Technical Tracks
Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Agents
Track Chairs: Luis Ribeiro (Sweden); Niels Lohse (UK); Marga Marcos Munos(Spain)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Multi-Agent Systems in industry
- Distributed intelligent control
- Industrial Internet of Things
- Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
- Service Oriented manufacturing
- Digital Twins
- CPS Privacy, Fault Tolerance, and Security
- CPS Synthesis and Verification
- Coordination
- Modelling and Analysis and Validation
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Machine Learning in an ICPS context
- Design Patterns and System Engineering
- Human Factors in ICPS
- Performance Measures and Benchmarking for ICPS
Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Applications
Track Chairs: Daswin De Silva (Australia); Joern Ploennigs (Ireland); Evgeny Osipov (Sweden); Bin Zhang (US)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
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Machine Learning (ML)
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Deep Learning in Industrial Applications
- Online learning from streaming data
- Unsupervised machine learning for industrial scenarios.
- Machine learning on Embedded Devices on the Edge
- Scalable machine learning
- Machine learning for multimodal information fusion
- Interpretability and traceable ML
- Text, image, audio, video and social media analysis in industrial applications
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Semantic Reasoning and Digital Twins
- Semantic Models for Industrial Applications
- Reasoning on IoT data
- Combined Reasoning and Machine Learning in Digital Twins
- Context and semantic learning for industrial domain expertise
- Digital Thread Models
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Human Machine Interaction
- Intelligent human behaviour monitoring in industrial scenarios
- Intelligent human machine interaction in industrial scenarios
- Intelligent techniques for active perception
- Intelligent user profiling and modelling for industrial applications
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Optimization and Control
- Reinforced learning in Control
- Model-Predictive Control
- Fuzzy-based control
Safety and Security in Industrial Applications
Track Chairs: Gerhard Hancke (Hong Kong); Athanasios Vasilakos (Sweden); Mario de Sousa (Portugal); Hao Wang (Norway); Kim Fung Tsang (Hong Kong)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Model-based testing of Cyber-Physical Systems
- Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems
- Security and Privacy for Industrial Internet
- Security protocols and efficient cryptographic implementation
- Secure device and key management
- Secure and timely processing and storage of industrial process data
- Case studies on security designs or cyberattacks
- Formalised threat models and attack scenarios
- Anomaly and intrusion detection for industrial systems
- Hardware and embedded device security
- Industrial communication/network security
- Standards for development of Safety related Industrial Software
- Human factors in safety applications
- Case studies of safety related software applications
- Evaluation and Estimation of software reliability, safety
- Use of formal methods in developing and evaluation of safety related applications
- Programming Languages for safety related applications
- Engineering Tools for development and evaluation of safety related applications
- Development Methodologies for safety related applications
System and Software Engineering, Runtime Intelligence
Track Chairs: Roopak Sinha (New Zealand); David H?stbacka (Finland); Wenbin William Dai (China)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Requirements engineering - elicitation, specification, analysis, management
- System architectures for industrial automation systems
- Software architectures for industrial automation system
- Application-level or reference architectures for sub-domains like factory, building, packaging and production systems
- Design-level concerns and strategies for industrial automation systems
- Development of software including tools, patterns and processes
- Co-design and development of hardware-software aspects of industrial automation systems
- Context-aware industrial automation systems – design and development
- All aspects of developing intelligent industrial automation systems, including agent-oriented, machine learning/artificial intelligence approaches
- Testing of industrial automation systems - test-driven development, testing strategies, integration and system-level testing, early testing methods
- Deployment of industrial automation systems-DevOps, configuration management, product lines, dynamic reconfiguration, fault management, diagnostics
- Runtime monitoring and verification of industrial automation systems
- Multi-Agent Systems as applied to industrial automation systems
- Model driven engineering in intelligent automation systems
- Fog technologies in intelligent automation systems
Robotics and Mechatronics in Industrial Applications
Track Chairs: Hiroaki Nishi (Japan); Yasutaka Fujimoto (Japan); Kangyun Jo (Korea); Chengbin Ma (China); Geng Yang (Sweden)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Mechatronics
- Motion Control
- Model Predictive Control
- Trajectory Generation
- Path Planning
- Industrial Robots
- Mobile Platform
- Aerial Drone
- Collaborative robots
- Autonomous vehicles in industry
Distributed and networked control and automation systems
Track Chairs: Alois Zoitl (Austria); Yang Shi (Canada); Omar Lopez Orozco (Mexico); Yinliang Xu (China); Shanying Zhu (China)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Model Driven Development and its application to automation systems (UML, SysML, ...)
