<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** FOURTH CALL FOR PAPERS ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES 2018)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 1-2 October, 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="http://www.cyprusconferences.org/es2018" class="">http://www.cyprusconferences.org/es2018</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">(*** Extension Deadline: 4 June, 2018 ***)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">WELCOME</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Welcome to the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Enterprise Systems (ES), also referred to as Enterprise Information Systems,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">has become increasingly popular over the last 20 years because it integrates</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and extends business processes across the boundaries of business functions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and corporate walls, as well as country border lines. The International</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES) has been held every year since 2013.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The sixth in the series will be held at St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">8-9 October, 2018. The conference is hosted by the Department of Computer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Science, University of Cyprus.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">This conference series is focusing on both the technical and application</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">aspects of enterprise systems, the complex and cross-disciplinary</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">problems of enterprise integration, and the new technological frontiers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">such as Industrial Integration, Industrial Information Integration, and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Industry 4.0. The objectives of the conference are to provide high quality</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">research and professional interactions for the advancement of science</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and technology. The main features of the conference include Keynote</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Speeches, Regular and Special Sessions. It has been highlighted by the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: <a href="http://ieeesmc.org/" class="">http://ieeesmc.org/</a> .</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">SCOPE</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">We welcome original and survey articles about the latest advances of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">technology. The final results can be state-of-the-art, requirements,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">fundamental theories, models, frameworks, algorithms, methodologies,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">platforms, protocols, prototypes, testbeds, field trials, case</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">studies/stories, field experiences, standardization efforts, regulatory</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">activities, education and training innovations, etc. The application</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">areas include aeronautics and astronautics, agriculture, automotive,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">building, construction, energy, finance, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">process industry, power, transportation, etc.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">TOPICS</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The topics of interest include but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Enterprise Systems for Industry 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Cyber Physical Systems for Industry 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Internet of Things for Industry 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Big Data for Industry 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Security and Privacy Protection for Industry 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• System Engineering and Human Factors for Industry 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• IoT-enabled Smart Manufacturing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">A full list of subtopics for each one of the above topics can be found</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">on the conference web site.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">PAPER SUBMISSION</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The submitted paper should adhere to the double-blind review policy. All</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">submissions will be handled electronically. Papers that do not comply with</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Paper types:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Full papers present final result. They must not exceed 8 pages.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Short papers can contain preliminary results. They must not exceed 6</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">pages.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Work-in-progress papers to present valuable and latest progresses of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">ongoing projects: 4 pages.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Note, all manuscripts shall be written in English, using the IEEE conference</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">template (double column, size 10). Templates can be found at:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" class="">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a> .</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Please use the following submission link for Easy Chair:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=es20180" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=es20180</a> .</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">PUBLICATION AND SPECIAL ISSUES</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Database which is indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected papers will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">invited for a special issue by the Journal of Industrial Integration and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Management, World Scientific, with theme "Next-Generation Enterprise</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Systems in the Industrial Integration Era". More information is available</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">on the conference web site.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Regular Paper Submissions (al types) due: 4th June 2018 (extended)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 23rd July 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 13th August 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Author Registration: 13th August 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Honorary General Chairs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Aurona Gerber, South Africa, IEEE SMC EAE TC Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Alta Van der Merwe, South Africa, IEEE SMC EAE TC Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Li Da Xu, USA, IEEE SMC EIS TC Co-Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Program Chair</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Program Co-Chairs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ling Xia Li, Old Dominion University, USA</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Wattana Golf Viriyasitavat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Yale Yu, Infosys Australia & New Zealand</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Chris Zhang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Zhuo Zou, Fudan University, China</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Program Committee</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="http://www.cyprusconferences.org/es2018/pages/pc.html" class="">http://www.cyprusconferences.org/es2018/pages/pc.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>