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20th International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking - EI2N 2026

29 - 30 October, 2026 - Angers, France

In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics - IN4PL 2026


CO-CHAIRS

Qing Li
Tsinghua University
China
 
Brief Bio
Qing Li, PhD, is a professor of the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, P.R. China. He received his bachelor, master and doctor’s degrees from Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. He has taught at Tsinghua University since 2000 with major research interests in system architecture, enterprise modelling and system performance evaluation. He has published six books and more than 140 papers in esteemed magazines in China and abroad.
Hervé Panetto
University of Lorraine
France
 
Brief Bio
Dr. Hervé Panetto is a Professor of Enterprise Information Systems at University of Lorraine, TELECOM Nancy. He teaches Information Systems modelling and development, and conducts research at CRAN (Research Centre for Automatic Control), Joint Research Unit with CNRS where he is managing a research project on the use of ontology for formalising models related to the interoperability of production systems, and mainly their enterprise information systems. He has been elected member of the Academia Europaea in 2018. He has been elected, in 2020, Chairman of the IFAC French National Member Organization (NMO). He received his PhD in production engineering in 1991. He has strong experience in information systems modelling, semantics modelling and discovery, and database development. His research field is based on information systems modelling for enterprise applications and processes interoperability, with applications in enterprise modelling, manufacturing processes modelling, furniture data modelling. He is working in ERP and MES integration from a Business to manufacturing perspective. He is expert at AFNOR (French National standardisation body), CEN TC310 and ISO TC184/SC4 and SC5. He participated in many European projects including IMS FP5-IST Smart-fm project (awarded by IMS) and the FP6 INTEROP NoE (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software). He is serving as expert-evaluator for the European Commission, FNR, AERES and ANR in the domain of ICT. He was visiting Professor in 2013-2015 in the frame of a Science Without Borders PVE project with PUC Parana, Brazil and full visiting Professor in 2016 at the UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil. He is editor or guest editor of books and special issues of international journals. He is author or co-author of more than 150 papers in the field of Automation Engineering, Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise systems integration and interoperability. After being Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 5.3 “Enterprise Integration and Networking” from 2008 to 2014. He is Chair of the IFAC Coordinating Committee 5 on “Manufacturing and Logistics Systems” since 2014. He received the IFAC France Award 2013, the INCOSE 2015 Outstanding Service Award and the IFAC 2017 Outstanding Service Award. He is co-organiser of the yearly OTM/IFAC/IFIP EI2N workshop on “Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking”. He is General Co-chair of the OTM Federated conferences. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Annual Reviews in Control, Computers In Industry, the International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, the International Journal on Universal Computer Science, the scientific journal Facta Universitatis, series Mechanical Engineering, and an Associate Editor of the international Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIM), Springer, the Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) journal, Taylor & Francis, the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, the Journal of Industrial Information Integration (JIII), Elsevier, and the Journal SN Computer Science (SNCS), Springer Nature.
Yannick Naudet
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Luxembourg
 
Brief Bio
Yannick Naudet is Lead Scientist and Scientific Coordinator at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). His main research topics concern the human digital twin and cyber-physical and social systems, context-aware adaptation and personalization, systems modeling and systems interoperability, especially focusing on approaches based on ontologies. Among others, he conducted research on human digital twin, cognitive Interoperability and cognitive digital twin, cyber-physical-social systems and personalization, enterprise interoperability, dynamic services composition optimization, ontology-based personalization, semantic web, ontology alignment and intelligent crowd-sourcing. He holds a PhD in Computer Sciences, Automatic and Signal Processing and a full ADR (“Autorisation à Diriger des Recherches”) from University of Luxembourg. Dr. Naudet was involved in multi-disciplinary European research projects in diverse domains including enterprise, multimedia, education, cultural heritage and healthcare. He is currently co-leading AI4C2PS, a French-Luxembourgish project dealing with cognitive interoperability in Digital Twin -supported cyber-physical enterprise, and coordinates research on Human Digital Twin across four international research projects. He was part of the INTEROP NoE (IST-FP6) and a member of the scientific committee of the GIS INTEROP Grande Region, pole of the INTEROP V-LAB. He is co-chair of the yearly OTM/IFAC/IFIP EI2N workshop on “Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking” and of the SMAP international workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalisation.
Christos Emmanouilidis
University of Groningen
Netherlands
 
Brief Bio
Christos Emmanouilidis is a Faculty Member at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, carrying over 20 years of experience from positions in Industry, Academia, Research, & Innovation supporting organisations, and standardisation bodies, working at the intersection of engineering, computing, and industrial management. He has had leading roles in projects related to Human-Centric AI & Cognitive Systems, Robotics & Automation, as well as Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Technologies to serve industrial application needs. His teaching portfolio includes Smart Industry Operations, Data Mining & AI, Internet of Things, Information Systems and Management, Technology-Enabled Innovation, and Asset Management. He has Editorial appointments in several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, Engineering Applications of AI, Neural Computing and Applications, Annual Reviews in Control, and Journal of Risk and Reliability. He has been involved in standardisation committees at CEN and ISO. He has acted as Research & Innovation expert, including on Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3) and Industrial Transitions, in relation to activities of the EC's JRC and EIT. He is a Senior IEEE Member and serves as the Chair of the IFAC TC5.1 WG A-MEST on Advanced Maintenance Engineering Services and Technologies, and as the scientific Vice Chair of IFAC TC5.1 on Manufacturing Plant Control. He is a Founding Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), and a member of IFIP WG5.7 ‘Advances in Production Management Systems’.

SCOPE

In the context of the Factory of the Future, enterprises have to become S^3 (Enterprises: Smart, Sensing and Sustainable) Enterprises. These system-of-systems must adapt to be sustainable not only along the environmental but also economic dimensions. The sensed information must be support smart decisions. In this context, enterprise integration, interoperability and networking are major disciplines that study how enterprise Artificial Intelligence can sustain Enterprise Integration and Interoperability aims at improving synergy within the enterprise so that sustainability is achieved in a more productive and efficient way. Enterprise Interoperability and Networking aim at more adaptability within and across multiple collaborating enterprises.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Interoperability in a Big-Data Society
  • Cyber Physical Systems Interoperability
  • Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Interoperability in the Context of Internet of Things
  • Human-System interoperability
  • Artificial Intelligence-enabled Data Management
  • Artificial Intelligence Models for Interoperability
  • AI in Digital Twins

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: July 31, 2026
Authors Notification: September 9, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: September 18, 2026

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yuval Cohen, Industrial Engineering, Afeka Tel-Aviv College of Engineering, Israel
Michele Dassisti, DMMM, Polytechnical University of Bari, Italy
William Derigent, CRAN, Universite de Lorraine, France
Ben Gaffinet, University of Lorraine, France
Lilia Gzara, INSA Lyon, France
Udo Kannengiesser, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Petri Kannisto, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut (BFI), Germany
Eduardo Rocha Loures, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
Khaled Medini, LIMOS, Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Nejib Moalla, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, France
Arturo Molina, Instituto Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Mexico
Angel Ortiz, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Silvana Pereira Detro, UFPR, Brazil
Pedro Ponce Cruz, Institute of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Manufacturing, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Henderik Alex Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
David Romero, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Georg Weichhart, Digital Transformation, Primetals Technologies, Austria
Esma Yahia, Arts et Métiers campus Aix-en-Provence, France
Milan Zdravkovic, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS

After thorough reviewing by the workshop program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference. The proceedings are abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

IN4PL Workshops - EI2N 2026
e-mail: in4pl.secretariat@insticc.org
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