The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) will be held on 20-24 August 2020 in Hong Kong. The IEEE 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. The theme of the conference is Automation Analytics.

IEEE CASE 2020 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-robot interact machine

- 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