This year, more than ever, we have an impressive number of distinguished speakers. The Plenary Talks are on topics from our three technical areas: Systems Science and Engineering, Human-Machine Systems, and Cybernetics. Professor Tachi’s talk on Telexistence presents the vision of a society where humans ‘exist’ and operate at a different physical or virtual location and can perform tasks there. Professor Matarić’s talk on personalized human-robot interaction examines how robots can improve the quality of life of users of various ages who need assistance. Professor Herrera‘s talk focuses on Trust in Artificial Intelligence, a must-have characteristic when AI is employed in healthcare, government, justice, and daily life. The Keynote Talks were selected to address specific areas related to the quality of life: Ecological systems and achieving food sustainability, and addressing global climate challenges (Professor YanFen Wang); Healthcare and bioinformatics including genetics (Professor Bandyopadhyay); Fighting diseases including cancer (Professor Kovács). They also address technological approaches: Transdisciplinary approaches to scientific and societal problems of national and global significance (Professor Madni); Adopting technologies developed for space programs to address societal challenges (Dr. Hadaegh); and Advanced Computing techniques, including Quantum Computing (Dr. Bernabé-Moreno). The Invited Guest Speakers were selected to provide deep technical knowledge in specific areas of great significance or a novel vision of addressing a fundamental societal problem. Dr. Howard will share his decades of expertise in advancing AI systems in the defense and healthcare sectors, focusing on using Genetic Programming to solve the core problem of Explainable AI. Professor Yingxu Wang will address basic research in autonomous AI and symbiotic human-machine systems underpinned by contemporary intelligent mathematics. Dr. Fabunmi, an MIT Ph.D. with decades of contributions to advanced technologies in support of US DoD, has dedicated his efforts over the last two decades to helping developing nations advance through education and entrepreneurship.
Plenary Speakers

Susumu Tachi
Telexistence and Society

Maja Matarić
A Robot Just for You

Francisco Herrera
Trustworthy AI
Keynote Speakers

Yanfen Wang

Fred Hadaegh

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Azad Madni

Levente Kovács

Juan Bernabé-Moreno
Invited Guest Speakers
Keynotes of the Forum on Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Howard
Explainable AI

Yingxu Wang
Autonomous AI and Symbiotic Human-Machine Intelligence Systems

Samarjit Das
Forum on Education for Economic Prosperity and Increased Quality of Life

