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IEEE Computer Society - Test Technology Technical Council
Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania, Department of Automation
The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, AQTR 2022 (THETA 23), which will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on May 19-21, 2022. The conference follows the tradition of the 22 automation and testing-related scientific events, organized in Cluj-Napoca since 1981 under the name THETA/AQTR.
AQTR 2022 is an international forum for researchers in the field of automation, quality, testing and robotics. It will bring together researchers, equipment manufacturers, software developers and end-users to discuss the current trends and future directions of control and testing technologies and their industrial and social applications in the private and the public sectors. Active participation of students and graduate students is strongly encouraged.
Accepted full papers (oral presentation) will be included in IEEE Xplore and submitted for Clarivate (former ISI) indexing (all editions since 2006 are indexed in ISI Web of Science). Additionally, the authors of the best papers will be invited to contribute their research to special issues of MDPI Sensors and MDPI Mathematics.
AQTR will be held in Cluj-Napoca, the main city in Transylvania. With its rich historical and cultural heritage, Cluj-Napoca is an intellectual centre with an active society, renowned universities, museums, theatres and eye-catching architecture.
Cluj is an important academic, industrial and commercial center. It is a dynamic multicultural and diverse city with a population of around 350000 inhabitants and 120000 students. The city was the 2015 European Youth Capital.
The conference will be held onsite and online, hosted on Microsoft Teams, enabled by the co-organizer Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
The links to the online meetings are here (also in the "Program at a glance" PDF).
We recommend installing the Microsoft Teams application. There are free install kits available for Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android.
If you do not want to install, you can access Teams directly from a web browser (Edge and Chrome tested, but Firefox and Safari are not fully supported).
Please make sure that your laptop/computer/tablet/phone/microwave you will be using, has a reliable Internet connection (preferably cable, instead of wireless) and a functioning microphone.
Event | | | Deadline |
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Special session proposals | | | January 10, 2022 |
Paper submission | | | February 11 February 1, 2022 (no further extension will be granted) |
Notification of acceptance | | | April 4, 2022 |
Camera-ready papers | | | April 18, 2022 |
Advance registration | | | April 22, 2022 April 29, 2022 |
Late registration | | | May 6, 2022 |
Student forum submission | | | TBA |
Student forum notification of acceptance | | | TBA |
Student forum camera-ready papers | | | TBA |
Each paper must have a full registration for presentation of the paper at the conference and for inclusion of the same in the proceedings (maximum 1 paper/registered author/fee). A Student registration only, is not sufficient for inclusion in the program and proceedings.
Advance registration is until the 22nd 29th of April, 2022.
Registrations are open until the 6th of May, 2022. Registrations and payments will not be processed after this day.
Onsite participation includes coffee breaks, two lunches, one banquet. The main fee does not include onsite participation, only online.
Fee type | Currency | ||
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USD | EUR | RON | |
IEEE Member | |||
Advance registration | 170 | 150 | 765 |
Late registration | 205 | 180 | 925 |
IEEE Non-member | |||
Advance registration | 205 | 180 | 925 |
Late registration | 250 | 220 | 1125 |
IEEE Student member | |||
Advance registration | 95 | 85 | 430 |
Late registration | 115 | 100 | 520 |
IEEE Student Non-member | |||
Advance registration | 115 | 100 | 520 |
Late registration | 140 | 124 | 630 |
IEEE Life & Retired member | |||
Advance registration | 95 | 85 | 430 |
Late registration | 115 | 100 | 520 |
Additional | |||
Onsite participation | 115 | 100 | 520 |
Bank info, steps, registration form.
Accepted papers (except Emerging Topic/Case Study papers and Student Forum papers) will be included in IEEE Xplore and submitted for ISI indexing (all editions since 2006 are indexed in ISI Web of Science), after they are presented.
IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, also from IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference.
Papers accepted for Emerging Topic/Case Study or Student Forum will not be included in the IEEE AQTR Proceedings and will not be indexed in IEEE Xplore/WoS, but they will be included in a separate AQTR volume, with its own ISBN code.
