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IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) is the flagship automation conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and constitutes the primary forum for cross-industry and multidisciplinary research in automation. Its goal is to provide a broad coverage and dissemination of foundational research in automation among researchers, academics, and practitioners. IEEE CASE 2019 will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on August 22-26, 2019. The theme of the conference is Smart Automation .

IEEE CASE 2019 invites special session proposals, workshop proposals, regular papers, work-in-progress and industry papers related to the topics of the conference, which include but are not limited to:

- Adaptive automation systems

- Agent-based collaborative automation systems

- Automated fault detection, diagnostics, and prognostics

- Automation in life science

- Autonomous systems

- Big data, data mining, and machine learning

- Cloud-based automation

- Cognitive Automation

- Cyber physical production systems and industry 4.0

- Cybersecurity in automation systems

- Human-in-the-loop, human-machine interactions, human-robot / robot-robot collaboration

- Micro- and nano-scale automation technologies and applications

- Modeling, simulation, and optimization of automation systems

- Networked control systems

- Power and energy system automation

- Sensor-fusion for intelligent automation systems

- Smart factories, smart logistics and supply chains

- Smart products with embedded intelligence

- Smart automation in construction and manufacturing

- Smart home/building automation

- Smart and connected healthcare automation

- Standardization in smart manufacturing/home/building/healthcare etc.

- Sustainability and green automation