the 14th International Conference on Automatic Control, Modelling & Simulation(ACMOS '12) and the 11th International Conference on Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics,Optoelectronics (MINO '12) were held in Saint Malo & Mont Saint-Michel, France, April 2-4,2012. The conferences provided a platform to discuss large scale systems, digital control,cybernetics, human-machine systems, fault tolerance, microprocessors, microelectronics,nanoelectronics, quantum electronics, biomolecular electronics, optoelectronics etc. withparticipants from all over the world, both from academia and from industry.