Jeffrey Wermann Editor

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armando Walter Colombo (Fellow IEEE) joined the Department of Electrotechnical and Industrial Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Emden-Leer, Germany, became Full Professor in August 2010 and Director of the Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics (I2AR) in 2012. He worked during the last 17 years as Manager for Collaborative Projects and also as Edison Level 2 Group Senior Expert at Schneider Electric, Industrial Business Unit.

Dr. Michael Gepp is working as a technical consultant at Siemens Corporate Technology, Research Group on Systems Engineering – Engineering Methods and Tools.

Jose Barata Oliveira is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the New University of Lisbon and a senior researcher of the UNINOVA Institute.

Paulo Leitão is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal.

Jose Barbosa is a senior researcher at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal. He is also an invited professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança.

Jeffrey Wermann a scientific assistant and a member of the institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics (I²AR). Mr. Wermann is also performing graduated and post-graduated teaching activities as Invited Lecturer in the courses of the Master on Industrial Informatics, specialization "Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems" of the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer in Germany.