All interested authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their original conference papers to the following scientific journals special issues after the conference:

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (Sage, ISSN 1045-389X)

The Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures is dedicated to publishing "experimental or theoretical work on any aspect of intelligent materials systems and/or structures research also called smart structure, smart materials, active materials, adaptive structures and adaptive materials". (Source: Journal homepage, journals.sagepub.com/home/jim ). With an impact factor of 2.255 according to the 2016 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2017), it is ranked in the second quartile of its category, Materials Science Multidisciplinary, and thus provides an attractive and thematically fitting frame for SysInt contributions.

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures is included in the most important scientific indices and citation databases, like Scopus and Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuter) Web of Science Core Collection.

Production (ABEPRO, ISSN 0103-6513)

The journal (www.prod.org.br) is the flagship journal of ABEPRO - Brazilian Association of Production Engineering. Production (formerly, Produção) was created in 1990 in order to provide a communication medium for academic articles in the Production Engineering field. Nowadays, the journal is among the top Brazilian journals in Operations, Manufacturing, Industrial and Production Engineering and Management.

For the period 2018-2020, Prof. Dr-.Ing. Enzo Morosini Frazzon (from the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department,the Production Engineering Graduate Program and the Production and Logistics Intelligent Systems - www.ProLogIS.ufsc.br of the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC) will be the Editor-in-chief.

The Production journal is Open Access and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). The journal uses ScholarOne submission platform and is indexed by SCOPUS and several other databases.

For German speaking authors:

Industrie 4.0 Management (Gito, ISSN 2364-9208)

Readers of “Industrie 4.0 Management” can expect a journal for the presence and future of industrial business processes, qualified information about the state of technology, products and practical experience in regard to strategies, organization and utilization of technology in industrial companies. The journal’s target group are decision makers. This is why the articles aim to assist the production and IT management concerning company investments.

The journal will be included in the Scopus index as well.