• SS01 - Robustness and Uncertainty Quantification in Industrial AI

  Organized by: Aldo Dagnino, North Carolina State University, USA, Marcel Dix, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany, Franz C. Kunze, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Gianluca Manca, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Mehmet Mercangöz, Imperial College London, UK.

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• SS02 - Practical Applications of Automated Guided Vehicles and Autonomous Mobile Robots for Warehouse Logistics

  Organized by: Peter Detzner, Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, Germany, Sven Franke, TU Dortmund University, Germany, Jana Jost, Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, Germany, and Steffen Bondorf, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

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• SS03 - Addressing Data Scarcity: Machine Learning, Information Fusion, and Sustainable AI

  Organized by: Christoph-Alexander Holst, inIT – Institute Industrial IT, Germany, Volker Lohweg, inIT – Institute Industrial IT, Germany, Rui Pinto, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Simona Salicone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Pedro Torres,Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal.

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• SS04 - Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Maritime Ports

  Organized by: Ioannis Krikidis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece, and Charalampos Orfanidis, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.

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• SS05 - Capability- and Skill-based Engineering of Manufacturing Systems

  Organized by: Tobias Kleinert, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Aljosha Köcher, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany, Kristof Meixner, CDL-SQI, TU Wien, Austria, Siwara Schmitt, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany, Michael Winter, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and Luis Miguel Vieira da Silva, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany.

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• SS06 - (Gen)AI driven Safe, Secure, and Sustainable (I)-IoT/CPS

  Organized by: Muhammad Taimoor Khan, University of Greenwich, UK, Dimitrios Serpanos, ISI Athena, ECE, University of Patras, Greece, Howard Shrobe, MIT CSAIL, USA, Kunio Uchiyama, AI Chip Design Centre, Japan.

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• SS07 - Evaluation Methods for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems’ Behavior

  Organized by: Luis Alberto Cruiz Salazar, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Cartagena, Colombia, Felix Gehlhoff, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany, Christoph Legat, Technical University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany, Artan Markaj, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany, Mehmet Mercangöz, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, and André Scholz, Siemens AG, Germany.

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• SS08 - Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical Production Systems (SECPPS)

  Organized by: Holger Eichelberger, University of Hildesheim, Germany, Kevin Feichtinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Kristof Meixner, TU Wien, Austria, Felix Rinker, TU Wien, Austria, and Alois Zoitl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.

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• SS09 - Industrial Wireless Systems Measurements, Performance Assessment, and Standardization

  Organized by: Rick Candell, NIST, USA, Allen Chen, IES Society, USA, Victor Huang, IES Society, USA, and Kang Lee, NIST, USA.

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• SS10 - Zero Defects Manufacturing in the Industry 4.0 Era AI-Driven Quality, Automation, and Cyber-Physical Systems

  Organized by: Gil Gonçalves, SYSTEC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, Paulo Leitão, CeDRI, Bragança Polytechnic University, Portugal, and Nikolaos Nikolakis, LMS, University of Patras, Greece.

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• SS11 - Smart and Efficient - Emerging Trends in Building Automation

  Organized by: Jakub Grela, AGH University of Krakow, Poland, Andrzej Ożadowicz, AGH University of Krakow, Poland, Lukasz Wisniewski, Institute Industrial IT / Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany, John Gialelis, University of Patras, Greece, Stylianos Karatzas, University of Patras, Greece, and Tullio Facchinetti, AGH University of Krakow, Poland.

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• SS12 - Industrial Cybersecurity Methods and Technologies

  Organized by: Paulo C. Bartolomeu, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Amjad Gawanmeh, University of Dubai, UAE.

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IEEE ETFA 2025 will include special sessions within the scope of the conference. Special sessions should have a clear focus and may cover new or emerging topics that are not sufficiently covered by the regular tracks, such as new technical trends and breakthroughs.

If you would like to organize a special session, please prepare a proposal using this template and send it in PDF format to Special Session Chairs, Andrea Bonci (a.bonci@univpm.it), Thilo Sauter (thilo.sauter@tuwien.ac.at), and Marco Porta (marco.porta@unipv.it). Please note the important dates below.

An individual can be a co-organizer of up to two special sessions. Special sessions are aimed at bringing together researchers from different institutions and countries. For this reason, it is recommended not to submit proposals with organizers from a single institution or from a single country.

Once a proposal has been approved, organizers must:
• Prepare a Call for Papers using this template.
• Publicize the special session and attract quality papers among researchers and practitioners. If the number of papers submitted to the Special Session is less than 6, the papers already submitted will be distributed to the regular tracks for the review process, and the Special Session will not be included in the program.

Papers submitted to special sessions will undergo the same review process as regular papers. The special session chairs of the respective special session are responsible for organizing a peer-review process, ensuring that at least 3 review reports per paper are received. In order to be part of the ETFA 2025 program, a number of 4 regular papers should be accepted after the review process. If the number of accepted papers is less than 4, the corresponding accepted papers will be moved to a regular track, and the Special Session will not be included in the program.

Conflict of Interest (CoI)

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Before starting the review process, organizers must declare papers that present a CoI for them. A CoI arises in situations where the judgment of a paper quality cannot be ensured solely on the basis of the technical content of the paper. In practice, Special Session organizers are asked not to nominate reviewers for their own paper or for an author from the same academic institution or a co-organizer of the same SS. To ensure independent reviews, these conflicts must be marked as such in the submission system and Special Session Co-Chairs notified so that they can arrange the reviews of such papers

• Please, check the IMPORTANT DATES here.