15, Sep, 2008 to 18, Sep, 2008
Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany
Homepage: http://www.etfa2008.org
Sponsors: IEEE-IES
Deadline: 31, Mar, 2008

The ETFA conference series is the prime, and largest, IEEE event dedicated to factory automation and emerging technologies in industrial automation.

Since 1992, the ETFA conferences have been hosted by some of the leading academic and research establishments including University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), INRIA (Paris, France), University of Hawaii (Hawaii), University of California at Los Angeles, Polytechnic University of Catalunia (Barcelona, Spain), University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (Nice, France) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa-FCT-DEE (Lisbon, Portugal), University of Catania (Italy), and in 2007 at the University of Patras (Greece).

In 2008, the ETFA conference will be hosted at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent advances and developments in the newly emerging areas of technology, as well as actual and potential applications to industrial and factory automation.

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