Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research or innovative practical applications in areas including, but not limited to: Industrial networks and applications New architectures, protocols and applications for industrial networks, including control network, communication network, sensor network, body area network, social network, opportunistic network, and cloud-based network Analysis of industrial networks, including network lifetime, scalability and stability, transmission reliability, quality of service, security, etc. Intelligent systems and applications Computational intelligence in automation, including neural, fuzzy and evolutionary approaches, ant colonies optimization, swarm intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, expert systems, multi‐agent systems, game and decision theories, etc. Industrial applications of intelligent systems Information processing and data analysis Audio/image/video processing Data mining, pattern recognition, estimation and identification Information fusion, compressive sensing, signal transforming and filtering Fault detection and diagnosis Optimization techniques Big data analysis and processing Hardware and software design and development Analogue/Digital system design and structures Design and analysis of embedded industrial systems, including real-time computing, operating systems, communications, etc. Modelling and analysis tools for industrial networks and intelligent systems Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems