Location
Formerly called “Formosa” or Beautiful Island by the Portuguese, the island of Taiwan is endowed with a wide-variety of breathtaking natural scenery, from sublime Taroko Gorge to the coral reefs and beaches of Kenting. Having established itself as a stronghold of the IT industry since the 90’s, Taiwan is ranked the fourth among the world’s top suppliers of information products in 2004. This conference will match the mainstream of Taiwan hi-tech to the prominent innovative researches, providing a bridge between the state of systems technology and the best engineering practice.

Theme
Emerging Information Technology for Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
SMC 2006 strives to bring together people in the area of SMC to provide an international forum for the reporting of current developments, to summarize the state-of-the-art, and to exchange new ideas and advances on all aspects of systems engineering, human machine interfaces, and emerging cybernetics. In recent years, a trend has emerged in which bio-inspired intelligence plays a key role in these aspects to pursue for novel technology. The resulting techniques vitalize life science engineering and daily life applications. In light of this trend, the theme for this conference is Emerging Information Technology for Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics. Papers related to this theme are especially solicited, including theories, methodologies, and applications of intelligent systems in science, technology, security, education etc.