TMCE 2012 - Ninth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2012

TMCE 2012 ? May 7 -11, 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany (561 days to go)

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It is our pleasure to invite you to the Ninth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TMCE 2012 at Karlsruhe, Germany, May 7 - 11, 2012. The focus of the TMCE 2012 Symposium will be on Mobile and ubiquitous technologies for global product development and production processes. This Symposium will be jointly organized by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

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TMCE 2012 will offer a traditionally high standard professional program, as well as several attractive and entertaining social and cultural events. You are cordially invited to participate in this exciting event with your industrial tutorials, scientific podium and poster papers, or simply as part of the audience. Students are also encouraged and will be supported with special discounts on their registration fees.

The Symposium is offered to product designers, product managers, product, process and environmental engineers, information and knowledge technology managers, engineering technology managers, quality and process engineers, engineering IT suppliers and vendors, academic researchers, technology transfer centers, engineering educators and industrial advisors.

TMCE 2012 will offer a high standard professional program as well as a set of entertaining social functions. The focus of the professional program will be on Mobile and ubiquitous technologies for global product development and production processes. Experience the TMCE traditions together with many more participants from government, academia, and industry. You are cordially invited to propose industrial tutorials and to submit technical papers. You will also have the opportunity for product demonstrations. Participation of students is encouraged and supported with reasonable discounts. As earlier, the Proceedings will be published as hard-cover book and the best papers will be republished in special issues of international journals. The Organizing Committee is going to establish a Symposium-related journal for publication of review, research and application papers. Topics

Support of creativity, complexity and innovation
Multi-sensorial input, visualization and virtual prototyping
Technologies and methods for virtual engineering
Sensor technologies and sensor networks
Transmission and communication technologies
Next generation Internet and ad hoc networking
Interaction with ubiquitous/pervasive products
Designing and validating smart and intelligent products
Emerging issues of ubiquitous engineering in education
New processes for embedded systems and application
Strategic and incremental innovations in social context
Knowledge and information as basis for product innovation
Approaches for virtual and physical unerring system validation
Advances in integrated global and BoP product development
Human aspects of omnipresent product innovation
Industrial application case studies
Language

The official language of the TMCE 2012 Symposium and the Proceedings is English.