System automation

• Distributed systems
• Industrial supervisory systems
• Intelligent buildings
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Management of complex systems
• Robotics
• Safety instrumented systems (SIS)

Bioengineering and artificial organs

• Embedded systems
• Mechatronic systems
• Ventricular assistance

E-engineering

• Digital manufacturing
• E-factory
• E-manufacturing
• Virtual manufacturing
• Virtual reality in automation systems

Discret event and hybrid systems

• Control architectures
• Editors and simulators
• Modeling, analysis and control