Title: Industry 4.0: history, challenges and chances!

Nasser Jazdi received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1997, his Ph.D. (Topic: Remote Diagnosis and Maintenance of Embedded Systems) in 2003 from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. In 2003 he joined the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering (IAS), University of Stuttgart as deputy head, researcher and lecturer. He gives two lectures: “Software Engineering” and “Reliability and Security of Automation Systems”.

His research interests are in software reliability in the context of IoT, learning aptitude for industrial automation, and artificial intelligence in industrial automation. He is an IEEE senior member, a member of the VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies, a member of VDI-GPP Software Reliability Group and a member of the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC). In 2009 he worked for two months as invited researcher with Prof. Zadeh at Berkeley University of California.

Dr. Jazdi is the deputy head of the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart.

Dr. Adilson E. Motter is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty in March 2006, he held positions as Guest Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany, and as Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2002 from UNICAMP, Brazil, where he worked with Prof. Patricio S. Letelier. Recent awards received by Professor Motter include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Weinberg Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, the Northwestern-Argonne Early Career Investigator Award for Energy Research, a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the Erdös-Rényi Prize in Network Science, and a Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. He has been featured among the 30 promising scientists under the age of 40 born in Latin America identified by the Chilean magazine Qué Pasa and the international organization LatinAmericanScience.org, and selected Outstanding Referee of the APS. Professor Motter is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Professor Motter’s research is focused on the dynamical behavior of complex systems and networks. This research is inherently interdisciplinary and has over the years benefited from Professor Motter’s affiliations with various programs in addition to his home Department of Physics and Astronomy. His current affiliations include the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP), Molecular Biophysics Program, Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PSOC), Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN), Graduate Program in Applied Physics, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). Professor Motter currently serves as Editor of CHAOS (American Institute of Physics) and Editorial Board Member of Nonlinearity (Institute of Physics). He is also an Advisory Committee Member of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, and the Chair-Elect of the APS Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics (GSNP).

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Dr. Liu Hsu has obtained BS and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) in 1968) 1971, respectively, and his DSc degree from the University de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier) (1974). He has been with COPPE-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro since 1975, where he is Full Professor. His teaching and research activities are focused in the field of Automation, Control and Robotics, mainly in adaptive control, non-linear systems, feedback control, variable structure control, sliding-modes control, robot control mobile robots, submarine robotics, among other. He is a member of the Brazilian Science Academy and Grã Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico. He is also a member of the Brazilian Engineering Academy since 2015.

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Dr. Antonella Ferrara Antonella Ferrara was born in Genova, Italy, in 1963. As a student at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genova, she got the IEEE North Italy Section Electrical Engineering Student Award in 1986. She received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering (cum Laude) in 1987 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electronics in 1992 from the University of Genova. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences of the University of Genova (1992-1998). In November 1998 she became Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pavia. Since January 2005 she is Full Professor of Automatic Control, first in the Department of Computer Engineering and Systems Science of the University of Pavia (2005-2011), and then in the newborn Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (ECBE) of the same university. At the University of Pavia, she teaches "Process Control and Robotics and Advanced Automation and Control (both in English) in the Master Degree Programs in Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation Engineering. She also teaches Control of
Vehicle Dynamic (in English) in the Post-Bachelor Program on Design and Development of Vehicle Dynamics. She is frequently invited to give lectures in International Schools for Ph.D.
students. She was Visiting Professor at Graz University of Technology, and Invited Lecturer at Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Delft, INRIA Grenoble, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, and Hanyang University, Seoul. Her research activities are mainly in the area of advanced automatic control of complex systems, with application to mechanical systems, automotive control, robotics, power systems control, process control, and vehicular traffic control. She is particularly interested in autonomous driving and vehicle navigation, relying on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) strategies. She was and still is a coordinator and member of several research units in national and European research projects. In particular, she was the UNIPV coordinator in the PRIN project Control of Advanced Transmission, Suspension, Steering and Braking Systems for the Management of Vehicle Dynamics (2006-2007), and in the European Project PROTECTOR (Preventive safety for un-protected road user) ended in 2003. At present, she is coordinator of the Italian research team in the European Projects ITEAM (Interdisciplinary Training Network in Multi-Actuated Ground Vehicles, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action) started on January 1st, 2016. She was scientific leader of several research projects funded or co-funded by companies.
She has authored or co-authored more than 360 scientific papers, with 110 international journal papers and 3 scientific books. Moreover, she contributed, with invited chapters, to 23 edited books. From 2000 to 2004 she was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control

Systems Technology. From 2007 to 2012 she was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Since January 2014, she has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. Since 2017, she has been Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Since 2018 she has been Associated Editor of Automatica. She was and currently is member of the International Program Committee of several international conferences and events. She was Program Vice-Chair of the European Control Conference ECC14 held in Strasbourg, France, and Program Vice-Chair of the 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation Med14 held in Palermo, Italy. She is Editor of the IFAC
Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems CTS 2018 to be held in Savona, Italy, Publication Chair for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2019 to be held in Nice, France, and Editor of the European Control Conference ECC19 to be held in Naples, Italy. She is Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control, member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Automotive Control and member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems.
She was "appointed member" of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for year 2012. She was Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society (July 2013-December 2016) and, at present, she is member of the Advisory Board of that committee. She is "elected member" of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the the triennium 2016-2018. Since July 2015 she has been serving as Member of the European Control Association (EUCA) Council. Starting from June 2018 she will be Series Editor of the book series "Advances in Industrial Control" published by Springer.
Since 2017 she is also member of the "Consiglio Scientifico del Working Group Trasporti of the CNR Foresight Project, and member of IEEE Control System Society Outreach Task Force.

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Title: Alice no país do espelho: vendo eventos na dinâmica dos sistemas de potência

Dr. Vladimiro Miranda graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1977 and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from FEUP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1982. He holds currently the following positions: 1. Full Professor (Professor Catedrático) at FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal. 2. Director/Member of the Board of INESC TEC, an R&D private non-profit organization recognized as Associate Laboratory by the Ministry of Science and with the University of Porto as the main associate. 3. Director-President of INESC P&D Brasil, an R&D private non-profit organization with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil. He is also International Advisor for different Universities including IIT, Instituto de Investigaciones Tecnológicas, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain – IEE, Instituto de Energía Eléctrica, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina – PolyU, Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Hong Kong, China. In 1996 and 1997 he stayed as Visiting Full Professor in the University of Macau, China. At the same time, he was appointed President of the Board of INESC Macau, a joint Portuguese-Chinese R&D institute. Upon returning to Portugal, he became President of the Scientific Council of INESC Porto in 1998 and Director/Member of the Board of INESC Porto, since 2000 to the present day. In 2005 he was again Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil. Prof. Miranda has been serving in the Administration Board of spin-off companies created within the INESC system. He
has also served as research project evaluator for the governmental science organizations of Portugal, Norway, Croatia, Brazil, South Africa, Chile and Argentina. He has been responsible for many research projects at international level, in the European Union, United States and Brazil, and has authored or co-authored publications, especially in areas related with the application of Computational Intelligence to Power Systems. Prof. Miranda is an IEEE Fellow.

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