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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black">The Editorial Board of the Int J Mechatronics & Manufacturing Systems is organizing a special journal issue.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif">
Please find enclosed a call for papers PDF document. This special issue call for papers website is at:
<a href="https://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=5820">https://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=5820</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black">Subject: Special Issue on: "Artificial Intelligence for Smart Manufacturing and Mechatronics"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black">Guest Editors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Tu</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">ğ</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black">rul
Özel, Rutgers University, U.S.A. Email: ozel@rutgers.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Panagiotis Kyratsis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece, Email: pkyratsis@uowm.gr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black">Assist. Prof. Panorios Benardos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Email: pbenard@mail.ntua.gr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">This special issue aims to bring researchers together about the latest progress in the artificial intelligence for smart manufacturing and mechatronics. We invite
submissions of high-quality research articles related to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques for smart manufacturing,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">mechatronics, and Industry 4.0/5.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">Manuscripts due by: 31 December, 2023
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">Notification to authors: 15 February, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">Final versions due by: 30 March, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">For questions, please contact either of us on the editorial team of the SI. (Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis after the target date)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">The journal IJMMS still publishes open access papers and issues where authors pay the cost of publishing. The IJMMS is offering offer 50% discount for open access
papers accepted and published in the journal to promote open access- US Dollars 1,500 per paper. The IJMMS journal is indexed by Scopus and continue to improve its CiteScore every year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">Kind regards,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">Tu</span><span style="color:#002060">ğ</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#002060">rul Özel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif;color:black">Tuğrul Özel, PhD<br>
Professor, Rutgers University - New Brunswick<br>
Industrial and Systems Engineering<br>
96 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif;color:black">P: 848-445-1099 |
<a href="mailto:ozel@rutgers.edu">ozel@rutgers.edu</a> | Profile: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tugrul-ozel-7243b414/">
LinkedIn</a> | <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-490X">ORCID</a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F8cgw_0AAAAJ&hl=en">
GoogleScholar</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Director, <a href="http://coewww.rutgers.edu/marl/">Manufacturing and Automation Research Lab</a><br>
Editor-in-Chief, <a href="https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmms">Int. J. Mechatronics & Manufacturing Systems</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Tuğrul Özel, PhD<br>
Professor, Rutgers University - New Brunswick<br>
Industrial and Systems Engineering<br>
96 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bahnschrift",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">P: 848-445-1099 |
<a href="mailto:ozel@rutgers.edu"><span style="color:blue">ozel@rutgers.edu</span></a> | Profile:
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tugrul-ozel-7243b414/"><span style="color:blue">LinkedIn</span></a> |
<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-490X"><span style="color:blue">ORCID</span></a> |
<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F8cgw_0AAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="color:blue">GoogleScholar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Director, <a href="http://coewww.rutgers.edu/marl/"><span style="color:blue">Manufacturing and Automation Research Lab</span></a><br>
Editor-in-Chief, <a href="https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmms"><span style="color:blue">Int. J. Mechatronics & Manufacturing Systems</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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