The International Conference on Sensing, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Control (SDPC 2018) will be held in Xi’an, China, on August 15-17, 2018. SDPC 2018 will be held together by Northwestern Polytechnical University (China), Chongqing Technology and Business University (China), Carleton University (Canada), the IEEE Reliability Society, and International Society of Measurement, Management, and Maintenance. SDPC 2018 will offer opportunities to bring the experts from both academic and industrial fields together to attain synergetic exchanges of ideas and practices.

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original research and technical contributions for presentations and posters at the conference. All papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE CPS (EI Indexing). Approximately ten outstanding papers will be selected for a Special Column with Chinese Journal of Aeronautics - Elsevier (SCI Journal), and approximately forty outstanding papers will be selected for publication on Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (SCI Journal).

SDPC 2018 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in different but related domains to confront research results and discuss key problems. The scope of SDPC 2018 includes the research and development fields of collaboration technologies and their applications to sensing, diagnostics, prognostics, and control in industries and societies. Application domains include, but are not limited to, aerospace, electronics, energy, transportation, communication, construction, and many others.

The SDPC 2018 will set 5 Best Paper Awards (Certificates & Cash) for student authors/presenters, and will also set 5 Best Paper Awards (Certificates & Cash) for non-student authors/presenters.

English is the official language of the SDPC 2018.