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Mohammad Rahman
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
IEEE Milwaukee Section
Juan Ernesto Rodriguez
CMD Engineering
IEEE Coastal South Carolina Section
Juan Rojas
Guangdong University of Technology
IEEE Guangzhou Section
Daher Sayfeddine
Khatib and Alami
IEEE Oman Section

Faibish Sorin
Fast Data Group at EMC
IEEE Boston Section
● Gabor Sziebig
University of Tromsø, Arctic Univer-
sity of Norway
IEEE Norway Section
● Renaldas Urniezius
Kaunas University of Technology
IEEE Lithuania Section
● Richard Vaughan
Simon Fraser University
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IEEE Vancouver Section
Zhidong Wang
Chiba Institute of Technology
IEEE Tokyo Section
Hui Xie
Ningbo Institute of Materials Tech-
nology and Engineering
IEEE Harbin Section
Haibin Yu
Shenyang Institute of Automation
IEEE Harbin Section.

Knowledge-Based Automation:
CASE 2018 in Munich/Garching, Germany

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he 2018 IEEE International
Conference on Automation
Science and Engineering (CASE
2018) was held at the Technical
University of Munich, Germany, 20-24
August 2018. CASE 2018 was the 14th
edition of this conference series. The
conference theme was knowledge-based
automation, with the idea that our
automation systems need to become
(and are becoming) more and more
intelligent. They enable flexibility,
adaptability, and self-awareness during
operation, as required for cyberphysical
(CP) systems and especially for CP
production systems (CPPSs) in any
domain. Artificial intelligence in general
(and learning in particular) is one
means to gain such knowledge at
runtime. Model-based development
including a modeled knowledge base is
another means. Both were addressed in
the conference's plenary talks and
technical sessions.
CASE is traditionally a multitrack
conference. In addition to the estab-
lished CASE topics (foundations of

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automation science and applications
in manufacturing, logistics, health
care, and automation on the meso and
microscale), special emphasis was
given this year to attracting contribu-
tions on the topic of knowledge-based
automation. With the support of the
IEEE Robotics and Automation Soci-
ety and numerous sponsors from
academia and industry, an exciting

program was presented, including
keynote talks, a panel discussion,
workshops, award tracks, parallel ses-
sions, an exhibition involving six
companies and four associations/proj-
ects, laboratory tours, plant tours, and
various social events (Figure 1). In
total, 262 papers from 33 countries
were presented during the conference,
including those from IEEE Robotics

Figure 1. The 2018 CASE chairs: (from left) Program Chair Georg Frey, General Cochair
Bengt Lennartson, General Chair Birgit Vogel-Heuser, and Program Chairs Alexander
Fay and Cesare Fantuzzi stand in front of the banquet location, Paulaner im Tal.
(Photo courtesy of Birgit Vogel-Heuser.)

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