The 52nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE52)

https://www.cie2025.science/

 29th - 31st October 2025

DISP Laboratory, INSA Lyon, Lyon, France

The 52nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE52) will be hosted by the DISP laboratory at INSA Lyon (France) between 29th and 31st October 2025. This conference will take place at INSA Lyon, LyonTech-La Doua, Villeurbanne, France. This conference is the latest in the series sponsored by Computers & Industrial Engineering: An International Journal, published by Elsevier. The journal Impact Factor was 6.7 in 2024, and its Cite Score was 12.7 for the same year, placing it at the 96th percentile among general engineering journals (Q1 per the Web of Science and ABDC ranking ‘A’).

We look forward to meeting you at the CIE52 in Lyon.

Dr Taha Arbaoui, Prof Khaled Hadj-Hamou, Prof Vincent Cheutet, Dr. Masood Fathi, Prof Yasser Dessouky

General Co-Chairs, CIE52 2025

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original articles to CIE52 that are not under review for any other conference or journal at the same time. All submissions should be written in US English with a maximum length of 10 pages (including references and appendix, if any). Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be done through EasyChair. 

List of Topics

The 52nd International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering (CIE52) is organized to disseminate recent theoretical and methodological developments, significant technical applications, case studies and survey results in the area of Computers, Industrial Engineering and other related areas. This edition will be mainly devoted to "Bridging Data-Driven Innovation and Sustainable Practices". 

CIE52 aims to gather researchers to disseminate and discuss state-of-the-art advancements in the areas of industrial engineering, supply chain management, operations management, computer science, manufacturing, management, and other related areas. It will bring together researchers, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and industrial scientists to exchange their research results and experiences about all the related aspects (theory, applications and tools). This is an occasion to form and establish networks, to interact with scientists and invited speakers from all over the world and to attend highly qualified scientific sessions. 

The CIE52 conference will tackle the following topics: 

• Sustainable Supply Chain Management and practices
• Sustainable and Smart Transportation Systems
• Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics
• Energy-aware Industrial Systems
• Quality Control and Management
• Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma
• Reliability Engineering and Predictive Maintenance
• Production Planning and Operations Scheduling
• Resilience of Supply Chains
• Collaboration and cooperation in supply chains
• Facility Planning and Design
• Manufacturing optimization and management
• Warehouse operations management
• Performance evaluation
• Big Data Analytics and Applications
• Data Mining and Business Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning applications
• Smart Manufacturing Systems
• Smart Cities Management
• Knowledge Management
• Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing
• Advanced Process Control
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Industrial Internet of Things
• Digital twins
• Discrete Event and Agent-based Simulation, Simulation-Optimization integration
• Service Innovation and Management
• Health and Safety Engineering and Management
• Healthcare Management Systems
• Humanitarian and Emergency Logistics
• Project Management and Control
• Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• Education practices for sustainable industrial systems
• Education practices for data-driven innovations

Publication

CIE52 proceedings will be published and indexed in Scopus with a dedicated DOI for the proceedings.  Only accepted and presented full papers will be included in the CIE52 proceedings. Accepted abstracts will only be included in the program schedule. In both cases, at least one author must be registered by the early bird registration deadline. 

A selection among presented full papers will be invited to submit an extended version in a special issue of ELSEVIER Computers and Industrial Engineering Journal (ISSN 0360-8352). Some other special issues will be organized and announced on the conference webpage later on. 

Venue

The conference will be will be hosted by the DISP laboratory at INSA Lyon (France) between 29th and 31st October 2025. It will take place at INSA Lyon, LyonTech-La Doua, Villeurbanne, France.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to cie52@listes.insa-lyon.fr.