Main Topics

Main topics of the Symposium are as follows but all types of papers, posters and presentations on information management in general are also welcome:

Industry 4.0 ecosystem 

  • Cyber-physical systems
  • The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
  • Cloud computing
  • Digital infrastructure and broadband conncetivity
  • Internet Technologies, IPv6.2, smart and collaborative networks
  • The Reference Architecture Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
  • M2M communication
  • New business models
  • Mass customization
  • Human factors in Industry 4.0
  • Smart factories, smart products and smart objects
  • Open science, open innovation, and Fab Labs

Information Management in Industry 4.0

  • Smart libraries, data and information centers
  • Data and knowledge creation, representation, reasoning, sharing and transfer
  • Value-added data and information services in Industry 4.0
  • Perosnalized knowledge provision and services
  • Networking resources, people, databases and services
  • Software driven information services and platforms
  • Smart objects with embedded information systems
  • Research data management
  • Education for Information Management in Industry 4.0

The Internet of Data and Industry 4.0

  • Big data in Industry 4.0
  • Trusted data environments
  • Smart objects as data and information carriers
  • Data intelligence
  • Data governance
  • Security and data privacy
  • Data breaches by increased connectivity and data sharing
  • Data protection and liability policies
  • Personalized traced data
  • Data science, smart analytics and service innovation

The Internet of Services and Industry 4.0

  • Business intelligence and Information Management
  • Semantic intelligence and Information Management
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Semantic networks
  • Data mining
  • Data visualization
  • Data integration
  • Semantic integration
  • Value-added chain
  • Service innovation
  • Mobility