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Call for Papers
SITE 2025
The 2nd Workshop on Systems and Technologies for IT/OT
Integration
in Industry 4/5.0 Environments (SITE 2025)
Co-located with IEEE CAMAD 2025
October 14-16, 2025 – Tempe, AZ, United States
On-site event
website: https://site2025.spilab.es
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Technically co-sponsored by IEEE & IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
Recently, the Industry 4.0 revolution claims the need for a paradigm shift
consisting of a massive adoption of Information and Communication
Technologies by all factory departments (from business to production
lines), to transform production and product delivery processes radically.
I4.0 fosters a deep change in the rigid organization model of the factory.
The multiple implications of the "connected factory" concept will lead the
production environments to unexpected developments, impacting both OT and
IT layers. Connected and interacting objects will populate the factories of
the future.
In the prospected landscape, a progressive and decisive integration of the
IT and OT layers is expected to occur, which practitioners are used to
refer to as IT/OT convergence, stressing the shortening of the gap (both
physical and conceptual) between the manufacturing processes running at the
OT layer, and storage, networking, computing resources, and
business-oriented software suites populating the IT layer.
In this context, emergent paradigms, approaches, and technologies like
artificial intelligence (AI), privacy-enhancing technologies (PET),
cybersecurity, blockchain (BC), Cloud Continuum, Zero Defect Manufacturing
(ZDM), Zero Waste Manufacturing, Industrial Sustainability, IIoT Platforms,
Advanced Service Orchestration in industrial deployments, 5G/6G
communication, Digital Twins (DT), and metaverse are key enablers shaping
the development of an IT/OT convergent smart factory.
The focus of SITE is on the convergence of IT and OT layers within the
modern Industry 4/5.0 compliant factories, and the systems and technologies
that ease or enable this revolutionary integration.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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- Application of Industrial Cloud Continuum.
- IIoT Platforms and Service Orchestration.
- 5G/6G communication for industrial deployments.
- Computing continuum for smart cities services.
- Digital Twins for industrial process or product monitoring.
- Edge data center deployment in industrial environments.
- ML- and AI-based approaches cloud/edge-based smart
city applications.
- AI-driven models, architectures, and frameworks for edge computing.
- Reliable communication protocols in industrial production lines.
- Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource
allocation in Industry 4/5.0.
- ML-evaluation for automatic road anomaly detection and predictive
maintenance.
- Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services
within/between industrial data.
- Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between
counterparts in data sharing/trading.
- Security and privacy techniques for IT/OT convergence in smart factory
applications.
- Post-quantum security and privacy for Industrial applications.
- Zero Waste/Defect Manufacturing.
- IIoT for the sustainability of modern industrial production plants.
- Green Manufacturing in Industry 5.0 deployments.
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks in Industry 5.0 environments.
- Interoperability of Digital Twins in the manufacturing industrial process.
Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in
SITE 2025. Manuscripts must be written in English, in the IEEE
double-column proceedings format, and their length should not exceed 6
pages (including tables, figures, references and appendices).
Authors can find the IEEE double-column conference proceedings template at
the following link:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Paper Review and Publication
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All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Accepted papers must be presented by at least one of their
authors, who must also register for the conference. Only accepted and
presented papers will appear in the CAMAD 2025 proceedings and submitted
for inclusion to IEEEXplore.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: August 5th, 2025
Notifications: August 15th, 2025
Camera Ready deadline: September 15th, 2025
Workshop Technical Program Committee Chairs (TPC Chairs)
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Riccardo Venanzi, University of Bologna
Kubra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University
Jaime Galán-Jiménez, University of Extremadura
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