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CO-SPONSORED by IFAC http://www.ifac-control.org

IFAC Conference Board liaison
Prof. Xiaofan Wang (Shanghai Key Laboratory of Power Station Automation Technology, P. R. China)

Main co-sponsored IFAC TC:
IFAC TC 5.3. Integration and Interoperability of Enterprise Systems (I2ES)

Other co-sponsored IFAC TC:
IFAC TC 3.2. Computational Intelligence in Control
IFAC TC 3.3 Telematics: Control via Communication Networks
IFAC TC 4.1. Human Machine Systems
IFAC TC 5.1. Manufacturing Plant Control
IFAC TC 9.2. Systems and Control for Societal Impact

CO-SPONSORED by IFIP http://www.ifip.org

Main co-sponsored IFIP WG:
WG 5.8 Enterprise Interoperability

CO-CHAIRS

	Qing Li Tsinghua University China

Short 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

Short Bio Dr. Hervé PANETTO is a Professor of Enterprise Information Systems at University of Lorraine. He teaches Information Systems modelling and development at TELECOM Nancy 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 neuro-symbolic AI for formalising models related to the interoperability of cyber-physical-social systems. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS), Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), member of the European Academy of Engineering (EAE) and of the Austrian Academy of Engineering (AAE), a Fellow of the AAIS (Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences) and Fellow of the AIIA (Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance). He is IEEE senior member. He received his PhD in production engineering in 1991. He is working Systems interoperability, with applications in human-systems collaboration. He studying Hybrid Artificial Intelligence techniques to the cognitive interoperability of Cyber-Physical Systems and Human-centric systems, including cognitive systems and cognitive digital twins. He was visiting Professor in 2013-2015 in the frame of a Science Without Borders PVE project with PUC Parana, Brazil and 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 300 papers in the field of Automation Engineering, Enterprise Modelling and applied AI for Industry 5.0. From 2020 to 2023, he was Chairman of the IFAC French National Member Organization (NMO). After being Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 5.3 “Enterprise Integration and Networking” from 2008 to 2014 and Chair of the IFAC Coordinating Committee 5 on “Cyber-Physicial Manufacturing Enterprises” from 2014 to 2020, he is now Vice-Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 9.3 “Control for Smart Cities”. He received the IFAC France Award 2013, the INCOSE 2015 Outstanding Service Award and the IFAC 2017 Outstanding Service Award. In 2025, he received the NAAI Distinguished Artificial Intelligence Award. He is Editor-In-Chief of the Annual Reviews in Control, Member of the board of 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, member of the Advisory Board of the Digital Twin International Journal (DTIJ), and a former Regional Associate Editor Europe of the international Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIM), Springer. He is an Associate Editor of the Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) journal, Taylor & Francis, the Journal of Industrial Information Integration (JIII), Elsevier, the Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Elsevier, and the Journal SN Computer Science (SNCS), Springer Nature. He is a supporter of ELLIS, and member of DAIRO, TAILOR and CLAIRE Networks.

	Yannick Naudet Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Luxembourg

Short 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

Short Bio Christos Emmanouilidis is a Faculty Member at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, with 25 years of experience from 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, in diverse application areas and socio-technical systems, with a particular focus on Production, Asset, and Maintenance Management. Recent EU funded projects on Human-Centric AI in such domains include STAR, HumAIne, AI4Work, SkillAibility, and AIXpert. He has acted as Research & Innovation expert, having served as Innovation expert for Regional Government and the EC’s JRC and EIT regarding the introduction of innovative digitalization solutions in support of Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3), Industrial Transitions, and also for EIT’s KICs Monitoring and Evaluation. He has editorial appointments in several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, Engineering Applications of AI, Neural Computing and Applications, and Annual Reviews in Control. He is a Senior IEEE Member, a Founding Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), and a member of IFIP WG5.7 ‘Advances in Production Management Systems. Christos has been IFAC TC5.1 AMEST secretary between 2014-2020 and chair between 2020-2026. He is the new IFAC TC5.1 (Manufacturing Plant Control) chair for the term 2026-2029, while also contributing to IFAC TC5.3, TC9.2, TC6.4, and TC4.1.

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: August 7, 2026 (expired)
Authors Notification: September 9, 2026 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: September 18, 2026 (expired)

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
Vicente Lucena, Federal Univerity of Amazonas, 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.
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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.

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