Our Goal
The goal of this TC is to provide a platform for researchers and industrial experts to share their experiences and ideas related to the next generation of intelligent, plug-and-play, cyber-physical industrial systems. The transformation of traditional monolithic, hierarchical and centralized legacy control and data acquisition systems is supported by the latest initiatives and technologies such as Industry 4.0, cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things (IoT), big data and internet of services.
This TC aims at concentrating the knowledge related to the research and application of these new cybernetic methods into various industrial sectors, including production control systems, smart grids and smart cities, water/waste water treatment, transportation, and others. The TC especially encourages validation of developed solutions on physical demonstrators, either in laboratory or real industrial environments.
For further information please visit the TC website at https://sites.google.com/view/ieee-smc-tc-iis/.
Join Us
The TC provides a platform for networking of researchers and professionals in the field of intelligent industrial systems and welcomes anyone interested to join. The networking activities will be supported by joint organization of special sessions at conferences sponsored by the SMC Society, joint collaborations on scientific papers and by seeking for opportunities to collaborate on common projects. To join, please contact the TC Chairs.
TC Leadership


About This TC
- Technical support to 4th International Workshop on Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES 2026), March 23-25, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2026 (https://www.osmses2026.kit.edu/)
- Special Session on Intelligent Industrial Environments and Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2025), October 5-8, Vienna, Austria, 2025 (https://ieeesmc2025.org)
- Technical support to 11th International Summer School on Industrial Agents (ISSIA 2025), June 30-July 4, Ancona, Italy, 2025 (https://www.issia2025.org)
- Technical support to 1st 4days of Eclipse 4diac Winter School, February 10-14, Linz, Austria, 2025 (https://eclipse.dev/4diac/events/4diacwinterschool/)
- Tutorial “Approaches, Methods, and Tools for the Engineering and Validation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems”, H2020 ERIGrid 2.0 and FFG PowerTeams projects, held at IEEE SMC 2024, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2024 (https://ieeesmc2024.org)
- Special Session on Intelligent Industrial Environments and Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2024), October 6-10, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2024 (https://ieeesmc2024.org)
- Technical support to 3rd International Workshop on Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES 2025), September 3-5, Vienna, Austria, 2024 (https://www.osmses2024.org/osmses-2024)
- Technical support to 10th International Summer School on Industrial Agents (ISSIA 2024), June 24-28, Bilbao, Spain, 2024 (https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/isa/issia-2024)
- Special Session on Intelligent Industrial Environments and Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2023), October 1-4, Oahu, Hawaii, USA, 2023 (https://ieeesmc2023.org)
- Technical support to 9th International Summer School on Industrial Agents (ISSIA 2023), June 26-30, Valenciennes, France, 2023 (https://issia-23.sciencesconf.org)
- Tutorial “Designing and Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems”, H2020 ERIGrid 2.0 project, held at IEEE SMC 2023, Oahu, Hawaii, USA, 2023 (https://ieeesmc2023.org)
- Tutorial “Synthesizing Convergent Engineering Systems – A Hetero-functional Graph Theory Tutorial”, held at IEEE SMC 2023, Oahu, Hawaii, USA, 2023 (https://ieeesmc2023.org)
- Tutorial “Validating Smart Energy Systems”, H2020 ERIGrid 2.0 project, held at IEEE SMC 2022, Prague, Czech Republic, 2022 (https://ieeesmc2022.org)
- Technical support to 2nd International Workshop on Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES 2023), March 27-29, Aachen, Germany, 2023
- Technical support to 8th International Summer School on Industrial Agents (ISSIA 2022), July 11-15, Hamburg, Germany, 2022 (https://www.hsu-hh.de/aut/issia-2022)
- Technical support to 1st International Workshop on Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES 2022), April 4-5, Aachen, Germany, 2022
- C. Sing Lai, T. Strasser, L. Lei Lai, “Editorial to the Special Issue on Smart Cities Based on the Efforts of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society,” IEEE Transactions On Systems, Man, And Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 52, Iss. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 2-6. (https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2021.3128990)
- Technical support to 7th International Summer School on Industrial Agents (ISSIA 2021), June 21 – 25, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021 (https://rics.uninova.pt/issia2021/)
- Technical support to 2021 IEEE International Forum on Smart Grids for Smart Cities (SG4SC), Virtual Conference, March 17-23, 2021 (http://www.ieeesg4sc.org/)
- R. Kumar, T.I. Strasser, G. Deconinck, C.S. Lai, L.L. Lai, “Special Issue on Recent Advances for Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Vol. 51, Iss. 4, Apr. 2021, pp. 2036-2040. (https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2021.3060327)
- Technical support to 6th International Summer School on Industrial Agents (ISSIA 2020), June 28 – July 3, Warwick, UK, 2020
