | |||
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United States | ||
| mkamath@okstate.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Enterprise Modeling, Stochastic Modeling and Queuing Approximations, Performance Modeling of Manufacturing and Service Systems, and Discrete Event Simulation. |
| Secondary areas: | Petri nets, Business Process Automation, and Supply Chain Modeling |

| University of Southern California, Department of EE0Electrophysics | |||
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United States | ||
| eskim@usc.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), acoustic and piezoelectric transducers, microfluidic systems, etc. |

| National University of Singapore , Department of Civil Engineering | |||
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Singapore | ||
| dhl@nus.edu.sg | |||
| Primary areas: | Traffic simulation, Transportation network, Intelligent transportation systems, Multi-modal transportation logistics |
| Secondary areas: | Airport and aviation management, Maritime and port Management |

| UNiversity of Macau | |||
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Taipa, Macao (SAR China) | ||
| +853 3974464 | |||
| +853 838314 | |||
| ymli@umac.mo | |||

| Xidian University | |||
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Xi An (Shaanxi), China | ||
| zhwli@xidian.edu.cn | |||
| Primary areas: | Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems, Petri Net Theory and Application, Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Flexible Automation |

| Carleton University, Systems and Computer Engineering | |||
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Ottawa (ON), Canada | ||
| xpliu@sce.carleton.ca | |||
| Primary areas: | Internet Enabled Automation; Teleoperation, Haptics, Self-aware Systems and Automation, Micro- and Nano-manipulation |
| Secondary areas: | Automated Guided Vehicle Systems; Intelligent Systems, Mechatronics Automated Guided Vehicle Systems; Intelligent Systems, Mechatronics |

| Nanyang Technological University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |||
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Singapore | ||
| http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mkhlow/ | |||
| MKHLow@ntu.edu.sg | |||
| Primary areas: | :Rehabilitation Device/System in Bio-Engineering and Assistive Technologies; Biomimetics Modelling, Design and Systems; UAV Design and Technologies; Drop-impact Analysis and Absorption; Robotics, Mechatronics, and Automation Systems. |

| University of Franche Comte, Automatic Control and Micro-Mechatronic Systems Department | |||
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France | ||
| philippe.lutz@femto-st.fr | |||
| Primary areas: | Microrobotics, microassembly, micromanipulation, control of microsystems and materials, control of microrobots and microactuators |
| Secondary areas: | Assembly, gripping, automation methods |

| University of Alberta | |||
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Canada | ||
| yongsheng.ma@ualberta.ca | |||
| Primary areas: | Engineering IT Automation; Engineering Management; CADCAM; Interoperability; Feature-based engineering |
| Secondary areas: | Design Automation; System Integration; Product and Process Modeling |

| Fern Universitaet in Hagen, Enterprise-wide Software Systems | |||
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Germany | ||
| Lars.Moench@FernUni-Hagen.de | |||
| Primary areas: | Production planning and scheduling, multi-agent-systems, forecasting, discrete-event simulation, artificial intelligence applications in manufacturing, and semiconductor manufacturing applications. |
| Secondary areas: | machine learning, software development |

| Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering | |||
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Evanston (IL), United States | ||
| +1 303 492 1090 | |||
| http://robotics.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/Murphey | |||
| t-murphey@northwestern.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Control Theory, Modeling, Robotics, Hybrid Systems |
| Secondary areas: | Algorithmic Automation, Numerical Simulation |

| University of Texas - Arlington, Department of Electrical Engineering | |||
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Roanoke (TX), United States | ||
| +1 817 272 5982 | |||
| +1 817 272 5952 | |||
| popa@arri.uta.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Micro Robotics, Multi-scale Robotics, MEMS, Robotics & Control Systems (Path planning, motion control, sensor networks, human-robot interaction, force control). |

| Hong Kong Univesity of Science and Technology | |||
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Kowloon, Hong Kong (SAR China) | ||
| iimqi@ust.hk | |||
| Primary areas: | planning and scheduling, inventory control, transportation and logistics |
| Secondary areas: | Supply chain management, manpower planning, optimization algorithm design |

| Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation | |||
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China | ||
| hong.qiao@ia.ac.cn | |||
| Primary areas: | Intelligent Robotics, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. |
| Secondary areas: | Robotic Vision |

| Kinston University-London | |||
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Kingston (Surrey), United Kingdom | ||
| +01483 505317 | |||
| p.remagnino@kingston.ac.uk | |||
| Primary areas: | Machine Learning, Ambient Intelligence, Behaviour Analysis, Camera Calibration, Cognitive Architectures, Multi-Agent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics. |

| Honeywell, Enraf BV | |||
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Delft, Netherlands | ||
| +31 15 2701178 | |||
| +31 15 2701197 | |||
| b.sai@ieee.org | |||
| Primary areas: | Sensor System Definition, Design and Integration; Advanced Signal Processing; Radar Technology and Electromagnetic Fields; Modeling of Microwave/Millimeter Wave Scattering; Automated Target Classification and Identification; Subsurface Detection and High-Resolution Imaging. |

