The 9th annual IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2013), sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), will be held from August 17 to 21, 2013, in Madison, WI, USA. IEEE CASE represents the flagship automation conference of the IEEE RAS and constitutes the primary forum for cross-industry and multidisciplinary research in automation. Its goal is to provide a broad coverage and dissemination of foundational research in automation among researchers, academics, and practitioners. The technical program of IEEE CASE will consist of workshops, invited talks, posters, and presentations. Papers, abstracts, and presentations describing original work on abstractions, algorithms, theories, methodologies, and case studies are invited. For the first time, the IEEE CASE will accept both full papers and presentation abstracts. Accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings. The conference theme is Automation in Practice. The topics include but are not limited to: Foundations of Automation; Agriculture; Life Sciences; Health Care; Automation in Meso, Micro and Nano-scale; Manufacturing Automation; Discrete Event Systems; Scheduling and Optimization; Mechatronics; Industrial Informatics; Sustainable Production; Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Networked and Control Systems; Power and Energy Systems; Smart Buildings; Big Data and Data Mining; Laboratory Automation; and Emerging Topics in Automation. Detailed instructions for the preparation and submission can be found at www.case2013.org.