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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 2024 (THETA 24), which will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on May 16-18, 2024. The conference follows the tradition of the 23 automation and testing-related scientific events, organized in Cluj-Napoca since 1981 under the name THETA/AQTR.
AQTR 2024 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.
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.
Venue: HUB UTCN, 4-8 Gh. Barițiu Str. / 3rd floor
Social event: Turda Salt Mine. Bring warm clothes, the temperature inside is 12° Celsius.
Event | | | Deadline |
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Special session proposals | | | February 15, 2024 January 29, 2024 |
Paper submission | | | February 15, 2024 February 5, 2024 |
Notification of acceptance | | | April 8, 2024 |
Camera-ready papers | | | April 22, 2024 |
Advance registration | | | April 22, 2024 |
Late registration | | | May 2, 2024 |
Student forum submission | | | April 29, 2024 |
Student forum notification of acceptance | | | May 6, 2024 |
Student forum camera-ready papers | | | May 10, 2024 |
Each paper must have a full registration (IEEE Member/Non-member/Life/Retired Member) 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 of April, 2024.
Registrations are open until the 2nd of May, 2024. Registrations and payments will not be processed after this day.
Fee type | Currency | ||
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USD | EUR | RON | |
IEEE Member | |||
Advance registration | 260 | 250 | 1275 |
Late registration | 315 | 300 | 1545 |
IEEE Non-member | |||
Advance registration | 315 | 300 | 1545 |
Late registration | 380 | 365 | 1860 |
IEEE Student member | |||
Advance registration | 185 | 180 | 910 |
Late registration | 225 | 215 | 1105 |
IEEE Student Non-member | |||
Advance registration | 225 | 215 | 1105 |
Late registration | 270 | 260 | 1320 |
IEEE Life & Retired member | |||
Advance registration | 145 | 140 | 715 |
Late registration | 175 | 170 | 860 |
Accompanying person | |||
Adv./late registration | 175 | 170 | 860 |
Additional | |||
Extra Social Event Ticket | 60 | 58 | 295 |
Extra Welcome Dinner Ticket | 40 | 38 | 195 |
Extra Lunch Ticket | 35 | 34 | 170 |
Full Registration fee for IEEE members / IEEE retired/life members / non IEEE members includes: access to all the conference sessions; conference proceedings (on USB stick); coffee breaks; 2 lunches (Thursday, Friday); welcome dinner; social event; souvenirs.
Student Registration fee for IEEE student members / non IEEE student members includes: access to all the conference sessions; conference proceedings (on USB stick); coffee breaks; 2 lunches (Thursday, Friday); welcome dinner; social event; souvenirs. Please scan your student ID and have the scan ready when registering, to upload it with the form. A Student registration only is not sufficient for inclusion in the program and proceedings.
The accompanying person adv./late registration fee includes: Access to all the conference sessions; coffee breaks; 2 lunches (Thursday, Friday); welcome dinner; social event.
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
Cristina Mureșan
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
Iulia Ştefan
TU Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Szilárd Enyedi
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
Nicoleta Arghira
Romania
Baris Arslan
Turkey
Camelia Avram
Romania
Radu Babiceanu
USA
Isabela Birs
Romania
Roxana Both-Rusu
Romania
Adrian Burlacu
Romania
Lucian Busoniu
Romania
Alexandru Codrean
Romania
Adrian Colesa
Romania
Rajeeb Dey
India
Mihaela Dinsoreanu
Romania
Virgil Dobrota
Romania
Jozsef Domokos
Romania
Monica Dragoicea
Romania
Mircea Dulau
Romania
Eva Dulf
Romania
Victor Estrada-Manzo
Mexico
Ioana Fagarasan
Romania
Silviu Folea
Romania
Eugen Gergely
Romania
Florin Gogianu
Romania
Wolfgang Halang
Germany
Sorin Herle
Romania
Mihai Hulea
Romania
Jus Kocijan
Slovenia
Eugen Lupu
Romania
Mihalis Maer
Romania
Cosmin Marcu
Romania
Oliviu Matei
Romania
George Mois
Romania
Anca Molnos
Romania
Ionut Muntean
Romania
Mihai Muntean
Romania
Vlad Muresan
Romania
Pal-Stefan Murvay
Romania
Ioana Nascu
Romania
Anastasios Natsakis
Romania
Octavian Pastravanu
Romania
Carla Pinto
Portugal
Doina Pisla
Romania
Petrica Pop Sitar
Romania
Dan Popescu
Romania
Mihai Postolache
Romania
Radu-Emil Precup
Romania
Antonio Sala
Spain
Dan Selisteanu
Romania
Helga Silaghi
Romania
Valentin Sita
Romania
Stefan Sosnowski
Germany
Martin Stava
Czech Republic
Octavian Stefan
Romania
Alin Suciu
Romania
Mircea Susca
Romania
Gian Antonio Susto
Italy
Levente Tamas
Romania
Romulus Terebes
Romania
Domagoj Tolic
Croatia
Mihaela Unguresan
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; real-time 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 self-test/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; quantum computing; 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:
Emerging Technologies for the Future of Sustainability
Organized by Roxana Rusu-Both, Iulia-Cristina Stanica, Alexandra Cernian.
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.
Paper submission will be managed using EasyChair. If you have used this system previously, you can use the same username and password. If this is the first time you are using EasyChair, you will need to create a new account. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you can submit your paper.
The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to AQTR. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content.
Each submitted paper should be a complete PDF manuscript in English, up to six (6) pages (inclusive of all figures, tables, and bibliography). Papers not compliant with the required format or exceeding the page limit will be returned without review. Papers identified as double submissions with respect to other conferences and/or journals will be rejected. You will find the required format, templates and other help within the guidelines for manuscripts.
Student forum papers, containing original contributions of undergraduate and master students.
Submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aqtr2024 and choose the track AQTR 2024 Student Forum.
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).
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.