IECON is the flagship conference of Industrial Electronics Society which attracts more than thousand participants. It is an international forum for discussion and presentation of the latest technologies and discoveries in the world of Industrial Electronics and related areas.

We would appreciate if you will kindly consider submitting a paper to the Special Session on

**** “Information Technology in Automation” ******

Technical Outline of the Session and Topics:
Information Technology is a driving force behind new and original functions and solutions in automation. This Special Session on Information Technology in Automation seeks novel contributions covering the development, adoption and application of information technology for automation systems.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
• IT Modeling techniques (UML, Object-Orientation, Agents, SoA, ...) for automation systems
• Data Modeling (CAEX, AutomationML, OPC UA, ...)
• Virtualization at the factory level, digital factory
• Integration with MES and ERP systems (Databases, Semantic Web Services)
• Web-based Setup, Maintenance and Configuration
• Tool chains, platforms, and frameworks for Software Design and Development

Please notice that currently IECON is a Conference recognized by the Web of Science.

We are looking forward to your contribution via the conference submission system (http://ieee-ies.org/submit-cgi-bin/authorlogin.pl?event=IECON12) by April 15th, 2012.

Please make sure to select Technical Track "SS63 Information Technology in Automation" in the submission system!

Please indicate your intention to submit a paper to one of the special session organizers:

Georg Frey, Saarland University, Germany (georg.frey@aut.uni-saarland.de)
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy (lucia.lobello@dieei.unict.it)
Birgit Vogel-Heuser, TU Munich, Germany (vogel-heuser@ais.mw.tum.de)