Committees
Honorary Co-Chairs
Enric Fossas
President of the Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
Fernando Aldana
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
General Co-Chairs
Antoni Grau
Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
Richard Zurawski
ISA Group, San Francisco, USA
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Herminio Martínez, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
Thilo Sauter, Danube University Krems, Austria
Work-in-Progress Co-Chairs
Yolanda Bolea, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
Ramon Vilanova, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Special Sessions Co-Chairs
Alberto Ortiz, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
John Gialelis, University of Patras, Greece
Finance Co-Chairs
Manuel Manzanares, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
Thomas Nolte, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Publications Chair
Juan Gamiz, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
ETFA Series Steering Committee
Eric Dekenuvel, University of Nice, France
Alexandre Fay, Helmut-Schmidt University, Germany
Josep M. Fuertes, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
Hiroyuki Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Luis Gomes, UNINOVA, Portugal
Antoni Grau, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Spain
Funio Harashima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Chang-Jin Kim, UCLA, USA
Stavros Koubias, University of Patras, Greece
Kim Lee, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Marga Marcos, University of Basque Country, Spain
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Orazio Mirabella, University of Catania, Italy
Marek Miskowicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Carla Seatzu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Jean-Marie Proth, INRIA Lorraine, France
Alfred Weaver, University of Virginia, USA
Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA (Chair)
Industry Advisory Committee
Rainer Drath, Senior Principal Scientist, ABB, Germany
Raymond Liao, Sr Director, Open Innovation, Samsung Electronics, USA
Ralf Neubert, Director R&D Efficiency & System Interoperability, Schneider Electric, Germany
Patxi Samaniego, Director of Innovation, Etxe-tar Group, Basque Country, Spain
Stefan Svensson, World-Wide Manager for the Industrial Communication Program, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Track 1 Program Committee
Esteban Arroyo, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany
Mike Barth, Hochschule Pforzheim, Germany
Salvatore Cavalieri, University of Catania, Italy
Rainer Drath, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
Dacfey Dzung, ABB Switzerland Corporate Research, Switzerland
Ulrich Epple, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Elisabet Estévez, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Cesare Fantuzzi, DISMI, Italy
Alexander Fay, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany (Co-Chair)
Luca Ferrarini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Georg Frey, Saarland University, Germany (Co-Chair)
Frank Golatowski, University Rostock, Germany
Tobias Jäger, Siemens AG, Germany
Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela, Aalto University, Finland
Klaus Kabitzsch, TU Dresden, Germany
Wolfgang Kastner, TU Wien, Austria
Seppo Kuikka, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Marga Marcos, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Oliver Niggemann, University of Applied Science Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany
Dominic O’Sullivan, University College Cork, United Kingdom
Ileana Ober, IRIT - Université deToulouse, France
Marc Pantel, IRIT/INPT - Université de Toulouse, France
Federico Pérez, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Stefan Runde, Siemens AG, Germany
Silvia Satorres, Jaén University, Spain
Seppo Sierla, Aalto University, Finland
Mário Sousa, Porto University, Portugal
Kleanthis Thramboulidis, University of Patras, Greece
Leon Urbas, TU Dresden, Germany
Holger Voos, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Michael Weyrich, University Stuttgart, Germany
Martin Wollschlaeger, TU Dresden, Germany
Track 2 Program Committee
Luís Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal
Manuel Barranco, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, CNR-IEIIT, Italy
Ramez Daoud, SEAD Group, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Max Felser, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Paolo Ferrari, University of Brescia, Italy
José Alberto Fonseca, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal
Christian Fraboul, Université de Toulouse INP-IRIT, France
Wolfgang Granzer, NETxAutomation, Wels, Austria
Affonso Guedes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Athanasios Kalogeras, Industrial Systems Institute, Patras, Greece
Wolfgang Kastner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dong-Seong Kim, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
Marga Marcos, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Uwe Meier, inIT – Institute Industrial IT, Germany
Marek Natkaniec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Nicolas Navet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Roman Obermaisser, Siegen University, Germany
Paulo Pedreiras, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal
Paulo Portugal, University of Porto, Portugal
Sasikumar Punnekkat, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Victor Sempere, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
Michael Short, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
Mikael Sjödin, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Ye-Qiong Song, LORIA - Université de Lorraine, France
Federico Tramarin
Albert Treytl, Danube University Krems, Austria
Henning Trsek, inIT - Institute Industrial IT, Germany
Elisabeth Uhlemann, Malardalen University, Sweden
Francisco Vasques, University of Porto, Portugal,
Stefano Vitturi, CNR-IEIIT - Univ. of Padova, Italy
Andreas Willig, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand
Martin Wollschlaeger, Industrial Communications, TU Dresden, Germany
Haibo Zeng, McGill University, Canada,
Claudio Zunino, CNR-IEIIT, Italy
Track 3 Program Committee
Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal
Björn Andersson, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Giovanni Ansaloni, EPFL, Switzerland
Moris Behnam, MRTC/Mälardalen University, Sweden
Marko Bertogna, University of Modena, Italy
Enrico Bini, Lund University, Sweden
Björn B. Brandenburg, MPI, Germany
Reinder J. Bril, TU/e, The Netherlands
Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, Italy
Giorgio Buttazzo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, Italy
Tommaso Cucinotta, Bell Labs, Ireland
Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
Marco Di Natale, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Rolf Ernst, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Tullio Facchinetti, University of Pavia, Italy
Sebastian N. Fischmeister, University of Waterloo, Canada
Nathan Fisher, Wayne State University, USA
