First Announcement and Call For Papers

Sponsor: The International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee on Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing Organizer: The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan

Objective
The IFAC Workshop on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Industries provides a forum where control, mining, mineral processing and metal processing professionals and researchers may meet to review stateof-the-art automation technologies in the eld. The objectives of the Workshop are: To promote the exchange of knowledge and experience. To promote development of an international interdisciplinary network. To discuss the long-term outlook for important future problems in the mining, mineral and metal industries such as: 1. Sustainable and environmentally safe productive activities. 2. Energy and water conservation and carbon dioxide emission reduction. 3. New material design and production innovation considering resource saving.

Paper submission
All papers should be submitted electronically through the Workshop web site. Industrial papers (Industrial application with at least one industrial author): An extended abstract (2 pages) must be submitted. Regular papers: A full paper (6 pages) must be submitted. To be included in the preprints, nal papers in camera-ready form, for both industrial and regular papers are limited to 6 pages and have to fully comply with IFAC guidelines for authors published in http://www.ifac-control.org/events/information-for-ifacauthors.

Deadlines
Paper Submission Notication of Acceptance Submission of Camera-ready Papers Early Registration February 29, 2012 April 16, 2012 May 16, 2012 June 18, 2012

Areas of Interest
The workshop will include developments and innovations in automation related to the mining, mineral and metal industry. This will include among other: - Measurement and instrumentation - Process modeling, control and optimization - Advanced process control - Data mining and multivariate statistical analysis - Fault diagnosis and process monitoring - Articial intelligence and machine learning systems - Robotics, mechatronics and teleoperation - Production and distribution planning Applications - Mine unit operations - Mineral processing - Pyrometallurgy - Blast furnaces and smelters - Electrorening - Steel making and continuous casting - Hot/cold rolling - Environmental recycling - Liquid and solid waste treatment - Forming of metal and metallic materials - Hydrometallurgy

Venue
The workshop is held at Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu on September 10-12, 2012. Gifu located in the center of Japan can trace its history as a "free market society" back to the Shogunate Oda Nobunaga. Gifu's "free market" ourished in an unrestricted atmosphere where people, things and information came together. The Nagaragawa Convention Center was established as the free market of our times. The Nagaragawa Convention Center is located on the bank of beautiful Nagara River. A wide array of accommodations ranging from world class hotels and Japanese style inns to various hotels with hot springs are available for visitors. For further information about the venue, please visit the Workshp web site. First built as a fortress on the top of Mt. Kinka in 1201, Gifu Castle has a history of about 800 years. Oda Nobunaga, a famous Shogunate in Sengoku period, occupied the castle and became its master in 1567. - Excerpt from Web-site of Gifu Gifu Castle * Convention Bureau -

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International Programme Committee

Chair: Akira Kitamura (JP) Co-chair: Luis G. Bergh (CL) Vice chair: Harutoshi Ogai (JP) Kazuya Asano (JP) Member: Osvaldo A. Bascur (US) Francesco Cuzzola (IT) Andr Desbiens (CA) Adriano P. Ferreira (US) Chonghun Han (KR) Daniel Hodouin (CA) Hiroshi Kitada (JP) Eiji Konaka (JP)<Editor> Florian Kongoli (US) Imrich Kostial (SK) Bao Lin (US) Mahdi Mahfouf (UK) Yoshiharu Nishida (JP) Ju Hyun Park (KR) Harald Peters (DE) Jos Ragot (FR) Tetsuo Sawaragi (JP) Toshiharu Sugie (JP) Hisashi Tamaki (JP) Kazuro Tsuda (JP) Wei Wang (CN) Sangchul Won (KR) Yale Zhang (CA) Chris Aldrich (ZA)

Copyright Conditions
The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Proceedings of the IFAC Congress, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops will be hosted on-line on the IFAC-PapersonLine.net website. The Presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals (Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Journal of Process Control, Engineering Applications of Articial Intelligence, and Mechatronics), or in IFAC aliated journals. All papers presented will be recorded as an IFAC Publication. Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be required to transfer copyrights electronically and/or in hard copy. The IFAC Journals and, after these, IFAC aliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, he/she is free to submit an expanded version of the presented material for journal publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented and, if the paper has appeared on the website www.IFAC-PapersOnLine.net, also a reference to this publication.

National Organising Committee

Chair: Shuichi Adachi Vice chair: Jun Sasaki Yoshiyuki Noda Member: Toru Asai Yoshio Ebihara Kenji Fujimoto Tomohisa Hayakawa Manabu Kano Akira Kitamura Eiji Konaka (Editor) Akira Morita Shigemasa Nakagawa Satoshi Nishino

Contact
IFACMMM 2012 Secretariat ISS, INC. Kojimachi 311 Bldg. 9F, 3-1-1, Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083, Japan Fax: +81-3-3230-3725 E-mail: info@ifacmmm2012.org Web-site: www.ifacmmm2012.org

Ukai (Cormorant shing) * Gasshozukuri in Shirakawa-go * Shirakawa-go located in nothern part of Gifu prefecture is one of Japan's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Gasshozukuri is a house built of wooden beams combined to form a steep thatched roof that resembles two hands together. The design is exceptionally strong and, in combination with the unique properties of the thatching, allow the houses to withstand and shed the weight of the region's heavy snowfalls in winter. - Excerpt from Web-site of Shirakawa Village Oce Ukai -cormorant shing on the pristine Nagara river - is one of the most summer sights of Gifu City. Ukai has about 1,300 years of history, and has traditionally been protected by both local and national authorities. Ukai is a traditional night shing method in which an usho (Cormorant Fishing Master) and u (cormorant birds) work together to sh by the ames of Kagari-bi (shing re lanterns) reecting on the dark surface of the river, with Mt Kinka and lofty Gifu Castle on its summit providing a dramatic backdrop to the scene. - Excerpt from Web-site of Gifu Convention Bureau * The photos have been presented by Gifu Prefecture Tourism Federation.

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