Scope
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The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.
All registered papers will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.


Topics
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1. Industrial Engineering and Healthcare

Objective(s):
To develop and propose a research for how industrial engineering may support health services research and health care delivery redesign. with a focus on health information technology (IT) and systems engineering.
To strengthen partnership between the health services community and the industrial engineering community to achieve the portfolio and program goals.

2. Advanced production, processing and manufacturing

Objective(s):
To strengthen factory automation systems. Research topics spanning the entire manufacturing spectrum in the field of robotics, mechatronic, and computer integrated manufacturing systems.

3. Sustainable Intrastructure

To strengthen and share knowledge on major infrastructure projects. Research topics include but not limited to latest innovation and designs on construction and operations and management.

4. Water Resources Planning and Management

To strengthen and share knowledge on water resources planning and management. Research topics include but not limited to planning, strategy development, operational and tactical decisions to optimize water cycle for sustainable water resources.

5. Heat transfer and fluids

To strengthen and share knowledge on heat transfer and fluids that can have positive impact on engineering applications.

6. Electronics and Electrical Engineering

To strengthen and share knowledge in electronics and electrical engineering in the following scope:
Sensors and sensing techniques, Artificial intelligence and optimization systems, Signal processing techniques, Industrial electronics, Automation, robotics and control systems, Image processing and transformations, Bioinformatics and Other related areas.

7. Internet of Things

The conference will also highlight technologies on IoT where actual deployment of products and services by the use of internet is utilized.

Publication
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All registered papers will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.

Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology
• International Journal on Wireless Information Networks (WINET)


Instructions for paper submission
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Papers should be in English.
Regular papers should be up to 12 pages in length (including references, figures, tables).
Short papers should be up to 6 pages in length.
Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.

General chair
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Lorena Ilagan, Dean, College of Engineering

About EAI
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This event is organized by EAI (www.eai.eu).

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.