It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2nd International Summer School on Intelligent Agents in Automation, which will be held in Linköping, Sweden, on 9-17th of June 2016. The Summer School is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Industrial Agents, Linköping University (Sweden), Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal), Technical University of Munich (Germany) and the New University of Lisbon (Portugal).

This event is designed to provide advanced training for PhD students and practitioners on the advanced automation technologies that will be the basis for Industry 4.0. In this line, the theme for this edition of the Summer School is “The 4th Industrial Revolution and the Industrial Internet of Things” aiming to promote the discussion on how design, develop and implement the next generation of intelligent production system based on their cyber-physical formulation.