International Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacture Announced

By DE Editors

The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacturing (ADM2011) will take place in Kunming, China, Sept. 21-23, 2011. All papers included in ADM2011 conference proceedings will be indexed in EI Compendex and other major abstract media, and the papers presented at the conference will be offered the opportunity for post-conference publications in refereed international journals, subject to extensive revision and paper quality. 

The conference topics will be in the design and manufacturing engineering area, which will cover, but are not limited to:

- Product/industrial/engineering design
- CAD/CAM/CAE
- Concurrent engineering, agile manufacturing, rapid prototyping
- Material science and engineering materials
- Manufacturing technologies, production, control
- Mechanical transmissions
- Engineering management
- Sustainable product design, lifecycle assessment, eco-design, sustainable production and renewable energy
- Web/Internet technologies,
- Experimental and theoretical analyses, finite/boundary element methods, optimization
- Soft computing, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computing, agent computing
- Computer simulation, multimedia, virtual reality
- Creative industries
- Engineering education

The deadline for 200-word abstracts is Feb. 5, 2011. Please submit abstracts and papers to [email protected]. The deadline for full papers is March 25, with a May 25 final deadline for papers.

A registration fee of £460 (sterling pounds) per participant will be charged, which entitles the participant to have one paper published in the conference proceedings; for additional papers from the same authors, the publication fee of £160 per additional paper will be charged. The registration fee will also cover conference banquet, lunches and refreshments, and proceedings, but not accommodation.

For more information, email Professor Daizhong Su at [email protected] or Jose Casamayor at [email protected].

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.