As a continuation of IHMSC 2009 to IHMSC 2011, which were held successfully in Hangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou respectively, the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (IHMSC 2012) will take place at Jiangxi Normal University in Nanchang, China, between 26-27 August, 2012. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for exchanges of research results, ideas for and experience of application among researchers and practitioners involved with all aspects of Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics. 

Publication:

The proceedings of IHMSC 2012 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Service (CPS), and indexed by EI and ISTP. The proceedings of previous three IHMSC from 2009 to 2011 have been indexed by EI and ISTP, and included in the digital libraries (CSDL, IEEE Xplore, IEEE IEL). 
Human-Machine Systems£º
Agents and agent-based systems 
Artificial Immune Systems 
Artificial Life 
Biologically inspired systems 
Bioinformatics/ Collective robotics 
Computational Intelligence 
Cybernetics for Informatics 
Decentralized systems 
Distributed systems 
Embedded intelligence 
Evolutionary robotics 
Fuzzy Systems and Their applications 
Genetic and evolutionary computation 
Heuristic Algorithms 
Human-machine interfaces 
Human-robot interaction 
Unmanned systems 
Image Processing 
Pattern Recognition 
Intelligent systems 
Interactive and Digital Media 
Interactive Design 
Intelligent Internet Systems 
Kansei (sense/emotion) Engineering 
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 
Machine Learning 
Machine Vision 
Media Computing 
Medical Informatics 
Neural Networks and Their Applications 
Optimization 
Self-Organization 
Swarms, Swarm intelligence 
Virtual reality 

Cybernetics:
Artificial intelligence 
Robotics 
Computer Vision 
Control systems 
Learning organization 
Bioengineering 
Biocybernetics 
Homeostasis 
Medical cybernetics 
Synthetic Biology 
Systems Biology 
Decision support system 
Cellular automaton 
Adaptive systems 
Engineering cybernetics 
Ergonomics 
Biomedical engineering 
Systems engineering 
Entrepreneurial cybernetics 
Management cybernetics 
Organizational cybernetics 
Operations research 
Systems engineering 
Dynamical system 
Information theory 
Systems theory 
Psycho-Cybernetics 
Systems psychology 
Affect Control Theory 
Sociocybernetics