This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 5.5 SOCOLNET Advanced
Doctoral Conference on Computing Electrical and Industrial Systems DoCEIS 2017 held in Costa
de Caparica Portugal in May 2017. The 46 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 95 submissions. The papers present selected results produced in engineering
doctoral programs and focus on technological innovation for smart systems. Research results and
ongoing work are presented illustrated and discussed in the following areas: collaborative
networks computational intelligence systems analysis smart manufacturing systems smart
sensorial systems embedded and real time systems energy: management energy: optimization
distributed infrastructure solar energy electrical machines power electronics and
electronics.
