The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Topic 1: Enterprise Systems for Industry 4.0

• Business-IT Alignment and IT Agility
• Enterprise Modelling and Integration
• Decision Support Systems
• Enterprise Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
• Enterprise Systems for Business Process Management
• Enterprise Systems for Case Management
• Information integration and interoperability
• Cross-organizational collaboration and virtual enterprise
• Integration of (legacy) enterprise applications and information
• Information Governance
• Enterprise Architecture and Engineering
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Topic 2: Cyber Physical Systems for Industry 4.0

• Artificial intelligence and autonomous systems
• Smart agents and systems
• Cloud computing techniques for industrial systems
• Cloud robotics
• Cloud-based automation and control systems
• Model based development for CPS
• Semantic technologies for CPS
• Formal methods for industrial and enterprise applications
• Smart logistics for complex services
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• E-Health Systems
• Smart Grid Systems
• Smart Homes, Buildings, Communities, and Cities

Topic 3: Internet of Things for Industry 4.0

• Internet of Things, Services, and People
• Industrial internet and tactile internet
• Wireless sensor and actuator network
• Automation networks, field buses, and Time Sensitive Networks
• Green communications and computing
• Ultra-reliable and ultra-low latency networks
• Super dense networks
• Automotive networks and Internet-of-Vehicles
• New PHY/MAC design and signal processing techniques
• Next generation networks e.g. 5G for industries
• IP-fication and interoperability of communication technologies

Topic 4: Big Data for Industry 4.0

• Innovative approaches for data collection (e.g., sensor-based wearable devices, location-based mobile devices)
• Data analysis (e.g., new econometrics, machine learning, decision science models) of big data
• New methods to extract business intelligence from structured and unstructured business data (e.g. data in the form of text, video, audio, link structure, etc.)
• New methods for the creation, sharing and reuse of big data
• Tools and technologies for deploying and managing big data
• Cloud-based data storage and exchange
• New approaches to combine multiple methods of research on big data
• New methods introduced from reference disciplines (e.g. statistics, biology, medical science, computer science, physics, etc.) for the business analysis of big data

Topic 5: Security and Privacy Protection for Industry 4.0

• Security in industrial networks
• Smart device information leaks
• Trusted and trustworthy computing and cloud services
• Security in cloud-based enterprise infrastructure
• Cloud and cyber security
• Privacy preservation in data release
• Cryptography, key distribution, and security management
• Asymmetric encryption for low capacity devices
• Privacy and data governance

Topic 6: System Engineering and Human Factors for Industry 4.0

• System-of-systems methodology and practices
• Social networks and social computing
• Service design and engineering
• Management of innovation in complex enterprise environment
• Human-in-the-loop automation, control, operation, and optimization
• Advanced human-machine/computer/robot/facility-interaction
• Wearable technologies and human centric sensing
• User centric design of industrial and enterprise systems
• Collaboration between human workers and robots
• Social-industry information exchange
• Enablers, drivers, and use cases of the Social Sensing

Topic 7: IoT-enabled Smart Manufacturing

• Cloud based innovation of business models and manufacturing eco-systems
• Cloud manufacturing, mass-customization, and flexible manufacturing
• Networked manufacturing infrastructure and services
• Flexible and rapid recombination and reconfiguration of workshop floors
• Task modelling, decomposition, and composition
• Sharing of distributed manufacturing facilities and fine grain scheduling
• Holistic optimization of manufacturing efficiency
• Interaction and integration of Cyber Factory and Physical Factory
• Evolution and integration of Manufacturing Execution Systems
• Product life cycle management
• Manufacturing Facility-as-a-Service