The Fifth International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices (IEEE SSD'08) will be held in Amman, Jordan, and will be organized by PhiladelphiaUniversity(Amman) and The University of Sfax (Tunisia) in collaboration with Bundeswehr University (Germany) in July 2008. The conference is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS), IEEE Lebanon Section and the IET.

SSD took place for the first time in Hammamet (Tunisia), in March 2001. It was named International Conference on Smart Systems and Devices.

Statistics had highlighted that SSD'01 participants were involved in 4 major themes: Power Electrical Systems, Systems Analysis and Automatic Control, Communication and Signal Processing, and Sensors, Circuits and Instrumentation Systems. These areas were the focus of SSD'03 and SSD'05, held in Tunisia, March 2003 and March 2005, respectively, yielding the International Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices.

Following the remarkable increase of the number of participants, the SSD framework has been rethought in an attempt to reach higher scientific levels, which has led to a multi-conference arrangement in SSD’07. SSD'08 will follow its successor, and will be a consecration of this arrangement yielding to the following conferences:

International Conference on Systems Analysis and Automatic Control

International Conference on Power Electrical Systems

International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing

International Conference on Sensors, Circuits and Instrumentation Systems

Authors of best presented papers at SSD conferences will be offered an opportunity to publish their work in a newly launched international journal entitled: Transactions on Systems, Signals and Devices (ISSN 1861-5252).

The conference is indexed in the IEEE Database, and Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore.