DoCEIS 2024 Hailed a Success
Congratulations to the team behind the 15th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS). The event, which ran from 3-5 July in Caparica, Portugal, was a great success!
This year’s conference focused on “Technological Innovation for Human-Centric Systems”. The goal was to discuss how PhD research can contribute to human-machine collaboration and societal well-being, in alignment with the challenges of Industry 5.0 / Society 5.0. We are witnessing an era of rapid technological advancement, where dreams of the past are swiftly becoming reality. The term “exponential technologies” has been introduced to represent such fast evolution. The convergence of those fast-evolving technologies triggered Industry 4.0 and mostly what we now call digital transformation. Among all those technologies, AI developments led to a big hype, sometimes with overstated expectations. While Industry 4.0, very popular in the last decade, was sometimes too technology-centric, in recent years there is a growing awareness that technology is not all that matters.
This year’s DoCEIS aimed to cultivate a multidisciplinary discourse and establish collaborative avenues for early-career researchers. Participants were thus encouraged to look beyond the boundaries of their focused technical research questions and explore how their work could enrich, or be enriched by, a human-centric perspective.
Sponsored by IFIP WG 5.5, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and SOCOLNET, the event attracted over 80 participants. Proceedings are published by Spinger in the Advances in Information and Communications Technology series.
In conjunction with DoCEIS 2024, there was a one-day Young Engineers Forum on Electrical and Computer Engineering (YEF-ECE 2024). This forum focused on early career engineers and MSc thesis works, with proceedings published by IEEE Xplore. The combined events featured discussions on 25 papers from DoCEIS and 21 from YEF-ECE, submitted by authors from 17 countries. The conference also included significant keynotes on emerging skill requirements, cognitive control in collaborative cyber-physical systems, and cyber-security and cyber-resilience. Additionally, there was a tutorial on creativity and innovation in the digital era, a panel on how Artificial Intelligence is shaping our lives, and a discussion with industry representatives on what companies seek in PhD candidates.
For more information, visit https://doceis.dee.fct.unl.pt/
Conference chair: Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, NOVA University Lisbon, Center of Technology and Systems (CTS), Portugal.