- Technical support to 11th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), April 22-24, Slovakia, 2020
- Technical support to 4days of 4diac hackathon, November 11-14, 2019
- Technical support to Sci4all/European Researchers Night 2019, September 27, Vienna, Austria, 2019
- TC meeting during HoloMAS 2019, August 27, Linz, Austria, 2019
- Webinar “Structural Resilience of the Electric Power Grid: Model & Measures” (recording, presentation), August 22, 2019
- Technical support to International Summer School on Intelligent Agents in Automation (ISSIA 2019), July 1-5, Braganca, Portugal, 2019
- Technical support to 9th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (HoloMAS 2019), August 26-27, Linz, Austria, 2019
- Webinar “Co-simulation based assessment methods” (recording, presentation, April 9, 2019)
- Book “A Hetero-functional Graph Theory for Modeling Interdependent Smart City Infrastructure” by Wester C.H. Schoonenberg, Inas S. Khayal, Amro M. Farid, 2019
- Book “eIoT: The Development of Internet of Things Applications in Energy Infrastructure” by Steffi O. Muhanji, Alision E. Flint, Amro M. Farid, 2019
- Tutorial “Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Validating Cyber-Physical Energy Systems”, Thomas Strasser, IEEE SMC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018
- Webinar “ICT standards for smart grids” (recording, presentation), March 23, 2018
- Organization of “Tech session 6A: Living Labs and Hardware test facilities” at IEEE SG4SC 2018, November 26-28, Genk, Belgium, 2018
- Technical support to 8th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (HoloMAS 2017), August 28-30, Lyon, France, 2017
- Technical support to 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF-2017), June 21-23, Exeter, UK, 2017
- Distinguished lecture with title “Stable Matching-Based Selection in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization” at University of Oxford provided by Prof. Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong, December 6, 2016
- Technical support to 6th Workshop on Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing (SOHOMA 2016), October 6-7, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
- Technical support to International Summer School on Intelligent Agents in Automation (ISSIAA 2016), June 9-17, Linkoping, Sweden, 2016
- Technical support to 7th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (HoloMAS 2015), September 2-4, Valencia, Spain, 2015
- TC meeting, September 3, 2015, Valencia during the HoloMAS 2015 conference
- Technical support to International Summer School on Intelligent Agents in Automation (ISSIAA 2015), July 27-30, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
- Edited book “Distributed Control Applications: Guidelines, Design Patterns, and Application Examples with the IEC 61499”, by Alois Zoitl, Thomas Strasser, 2015
- Edited book “Industrial Agents: Emerging Applications of Software Agents in Industry”, by Paulo Leitao, Stamatis Karnouskos, 2015
- Technical support to IEEE P2660.1 – Recommended Practices on Industrial Agents: Integration of Software Agents and Low Level Automation Functions
- Sofiène Affes Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada
- Jose Barata University of Lisbon, Portugal
- José Barbosa Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
- Jan Bezdicek Rockwell Automation, Czech Republic
- Robert Brennan University of Clagary, Canada
- J. Cecil Oklahoma State University, USA
- Armando Walter Colombo University of Applied Sciences Emden-Leer, Germany
- William Dai Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Juan Antonio Lloret Egea Los Estados de la Inteligencia Artificia, Spain
- Adriano Ferreira Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
- Pedro Ferreira Loughborough University, UK
- Adriana Giret Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Ken Hall Rockwell Automation, USA
- David Hästbacka Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Carlos Insaurralde University of the West of England, UK
- Petr Kadera Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar University of Nottingham, United Kingdoma
- Stamatis Karnouskos SAP, Germany
- Anna M. Kosek TNO, The Netherlands
- Jose Kurian Manooparambil Pilz GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
- Chun Sing Lai University of Leeds, UK
- Loi Lei Lai Guangdong University of Technology, China
- Sebastian Lehnhoff OFFIS, Germany
- Paulo Leitão Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
- Wilfried Lepuschitz Practical Robotics Institute Austria, Austria
- Niels Lohse Loughborough University, UK
- Vladimír Marík Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Duncan McFarlane University of Cambridge, UK
- Munir Merdan Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Austria
- Peter Palensky TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Luis Ribeiro Linköping University, Sweden
- Andre Dionisio Rocha NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Nelson Rodrigues DTx: Digital Transformation Colab, Portugal
- Sebastian Rohjans Jade University of Applied Sciences
- Rosaldo Rossetti University of Porto, Portugal
- Petr Skobelev Multi-Agent Technology, Ltd, UK
- Pavel Tichy Rockwell Automation, Czech Republic
- Damien Trentesaux University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis, France
- Mathias Uslar OFFIS, Germany
- Valeriy Vyatkin Alto University, Finland & Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
- Alois Zoitl Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria


