Artificial intelligence & industrial applications a2ia'2020

The First edition of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Industrial Applications A2IA'2020 is scheduled to be held on 19-20 March 2020, Meknes, Morocco at Moulay Ismail University, National School of Arts and Crafts ENSAM. A2IA’2020 will offer oral, poster sessions, tutorials, and professional meetings. The program of the Conference intends to foster interaction so as to open the way to future cooperation between participants. All researchers and teams who develop research or recently became interested in the domains of applications of Artificial Intelligence are invited to submit their novel and unpublished research or work.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (6-8 pages, can exceed 8 pages). 
  • Template MS Word is available for download here.
  • Template LaTex is available for download here.
• Posters.
  • Download the Template for Poster .pptx (85cm/60cm) here. 

(Regular, short, poster) paper submission deadline: December 15, 2019

Notification of acceptance: January 12, 2020

Camera ready deadline: January 26, 2020

Participant early registration: February 03, 2020

Participant late registration: February 24, 2020

Welcome Reception: March 18, 2020

Conference sessions: March 19-20, 2020

List of Topics

Potential topic areas include (but are not limited to): 

Track 1: Smart Operation Management

• Operational Excellence 4.0, Lean Six Sigma 4.0, Smart Manufacturing
• Circular economy and sustainability in the context of industry 4.0
• Intelligent Decision-support systems, Leadership 4.0
• Key Performance Indicators in Smart Factories: Production systems, cyber physical Systems
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems to support smart manufacturing
• Inventory Management 4.0, Smart warehouses
• Smart Maintenance, predictive maintenance, smart monitoring systems, safety and reliability
• Quality 4.0, Intelligent fault detection, fault analysis, diagnostics and monitoring
• Big data analytics
• Industry 4.0 ERP MES Integration
• Product design and development in the era of industry 4.0
• Digital, smart responsive and adaptive factory, Facilities Planning and Management
• Smart supply chain management, Supply chain management 4.0
• Project management in industry 4.0
• Additive Manufacturing
• Human Machine Interaction, Ergonomics

Track 2: Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms and Techniques

• Neural networks, fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems, Machine Learning/ Deep learning and real world applications
• Software engineering
• Metaheuristics and their applications in intelligent automation and global optimization: Evolutionary Algorithms, swarm intelligence, intelligent programming environments, conception and validation of AI-based software
• Software and hardware architectures for the real-time use of AI techniques, Architectures, algorithms and techniques for distributed AI systems, multi-agent based control, holonic control
• Real-time intelligent automation, and their associated supporting methodologies and techniques, including control theory and industrial informatics
• Knowledge processing, knowledge elicitation and acquisition, knowledge representation, knowledge compaction, knowledge bases, expert systems
• Perception, image processing, pattern recognition, vision systems, tactile systems, speech recognition and synthesis
• Aspects of software engineering, intelligent programming environments, verification and validation of AI-based software, software and hardware architectures for the real-time use of AI techniques
• Understanding complex networks
• Internet-of-things
• Cyber-physical systems, Intelligent transportation systems & smart vehicles

Track 3: Artificial Intelligence for Information and System Security in Industry

• Industrial Communication and Industry 4.0
• Autonomous networking
• Cooperative communication and networking, Content distribution network (CDN), Contents/Information centric networking (CCN/ICN), Cross-layer design and optimisation
• Cyber-physical system (CPS) Communication
• Device-to-device communications, Internet of things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications
• Network security, trust and privacy
• Network simulation and modeling, Network survivability and reliability, Software defined networking (SDN) and network virtualisation
• Wireless/mobile networks (WBAN/WPAN/WLAN/WMAN/WWAN), 5G cellular systems and heterogeneous networks, WSN

Track 4: Artificial Intelligence for Energy

• Artificial Intelligence for Solar and Wind Energy
• Sea and Hydroelectric Power computing System
• Thermal and Recycling computing System
• Biomass computing System
• Intelligent Command and control systems for Renewable Energy
• Intelligent and Renewable energy for IT equipments
• Intelligent and Green technology
• Modelling Hydrogen energy storage
• Smart Energy efficiency, Smart Grid
• Distributed generation under uncertainty
• Energy and environmental innovation and technology development
• Energy risk assessment methods and analysis
• Artificial Intelligence for Gas transportation and pipelines
• Non-carbon energy technologies
• Power network organisation and regulation issues; smart grids
• Energy saving in Industry and buildings technology
• Sustainable energy research and applications for industrsy
• Sustainable energy for electrical vehicles and components
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning studies for sustainable energies and applications
• Computational methods for sustainable energies

Track 5: Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture

• Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture : Drone technology in Agriculture, Geospatial technology in Agriculture, Digital Pathways in Agriculture, Geo-localisation and analytic systems for Vegetable Science, Plant Pathology
• ICT & IoT , Sensors network and Agriculture communication systems
• Agricultural Engineering and remote control systems
• Data Science and Big Data Analytics for Agriculture
• Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Sustainable Management of Land, Water resources and Environment, Seed Science and Technology, Water, Energy, Food management in Agriculture, Food Safety and Wastage Management Tools
• Data analytics of Socio-Economic dimensions for Sustainable Agriculture & Aquaculture
• Smart systems for Plant productivity
• Modelling Tools for Agriculture

Other Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Tracks

To heighten the technical program and concentrate on particular subjects and fields, I2AI'2020 will include other sessions, in addition to the regular tracks. These sessions can include topics relating to the subjects of interest, or new topics related to the ones named in regular tracks.

Committees

Scientific Committee

• Ahad Ali (LTU, USA)
• Belhadi Amine (Cadi Ayyad University, Groupe OCP)
• Benoussa Rachid (ENSA, Marrakech)
• Charkaoui Abdelkabir (FST, Settat)
• Elfezazi Said (ENSA, Safi )
• Jamal Elbaz (ENCG Agadir, Université Ibn Zohr)
• Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes (University of Derby, UK)
• Vikas Kumar (UWE, UK)

Organizing committee

• ABOU El MAJD Badr (Med V Fac Sci - RABAT)
• AHMADI Abdessalam (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• BENGHABRIT Youssef (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• BENGHABRIT Asmaa (ENIM-RABAT)
• BOUAYAD Aboubakr (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• BOUHADDOU Imane (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• CHAIRA Abdellatif (Fac Sci - MEKNES)
• CHERRAFI Anass (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• EL HASSANI Ibtissam (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• MASROUR Tawfik (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• SEKKAT Souhail (ENSAM-MEKNES)
• ZEMMOURI El Moukhtar (ENSAM-MEKNES)

Invited Speakers

• Pr Andrew KUSIAK - Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Iowa
• Pr Amal EL FALLAH SEGHROUCHNI - Professor at Sorbonne and CNRS
• Pr Jiju ANTONY - Professor of Quality Management, Heriot-Watt University

Venue

The conference will be held in National School of Arts and Crafts ENSAM 15290 ENSAM-Meknes, Meknes 50500, Morocco.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to عنوان البريد الإلكتروني هذا محمي من روبوتات السبام. يجب عليك تفعيل الجافاسكربت لرؤيته.