Marisol Garcia Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Teresa Higuera, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Pi-Cheng Hsiu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea
Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
Alexander Metzner, Regensburg University of Applied Science, Germany
Francisco Moya, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Nicolas Navet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Moritz Neukirchner, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Roman Obermaisser, University of Siegen, Austria
Luigi Palopoli, University of Trento, Italy
Claudio Passerone, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Roberto Passerone, University of Trento, Italy
Paulo Pedreiras, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Pascal Richard, University of Poitiers/ENSMA, France
Kristian Sandström, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Insik Shin, KAIST, Korea
Francisco Vasques, University of Porto, Portugal
Track 4 Program Committee
Francesco Basile, University of Salerno, Italy
Jean-Louis Boimond, ISTIA-LISA, France
Maria Paola Cabasino, University of Cagliari, Italy
José Manuel Colom, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Isabel Demongodin, LSIS, Marseille, France
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Poliytechnic of Bari, Italy
Martin Fabian, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Maria Pia Fanti, Poliytechnic of Bari, Italy
Jean-Marc Faure, LURPA, Cachan, France
Bernard Grabot, LGP-ENIT, France
Stefan Haar, LSV, CNRS and ENS, Cachan, France
Christoforos Hadjicostis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Jorge Julvez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Marius Kloetzer, Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Dimitri Lefebvre, University Le Havre, France
Jean-Jacques Lesage, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
Carlos López-Limón, CINVESTAV-IPN, Guadalajara, Mexico
Ernesto Lopez-Mellado, CINVESTAV, Guadalajara, Mexico
Zhiwu Li, Xidian University, China
Tomas Masopust, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Octavian Pastravanu, Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Joerg Raisch, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Riccardo Rasconi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy
Yu Ru, GE Global Research, Shanghai, China
Arthur Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Shigemasa Takai, Osaka University, Japan
Marcelo Teixeira, Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil
Walter Ukovich, University of Trieste, Italy
Armin Zimmermann, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany
Track 5 Program Committee
Akira Yanou, Okayama University, Japan
Andrzej Dębowski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Antonio Visioli, Univeristy of Brescia, Italy
Carla Seatzu, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Carles Pedret, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Armando W. Colombo, Schneider Electric, Germany
Christian Diedrich, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Daniel Simon, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Edgar Nett, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Fotis Koulumbis, Halkis Institute of Technoloty, Greece
Francisco Vázquez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain
Gregorio I. Sainz, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Hector Benitez, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Juan Jose Gude, Univeridad de Deusto, Spain
Luís Gomes, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal
Mireille Bayart, Université de Lille1, France
Reza Katebi, University of StrathClyde, UK
Tobias Jäger, Siemens AG, Germany
Track 6 Program Committee
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Heimo Zeilinger, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Hirosato Seki, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Sergiu-Dan Stan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Rafal Scherer, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Juan Carlos Pérez Cortés, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Argyris Dentsoras, University of Patras, Greece
Federico Barber, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Jacek Kabzinski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Victor M. Becerra, University of Reading, England
Zbigniew Banaszak, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Yun-Kung Chung, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland
Antonio Sala, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Ireneusz Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Mauro Onori, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Wlodzimierz Kasprzak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Beatriz López, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Grzegorz Bocewicz, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Feng Gang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Marek Kretowski, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Zdzislaw Kowalczuk, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Milos Manic, University of Idaho, USA
Adam Slowik, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Track 7 Program Committee
Filippo Arrichiello, University of Cassino, Italy
Aman Behal, University of Central Florida, USA
Geoffrey Biggs, AIST, Japan
Davide Brugali, University of Bergamo, Italy
Francesco Ferro, PAL Robotics, Spain
Leonid Freidovich, Umeå University, Sweden
Alvaro Hernandez-Alonso, University of Alcala, Spain
Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Daniel Kubus, Technical University of Braumschweig, Germany
Giovanni Legnani, University of Brescia, Italy
Alex Lotz, Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Claudio Melchiorri, University of Bologna, Italy
René van de Molengraft, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Issa Nesnas, JPL Robotics, USA
Cyril Novales, L'Université d'Orléans, France
Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Dariusz Pazderski, University of Poznan, Poland
Cristina Vicente-Chicote, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Sam Wane, Harper Adams University, UK
Track 8 Program Committee
Andres Bustillo, Univ of Burgos, Spain
Javier Calpe-Maravilla, Analog Devices, Spain
Andreu Corominas, IRI, UPC-CSIC, Spain
Maritza Correa Valencia, Univ. Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia
José Luis Cortina, UPC, Spain
Daniel G. Costa, UEFS, Brazil
Emma Delgado, University of Vigo, Spain
Miguel Díaz-Cacho, University of Vigo, Spain
Christian W. Frey, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
Spartacus Gomariz, UPC, Spain
Antoni Grau, UPC, Spain
Luiz Affonso Guedes, DCA-UFRN, Brazil
Stefano Mariani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Herminio Martinez, UPC, Spain
Jordi Palacín, Univ of Lleida, Spain
Paulo Portugal, University of Porto, Portugal
Alireza Saberkari, University of Guilan, Iran
Diego E. Serrano, Qualtré Inc., USA
Ivanovitch Silva, UFRN, Brazil
Marcel Tresanchez, Univ of Lleida, Spain
Teresa A. Vidal-Calleja, Univ. of Tech Sydney, Australia
Local Committee
Yolanda Bolea
Joan Domingo
Jose Luis Duran
Jesus Galceran
Javier Gamiz
Antoni Grau, chair
Edmundo Guerra
Andreu Playà