- Domain Specific Modeling and Programming Languages (IEC 61131, IEC 61499, ...)
- IT Modeling techniques (OOP, Components, Agents, SOA,...) for Automation Systems
- Tool Chains, Platforms, and Frameworks for Software Design and Development
- Web-of-Things for monitoring and control
- Performance Analysis
- System Design and Architecture
- Self-Configurable and self-recovery Systems
- Application of Real-Time Ethernet Networks
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Application of Service-Oriented Architectures
- Distributed Architectures for Adaptive Systems.
- Edge Computing Architectures for Automation Systems
Industry Digitalisation and Digital Twins in Industrial Applications
Track Chairs: Chenhao Zhou (Singapore); Jie Xu (US); Stamatis Karnouskos (Greece); Seppo Sierla (Finland); Dietmar Bruckner (Austria)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Technologies and Standards for Digitalisation and Digital Twins
- Architectures for Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0
- Digital Twin Applications and Technologies
- Simulations and Digital Twins
- Verification and Testing with the help of Digital Twins
- Digital Twins in the context of Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Cloud/Edge Industrial Data Analytics
- IoT Infrastructures for Machine Learning and Data Science
- Migration of technologies and industry systems
- Digitalisation Tools and Technologies
- Empirical Use-Cases
- Challenges, visions and roadmaps for industrial digitalisation
- Digital Transformation Strategies, Change Management & Education
Human, Computer and Machine Interaction
Track Chairs: Milos Manic (US); Cesare Fantuzzi (Italy); Bingo Ling (China)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
- Autonomous Cars and Vehicles
- Cyber Security in HSI
- Robots and HSI in Robotics
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Internet of Things and Smart Homes
- Health Care and Assistive Devices
- Wearable Devices, Networks and Systems
- Aging
- Ambient intelligence
- Human performance and modelling
- Human-system interaction
- Sensing and recognition
- User-centered design
- Human factors and human-in-the-loop
- Human-centered automation
- Adaptive interaction
- User profiling
- Technology acceptance
Real-time and networked embedded computing and Internet of Things
Track Chairs: Carlos Pereira (Brazil); Minghua Xia (China); Zheng Liu (Canada); Farhad Shahnia (Australia); Mohamed Elhoseny (Egypt)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Innovations in real-time capable networks
- Real-Time Performance of Industrial IoT Technologies
- Software-defined networks (SDN) and Time-sensitive Networks (TSN)
- Deterministic IoT technologies
- Real-Time SOA: Real-Time in service-oriented architectures and RESTful industrial communication
- Schedulability analysis
- Calculating and estimating worst-case execution time and response time
- Real-time issues of distributed control in industrial cyber-physical systems
- Industrial IoT protocols (OPC UA, DDS, MQTT, AMQP, COAP, IEEE 11073 SDC…) and how to ensure, improve, evaluate the real-time performance
- Real-time performance of localisation systems and location-based systems
- Verification and validation of distributed embedded applications
- Real-time hypervisor
- Security verification of real-time (operating) systems and industrial automation systems
- Network and system security of industrial communication networks
- Distributed control via industrial communication networks
- Factors influencing latencies in emerging industrial communication networks
- Real-Time wireless mesh networks
- Combining legacy real-time networks (e.g. CAN) with emerging real-time IP-based networks (TSN, SDN)
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in networked embedded systems and IoT applications
- Deep learning technologies for distributed real-time embedded systems
Factory Automation and Communication Systems
Track Chairs: Martin Wollschlager (Germany); Georg Frey (Germany); Borja Ramis (Finland); Xiang Chen (China)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Automated Manufacturing Systems
- Distributed Planning and Control of Industrial Systems
- Security Analysis and Privacy Enforcement in factory automation
- Agents vs. service oriented systems in factory automation
- Cloud computing for factory automation
- Big data and data mining in factory automation
- Industrial Ethernet networks;
- Industrial wireless networks;
- Fieldbus networks;
