| # | Session Code | Special Session Name | Organizers | Contact Info | Description |
| 1 | et214 | System Control and Optimization | Jinn-Tsong Tsai, Jyh-Horng Chou | jttsai@mail.nptu.edu.tw | Link |
| 2 | xh98f | Fuzzy and intelligent control systems | Ching-Chih Tsai | cctsai@nchu.edu.tw | Link |
| 3 | dw1y2 | Simulation Optimization and Building Automation | Jie Song, Qing-Shan Jia, Chun-Hung Chen | jie.song@pku.edu.cn | Link |
| 4 | 5s8y7 | Design Methods and Tools for Fast Evolving Production and Delivery of Personalized Products | Cesare Fantuzzi, Birgit Vogel-Heusern | cesare.fantuzzi@unimore.it | Link |
| 6 | 5vp6y | Advances in Welding Automation | Anna-Karin Christiansson, Yuming Zhang | Anna-karin.christiansson@hv.se | Link |
| 7 | 46iuw | Stochastic and simulation Modeling in Healthcare Management | Jie Song, Xiaolan Xie, Jingshan Li | jie.song@pku.edu.cn | Link |
| 8 | h2ke5 | Advances in Sustainable Production Automation | Andrea Matta, Ying (Gina) Tang, Congbo Li | matta@sjtu.edu.cn | Link |
| 9 | y179r | Practice of Automation in Production and Operations Management | Zheng Wang | wangz@seu.edu.cn | Link |
| 10 | ga7s1 | Industrial Wireless Networking | Mikael Gidlund, Johan Åkerberg | mikael.gidlund@miun.se | Link |
| 11 | 8fb46 | Cloud-based and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies for Machine Tools | Min-Hsiung Hung, Chao-Chun Chen, Haw-Ching Yang | hmx4@faculty.pccu.edu.tw | Link |
| 12 | 71u8w | Theory and Applications of Petri nets | Francesco Basile, Cristian Mahulea | fbasile@unisa.it | Link |
| 13 | 2mvm5 | Logic Control and Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems | Christoforos Hadjicostis, Spiridon Reveliotis, Rong Su | chadjic@ucy.ac.cy | Link |
| 15 | uyb96 | Modeling, Performance Analysis, and Optimization of Discrete Event System | Rong Su, Qing-Shan Jia, Christoforos Hadjicostis, Spiridon Reveliotis | rsu@ntu.edu.sg | Link |
| 16 | 42ye9 | Process Mining: Theory and Applications | Xiaolan Xie, Vincent Augusto | augusto@emse.fr | Link |
| 18 | hidr8 | Modeling, Control, and Scheduling of Semiconductor Manufacturing Tools | Yan Qiao, Naiqi Wu | yq58@njit.edu | Link |
| 19 | 8b586 | Emerging Technologies on Industrial Robotics and Manufacturing Automation | Biao Zhang, George Zhang | biao.zhang@us.abb.com | Link |
| 21 | 7ww9m | Quantitative Methods in Semiconductor Manufacturing | Lars Moench, Claude Yugma | Lars.Moench@fernuni-hagen.de | Link |
| 22 | y46vj | Discrete Event & Hybrid Systems and their Automation | Hesuan Hu, R. S. Sreenivas | hshu@mail.xidian.edu.cn | Link |
| 23 | 5893c | Robotic Micro and Nanomanipulation | Xinyu Liu, Li Zhang, Sylvain Martel | xinyu.liu@mcgill.ca | Link |
| 24 | e8qsg | Process Control | Charlotta Johnsson | charlotta.johnsson@control.lth.se | Link |
| 25 | 8fh7c | Predictive Modeling and Control of Additive Manufacturing | Qiang Huang | qiang.huang@usc.edu | Link |
| 27 | 9p6q4 | Sustainable Manufacturing Automation Systems | Qing Chang, Yong Lei, Xiaoning Jin | qing.chang@stonybrook.edu | Link |
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| 30 | p63s6 | Automation in Smart Logistics: Advances and Applications | Maria Pia Fanti, Hesuan Hu, Walter Ukovich, MengChu Zhou | mariapia.fanti@poliba.it | Link |
| 31 | 327t8 | Smart Manufacturing Performance Assurance – Metrics, Models and Methods | Yan Lu, Björn Johansson | yan.lu@nist.gov | Link |
| 32 | 44w7r | Sensor-based System Informatics and Control | Hui Yang | huiyang@usf.edu | Link |
Special sessions that are proposed but did not achieve a sufficient number of papers to be included in the final program are marked with a strikethrough.