Liviu Miclea
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Yervant Zorian
Synopsys, USA
Mihail Abrudean
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Honoriu Vălean
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Paula Raica
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Zsófia Lendek
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mihail Abrudean
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Teodora Sanislav
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dan Goța
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ovidiu Stan
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Cristina Mureșan
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Iulia Ştefan
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Szilárd Enyedi
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Camelia Avram
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Valentin Sita
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Camelia Avram
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Tiberiu Leția
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Szilárd Enyedi
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Honoriu Vălean
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Levente Tamás
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Radu Babiceanu
USA
Isabela Birs
Romania
Roxana Both-Rusu
Romania
Adrian Burlacu
Romania
Lucian Busoniu
Romania
Alexandru Codrean
Romania
Adrian Colesa
Romania
Cristinel Costea
Romania
Mircea Cristea
Romania
Mihaela Dinsoreanu
Romania
Virgil Dobrota
Romania
Jozsef Domokos
Romania
Monica Dragoicea
Romania
Eva Dulf
Romania
Ioana Fagarasan
Romania
Silviu Folea
Romania
Eugen Gergely
Romania
Bogdan Groza
Romania
Kevin Guelton
France
Wolfgang Halang
Germany
Sorin Herle
Romania
Mihai Hulea
Romania
Eugen Lupu
Romania
Cosmin Marcu
Romania
Oliviu Matei
Romania
George Mois
Romania
Ionut Muntean
Romania
Vlad Muresan
Romania
Pal-Stefan Murvay
Romania
Ioan Nascu
Romania
Anastasios Natsakis
Romania
Octavian Pastravanu
Romania
Carla Pinto
Portugal
Doina Pisla
Romania
Petrica Pop Sitar
Romania
Dan Popescu
Romania
Mihai Postolache
Romania
Romain Postoyan
France
Radu-Emil Precup
Romania
Gheorghe Sebestyen
Romania
Dan Selisteanu
Romania
Martin Stava
Czech Republic
Octavian Stefan
Romania
Alin Suciu
Romania
Levente Tamas
Romania
Calin Vaida
Romania
Cristian Vasar
Romania
Due to its location (equal distance between two East-European capitals, Bucharest and Budapest) and its economic situation, Cluj-Napoca is easy to reach by different means of transport:
Cluj-Napoca International Airport, located at 8 km from the city center, offers direct, regular flights to many domestic and international destinations and returns.
Cluj-Napoca International Airport is linked with the city center:
Other options for those who do not have direct flights to/from Cluj-Napoca International Airport are offered by the Bucharest and Budapest international airports, the links between these European capitals and Cluj-Napoca being made by plane, by train, by car or by bus.
Cluj-Napoca railway station, located close to the city center, offers direct train connections with several European capitals. CFR webpage.
Cluj-Napoca is linked with the capital Bucharest through the following main routes:
Cluj-Napoca is linked with Budapest through highway M3 and European routes E79 and E60 (483 km).
Cluj-Napoca "BETA" long distance bus station, located near the railway station, offers direct bus connections with Bucharest and Budapest.
BlaBlaCar and other long distance ride sharing services are also available.
We do not have exclusive hotel offers for this edition, but there are plenty of accomodation possibilities around the conference sites. Please note that we did not verify these places.
Control systems
Modeling and simulation; fault-detection and isolation; fault models; control methods; realtime systems; decision support systems; distributed systems; intelligent systems; automotive systems.
Quality and Testing
IoT and CPS dependability; automatic test generation; design for testability; built-in selftest/repair; reliability; software QA; system testing; machine learning and test; quality of experiments; field trials and deployment; advanced metering infrastructure; wide-area monitoring; test, reliability and security of emerging technologies.
Robot control
Mobile robots; cooperative robots; parallel structures; machine vision; sensor fusion.
Applications
Cyber-physical systems; industry 4.0 applications; software applications; network sensors; image processing; eHealth; eLearning; eCitizen and Smart City.
Special sessions
Special session proposals are welcome and can be submitted to the Special Session Chair via email: Cristina.Muresan@aut.utcluj.ro.
Special sessions consist of at least 5 or more papers presenting a unified topic, should have at most 3 co-organizers, preferably from different organisations. Each (co-)organizer may be the (co-)author of at most one paper in their special session.
Proposals for special sessions must detail the motivation and relevance of the session and should include a list of 6 potential contributions, including manuscript title and prospective authors. All papers submitted to a special session will undergo the peer review process as other manuscripts.
In the event that the special session does not collect at least 5 papers, the accepted papers will be considered as regular papers.
Current Special sessions:
Transdisciplinary approaches in emerging engineering problems
Organized by Prof. Habil. Levente Kovacs, Prof. Habil. Eva Dulf, Dr. Ioana Nascu.
Mechatronics and Industry 4.0
Organized by Sergiu Dan Stan, Milos Simonovic, Milos Manic.
Mathematical and computational modelling: applications
Organized by Carla M.A. Pinto, Ioan-Lucian Popa, Dumitru Baleanu.
New trends and challenges in modeling and control for Industry 5.0
Organized by Dr. Isabela Birs, Dr. Dana Copot, Dr. Konrad Markowski.
Student forum
Student presentations in the conference topics. This session is addressed to the undergraduate and master students.
You will find guidelines for authors, below. Papers have to be submitted through the paper submission site.
The accepted papers in this session will be published in a separate electronic volume with ISBN.
Registration for Student Forum section is free of charge. For any other information, please don't hesitate to contact the Student Forum Chair.
The Student Forum program is here.
Please follow the guidelines for Camera-ready paper submission.
1. Regular and special sessions papers accepted for oral presentation will be included in IEEE Xplore and submitted for ISI indexing (all editions since 2006 are indexed in ISI Web of Science).
2. The authors of the best papers will be invited to contribute their research to special issues of MDPI Sensors and MDPI Mathematics.
3. Regular and special sessions papers accepted as Emerging Topic/Case Study papers will be included in a separate AQTR volume, with its own ISBN code. They will not be included in the IEEE AQTR Proceedings and will not be indexed in IEEE Xplore/WoS.
4. Accepted student forum papers will be included in a separate AQTR volume, with its own ISBN code. They will not be included in the IEEE AQTR Proceedings and will not be indexed in IEEE Xplore/WoS.
AQTR reserves the right to remove from any type of publication the papers that have not been presented at the conference.