| Indian Institute of Science, Department of Electrical Engineering | |||
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India | ||
| Sastry@ee.iisc.ernet.in | |||
| Primary areas: | Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Computer Vision, and Computational Neuralscience |
| Secondary areas: | Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Computational Neuralscience |

| Nanyang Technological University, School of Computer Engineering | |||
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Singapore, Singapore | ||
| + 65 67904288 | |||
| asktseow@ntu.edu.sg | |||
| Primary areas: | Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, supervisory control of discrete-event systems and temporal logic, with emphasis on their mutual connections and applications in automation |
| Secondary areas: | Logical and real-time discrete-event modeling and control of supply chains, agent-based modeling, control and coordination of service transportation systems |

| Oklahoma State University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |||
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Stillwater (OK), United States | ||
| +1 405 7447590 | |||
| +1 405 7449198 | |||
| weihua.sheng@okstate.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Intelligent mobile robots, Automated planning for manufacturing, Service robots, Wearable computing |
| Secondary areas: | Human robot interaction, Embedded computing, Machine Learning, Multi-robot control |

| MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA, School of Engineering | |||
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Bandar Sunway (Selangor), Malaysia | ||
| +60-3-5514 6203 | |||
| +60-3-5514 6207 | http://www.monash.edu.my | ||
| sgponnambalam@eng.monash.edu.my | |||
| Primary areas: | Simulation and Scheduling of manufacturing systems, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Meta-heuristics, Facility Location Models, swarm intelligence. |
| Secondary areas: | OR applications in Manufacturing, Mobile Robots |

| Lehigh University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering | |||
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Center Valley (PA), United States | ||
| spletzer@cse.lehigh.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Service robotics, perception systems, cooperative robotics, localization and mapping |
| Secondary areas: | Computer vision, convex optimization |

| University of Toronto | |||
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Toronto (ON), Canada | ||
| +1 001 416 946 0549 | |||
| sun@mie.utoronto.ca | |||
| Primary areas: | Large-scale optimization and simulation with applications in planning and scheduling systems and supply chain management |
| Secondary areas: | Discrete Event systems, optimization in healthcare systems |

| Rowan University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |||
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Glassboro (NJ), United States | ||
| +1 856-256-5339 | |||
| tang@rowan.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Modeling, scheduling and optimization of discrete event systems; Petri Net applications; Modeling and control of computer-integrated systems; Multi-lifecycle Engineering (mainly disassembly modeling and planning) |
| Secondary areas: | Supply Chain management; Optimization in Healthcare Management; Machine learning |

| University of Delaware | |||
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Newark (DE), United States | ||
| +1 302 831 6888 | |||
| btanner@udel.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Interconnected multi-agent systems: planning, stability and control; Mobile Sensor Networks: coordination, motion and topology control; Hybrid Systems: automatic planning of cooperative behavior in heterogeneous agent groups through abstraction and formal methods; Robotics: mobile manipulator motion planning and control, position/force control; Nonlinear Control: underactuated and nonholonomic systems, discontinuous and switching feedback control. |

| University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering | |||
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Ann Arbor (MI), United States | ||
| tilbury@umich.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Logic control for manufacturing systems and networked control systems |

| Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering | |||
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Italy | ||
| turchiano@deemail.poliba.it | |||
| Primary areas: | Modeling, analysis, and synthesis of concurrent systems; Formal modeling and analysis techniques for distributed systems and distributed software; and Web services and web processes. |

| Guandong University of Technology, Dept. of Industrial Engineering | |||
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Guangzhou (Guangdong), China | ||
| +86 20 39322415 | |||
| nqwu@gdut.edu.cn | |||
| Primary areas: | Production planning and scheduling, Manufacturing automation, Discrete event systems, Petri net, Manufacturing system |
| Secondary areas: | Transportation, Information assurance |

| University of North Carolina - Charlotte | |||
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Charlotte (NC), United States | ||
| +1 704 687 8587 | |||
| +1 704 687 3516 | http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~xiao | ||
| xiao@uncc.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Robotics, geometric reasoning and computation, haptics, evolutionary computation, planning and optimization, AI, computer vision, multimedia databases |

| Tsinghua University, Department of Automation | |||
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Beijing, China | ||
| +86 10 62786911 | |||
| zhaoqc@tsinghua.edu.cn | |||
| Primary areas: | Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: theory and applications; Optimization of Complex Systems |
| Secondary areas: | Wireless sensor networks and applications |

| University of Wisconsin | |||
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United States | ||
| szhou@engr.wisc.edu | |||
| Primary areas: | Quality control |
| Secondary areas: | Data mining, machine learning |