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT);
- Industry 4.0 compliant communication systems;
- Remote configuration and network management;
- Critical and real time solutions for factory automation and communication systems
- Industrial Cybersecurity and Cybersafety for industrial communications and control
Technologies and Infrastructures for Smart grids, Buildings, and Cities
Track Chairs: Pierluigi Siano (Italy); Andrea Benigni (US); Thomas Strasser (Austria); Joao Martins (Portugal)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information Technology
- Demand response system / Power grid / Power markets / New energy services
- Smart city infrastructure / New smart city services
- Integration, control, and management of distributed energy resources
- Microgrids / Smart grids / Smart infrastructures
- Energy distribution and controlling system
- Wide area automation technology in smart city and smart grid
- Integration of smart city infrastructures
- Data interaction between smart city infrastructures
- Quality of services in smart city and smart grid
- Management and application of data captured by energy system
- Simulation, evaluation, and optimization of energy systems
- End-use applications and loads of energy
- Community data privacy and security
- Data science in Smart community and Smart grid
- Smart mobility (e.g. parking, car sharing, …)
- Smart buildings and how they interact with other parts of the city
- Interoperability between different systems and domains in the city
- Avoidance of vendor lock-in and cost of implementation and maintenance
Education in Engineering and Industrial Informatics
Chairs: José Barata (Portugal); Andrea Matta (Italy); Jo?o Martins (Portugal)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Educational Tools
- Continuous Learning
- Distance Learning
- Remote e-learning
- Internet applications
- Online courses
- Educational Materials and Methods
- Information and Communication Technologies in Laboratories
- Education and smart devices
- Sustainable development ICT aspects
- Education and social networks
- University-Industry Collaboration
Industrial Informatics Tools
Track Chairs: Yijie Peng (China); Andrei Lobov (Norway); Bilal Ahmad (UK)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Tools to support specific methods proving that without given tool(s) an application of a given method will be difficult
- Tools to support vertical and/or horizontal integration of systems and/or enterprises
- Tools to support product and/or system lifecycle management
- Tools for complex cross-domain systems
- Tools for data / information exchange and integration
- Tools for data acquisition, processing, analysis and visualisation
Technologies and Applications for Smart City
Track Chair: Po Yang (UK); Federico Baronti (Italy); Kan Yu (Australia)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Smart transportation, logistics, supply chain, cold chain, smart harbour, ….
- Smart grids, smart/green buildings, smart energy, energy storage, …
- Communication technologies, digital broadcasting, narrow band/wideband technologies, …
- Factory automation, robotics
Intelligent Finance
Track Chair: Heping Pan (China); Jianwu Lin (China); George Yuan (China); Ahmet Goncu (China); Arthur Berd (USA); Yimin Yang (USA)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Overview on Frontiers of Intelligent Finance and FinTech
- Financial Market Predictive Analysis, Modeling and Monitoring
- Global Macro-Economic Analysis, Modeling and Monitoring
- Quantitative Investment and Intelligent Trading
- Financial Business Intelligence and FinTech
- Financial Risk Modeling and Management
- Leading-Edge Intelligent Finance Systems
Technologies for 5G Wireless Communication
Track Chair: Kaixue Ma (China); Wenquan Che (China)
Topics under this track include (but not limited to):
- Solid State Active and Passive Devices, Characterization, and Modeling
- RF Integrated circuit (IC) and Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)
- Microwave/Millimeter wave/THz Circuit
- RF Front-end component, circuit and system
- Advanced Wireless Transceiver Architectures
- Advanced packaging techniques for RF applications
- Microwave antenna
- Smart Antennas, Phased and Active
- Advanced Wireless Architecture and Systems: Design, Modeling, Beamforming, and Simulation
- Cognitive, Software Defined, and Multiband Reconfigurable Radios
- Advanced Modulation, Channel Coding, and Signal Processing for SISO, SIMO, MISO, and MIMO.