This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 5.5 SOCOLNET Doctoral
Conference on Computing Electrical and Industrial Systems DoCEIS 2015 held in Costa de
Caparica Portugal in April 2015. The 54 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 119 submissions. The papers present selected results produced in engineering
doctoral programs and focus on development and application of cloud-based engineering systems.
Research results and ongoing work are presented illustrated and discussed in the following
areas: collaborative networks cloud-based manufacturing reconfigurable manufacturing
distributed computing and embedded systems perception and signal processing healthcare smart
monitoring systems and renewable energy and energy-related management decision support
simulation and power conversion.
