ADAPTIVE COMPUTING IN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE - 2006

POSTER CALL AND SUBMISSION

The intention is to further explore the integration of evolutionary search, exploration and optimisation and associated Computational Intelligence (CI) technologies (e.g. neural computing, intelligent agent systems, fuzzy logic etc) across a wide spectrum of design and manufacturing activities. 

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In order to encourage student poster submission, funding is available for PhD Students presenting posters at the Conference. Students having Poster submissions accepted and who are not presenting papers in the main sessions can therefore register at a much reduced rate of £60.00.  This will cover meals and refreshments during the three days of the Conference plus one copy of the Conference and Poster Proceedings.

Some support may also be available upon request for those students presenting Posters in terms of travel and accommodation.

This support is possible due to funding provided by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council.

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Areas of interest include but are not restricted to:
- the development and integration of appropriate evolutionary and adaptive computing strategies with conceptual, embodiment and detailed design;

- novel application of evolutionary and computational intelligence strategies to (or integration with) complex manufacturing systems;

- resource scheduling and planning; facility layout; supply chain design and management; business organisational design;

- evolutionary in-silico drug discovery processes, reagent library search, de novo molecule design;

- evolutionary software design systems;

- co-operative frameworks supporting the utilisation of evolutionary search and other CI technologies within a design / manufacturing environment.

- the application of novel evolutionary computing techniques and strategies that address specific design / analysis problems of high complexity.

- evolutionary and CI strategies for component modelling and systems identification.

- conceptual design search and exploration; human-centred aspects and interactive evolutionary decision-support systems.

- modelling of and searching across, uncertain / poorly-defined decision-making environments.

- multi-objective satisfaction and optimisation.

- search and optimisation within heavily constrained domains.

- Web / Grid-based evolutionary tools for design and manufacture - accessibility and utility; provision of multi-disciplinary search and optimisation requirements within distributed Problem Solving Environments (PSEs).

- reducing computational expense during detailed design, analysis and optimisation.

- best practice re integration with high-performance computing, parallel architectures etc

- supporting innovative and creative design .

- data mining; the identification of optimal design information; appropriate presentation of data generated from evolutionary search, exploration and optimisation.

- evolvable hardware design.

- robotics and control.

Applied, theoretical, results-oriented and speculative papers from both academe and industry will all be considered for inclusion. 

SUBMISSION

Poster submissions must be original and related to the overall subject area
of the Conference. Extended poster abstracts should be no longer than two pages
(A4) at 10pt Times New Roman typeface. Please include author's names,
addresses (email included) and affiliation. Margins of 20mm should be
maintained all round but overall format is flexible in the first instance.
All preliminary abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf or
MS Word format.  Accepted poster abstracts will receive a layout guide for the
preparation of final camera-ready papers.

All extended abstracts will be reviewed and papers developed from those selected for poster presentation will be published a Proceedings. All authors will have the opportunity to present their posters on the afternoon of the 26th April '06.

Important dates:

20th February 2006:                    Submission of poster abstracts
1st  March 2006:                         Notification of acceptance
10th March 2006:                       Camera-ready copy required

Papers should be emailed as zipped attachments directly to ian.parmee@uwe.ac.uk. Please give contact details of the corresponding author. You should receive an acknowledgement mail within 48 hours of receipt. If you do not receive this acknowledgement please inform Ian Parmee asap.

POSTER FORMAT

Display board space to accommodate 2 x A1 Posters will be provided for each presenter during the Poster Session which will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday, 26th April.  Apart from overall size, there is no fixed format for Poster content.