{"id":106,"date":"2025-07-02T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:51:16","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/?page_id=106","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfp-section\">\n<h2 class=\"cfp-title\">Call for Papers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cfp-block\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CFP_ISFA2026_ver260107.pdf\" class=\"cfp-button\" target=\"_blank\">ISFA2026 CFP \ud83d\udd17<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n    The <strong>ISFA conference<\/strong>, a biennial summit on <strong>manufacturing automation and related technologies<\/strong>, was initiated in 1986 under co-sponsorship of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE) in Japan, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (ASME co-sponsorship still tentative, as of May 2025).\n<\/p>\n<p>It provides a focused and intimate setting for dissemination and discussion of advanced manufacturing technologies and other related fields such as dynamical systems and control, logistics and informatics, and design and optimization.\n<\/p>\n<p>It features synergistic blend of topics encompassing various aspects of manufacturing such as sensing and control, mechatronics, material design and synthesis, process modeling, lean manufacturing, diagnosis and prognosis, and emerging concepts including artificial intelligence, Internet-of-Things (IoT), cloud computing, and environmental sustainability, etc.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"cfp-track-box\">\n<h3>Technical Tracks:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"track-list\">\n<li>Cutting and machine tools<\/li>\n<li>Digital design and manufacturing<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing systems and automation<\/li>\n<li>Additive manufacturing sensing and control<\/li>\n<li>AI technologies in manufacturing processes<\/li>\n<li>Lean and sustainable manufacturing<\/li>\n<li>Robotics &#8212; Embodied intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Digital twin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px;\">Track Chairs and Co-Chairs:<\/h3>\n<div style=\"overflow-x: auto;\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin-top: 15px; font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.4;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px; background-color: #f5f5f5; text-align: left;\">Track<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px; background-color: #f5f5f5; text-align: left;\">Topic<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px; background-color: #f5f5f5; text-align: left;\">Chair<\/th>\n<th style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px; background-color: #f5f5f5; text-align: left;\">Co-Chair<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 1<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Digital design and manufacturing<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Keiichi Nakamoto<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Kyle S. Saleeby<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Georgia Institute of Technology)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 2<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Manufacturing systems and automation<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Akio Hayashi<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Kanazawa Institute of Technology)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Wenlong Zhang<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Arizona State University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 3<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Additive manufacturing sensing and control<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Tatsuaki Furumoto<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Kanazawa University)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Peng Wang<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Case Western Reserve University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 4<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Cutting and machine tools<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Norikazu Suzuki<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Kobe University)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Xiaoliang Jing<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(University of British Columbia)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 5<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Robotics &#8212; Embodied intelligence<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Masao Nakagawa<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Doshisha University)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Kevin Haninger<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Fraunhofer in Berlin)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 6<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">AI technologies in manufacturing processes<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Daisuke Kokuryo<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Kobe University)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Farhad Imani<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(University of Connecticut)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 7<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Lean and sustainable manufacturing<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Toru Eguchi<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Hiroshima University)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Cheryl Li<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(University of New Haven)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zhen Chen<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(University of Huston)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Track 8<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Digital twin<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Nobutada Fujii<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Kobe University)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px;\">Rajiv Malhotra<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.88em;\">(Rutgers University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Papers ISFA2026 CFP \ud83d\udd17 The ISFA conference, a biennial summit on manufacturing automation and related technologies, was initiated in 1986 under co-sponsorship of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE) in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isopt.is.ritsumei.ac.jp\/isfa2026\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}