The purpose of the 9th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems is to create a bridge between science and practice. We will bring together worldwide people from academia and industry and exchange ideas to strengthen cooperation in the area of innovation and high technology. The conference aims to identify the possibilities and future directions of development in science and technology and the challenges and problems associated with their implementation.

1. The works that will be presented at the conference will focus on the following issues:
   1. Topic – Sustainability of Manufacturing in the context of Industry 4.0

•  Advanced manufacturing technologies•Smart factory

•Smart logistics and transport systems

• Energy efficiency and green solutions•ICT in Industry

•Circular economy implementation in production

•Product life cycle analysis and eco-design methodologies

•Innovative techniques in design, manufacturing and product-development Impact of new and innovative techniques on environment

2. Topic – SMART Manufacturing and Management Approaches

•Machine-to-machine (M2M) & device-to-device (D2D) communications

•Smart materials and manufacturing

•Green Manufacturing

•Industrial Engineering

•Production Planning and Scheduling

•Information and Communication Security/e-Forensics

•eMobility and eHealth

•Human factors in manufacturing

•Wireless sensor networks and practical applications

3. Topic – Ubiquitous Digitalization, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality in manufacturing organizations

•Modelling, Analysis and Simulation in Manufacturing

•Modelling of Processes

•Augmented, virtual and mixed reality

•Computer aided systems

•Autonomous robots

•Robotics and Automatization

•Industrial Internet of Things

•Big data analytics and Data mining

•Digital twin

•IoT of  Cybersecurity in manufacturing. 

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH.

1. Go to Confy+ website.
2. Log in or sign up as a new user.
3. Select your desired track.
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions.

• All papers must be submitted in English. 
• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Regular papers should be up to 12-15+ pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.