James Ayinde Fabunmi
From Brain Power to Economic Power
SMC 2023 Workshops
Future of Telepresence
AI and (cyber)security: friend or foe?
Patient’s Data and Models in Neuroergonomics for Healthcare
Toward Long-Term Robotic and Human Presence on the Moon and Mars
Welcome Message from the Organizers
It is a great pleasure and honor to invite you to the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), the flagship conference of the IEEE SMC Society. SMC 2023 will be held on October 1–4, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawai’i. This year’s theme is “Improving the Quality of Life’. The conference will provide a stimulating forum for researchers, educators, and practitioners to learn, share knowledge, report the most recent innovations and developments, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and cybernetics. In addition to technical sessions, SMC 2023 will hold keynote addresses, tutorials, workshops, panel discussions, forums, exhibits, and receptions to enrich the fruitful discussions among conference attendees. We will do our best to make this event an intellectually stimulating and enjoyable experience.
Adrian Stoica, NASA/Caltech, and Ferat Sahin, Rochester Institute of Technology, General Chairs
Important Dates
All Deadlines are 23:59 Los Angeles time
Contributions to theory and practice, including but not limited to, the following technical areas, are invited:
In the area of Systems Science and Engineering: Adaptive Systems, Autonomous Systems, Communications, Conflict Resolution, Consumer and Industrial Applications, Control of Uncertain Systems, Cooperative Systems and Control, Cyber-physical Systems, Decision Support Systems, Digital Twins, Discrete Event Systems, Distributed Intelligent Systems, Electric Vehicles and Electric Vehicle, Supply Equipment, Enterprise Information Systems, Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis, Homeland Security, Infrastructure Systems and Services, Intelligent Green Production Systems, Intelligent Power Grid, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Large-Scale System of Systems, Manufacturing Automation and Systems, Mechatronics, Micro and Nano Systems, Quality and Reliability Engineering, Robotic Systems, Service Systems and Organizations, Smart Buildings, Smart Cities and Infrastructures, Smart Metering, Smart Sensor Networks, Space Systems, System Architecture, System Modeling and Control, Technology Assessment, Trust in Autonomous Systems.
In the area of Human-Machine Systems: Affective Computing, Assistive Technologies, Augmented Cognition, Biometrics and Applications, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Cognitive Computing, Companion Technology, Cooperative Work in Design, Entertainment Engineering, Environmental Sensing, Networking and Decision-Making, Ethics of AI and Pervasive Systems, Haptic Systems, Human-Centered Transportation, Human-Collaborative Robotics, Human Enhancements, Human-Machine Interaction, Human Factors, Human Perception in Multimedia, Human Performance Modeling, Human Space Flight, Information Systems for Design and Marketing, Intelligent Assistants, Interactive and Digital Media, Kansei Engineering, Medical Informatics, Multimedia Systems, Resilience Engineering, Shared Control, Systems Safety and Security,Team Performance and Training, Telepresence, User Interface Design, Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality, Visual Analytics/Communication, Wearable Computing
In the area of Cybernetics: Agent-Based Modeling, AIoT, AI and Applications, Artificial Immune Systems, Artificial Social Intelligence,Artificial Life, Big Data Computing, Biometric Systems and Bioinformatics,Cloud and Robotics Integration, Complex Networks, Computational Intelligence, Computational Life Science, Cybernetics for Informatics, Cyborgs, Deep Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems, Fuzzy Systems and their Applications, Metaheuristic Algorithms, Hybrid Models of Computational Intelligence, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Computational Intelligence in Information, Assurance, Intelligent Internet Systems, Knowledge Acquisition, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, Media Computing, Neural Networks and their Applications, Optimization and Self-Organization, Approaches, Quantum Cybernetics, Quantum Machine Learning, Representation Learning, Soft Computing, Socio-Economic Cybernetics, Swarm Intelligence
Other events beyond the regular technical sessions will enrich the meeting.
Please also consider contributing to the special sessions and workshops that will be organized. Some of these are newly proposed. Some are becoming a tradition. One of our great successes has been the Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems , now at its 13th edition. With the support of IEEE Future Directions we also organize the third Workshop on Telepresence.
There will also be a Forum of Women in Engineering, a Forum on Future Directions and our traditional Presidents’ Forum. A Joint SMCS-INCOSE panel: ‘Seeing and Building the Future of Systems Engineering’ is also confirmed, with participation of the top executives in INCOSE and SMC Society.
We will have a small on-site exhibition and a larger Virtual Exhibition this year. There will be also some tracks that will be held online only. So, though we are back to in-person attendance, SMC 2023 will have a virtual component. We encourage in-person participation in Maui, but at the same time, authors with travel restrictions, will be approved for on-line participation in the virtual tracks. We will transmit live the keynotes, tutorials, and some of the sessions, in real time and with recordings. There are many benefits of being able to attend a conference in person, among the top being the ability to interact better with fellow researchers, to network, and establish collaborations, in an environment that is conducive to detachment from routine activities and immersion in science and technology, that fosters creativity. Nonetheless, travel and health considerations may prevent in-person author attendance, and our policy will be to grant paper presentation online. Our aim is to get the best papers, and do the best to accommodate the authors to attend in their best way for them. On-line non-authors can register without a special approval.
For authors who do not yet have publishable results but want to present work in progress, applications, and new projects that have recently received funding, and to facilitate early feedback and foster collaborations, as well as to allow invited speakers to summarize their talks, we will accept two-page abstracts, which will be published in the on-line conference proceedings available to registrants.
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If you are interested in volunteering for a committee role, please email to a.stoica@ieee.org, and indicate your intent and credentials. Thank you.