The Program Committee of the International TMCE 2012 Symposium invites you to submit extended abstracts that report on high quality research work and results in the domain of mobile and ubiquitous technologies for global product development and production processes. The deadline for the submission of extended abstract is 30th April, 2011. A good abstract summarizes the completed research work, the applied research methods and the results of the work, briefly describes the testing and validation of the results, summarizes the main conclusions, and outlines possible future research.

Information on the professional program

TMCE 2012 will offer a high standard professional program as well as a set of entertaining social functions.
TMCE 2012 intends to bring together 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. The Symposium 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. There will be multiple streams of industrial tutorials on Monday, 7th May 2012. The plenary opening session will be on Tuesday morning, 8th May, followed by two keynotes. There will be five parallel sessions for presentation of technical papers, forum talks and technical workshops on each afternoon from 8th to 10th May. Wednesday morning, 9th May, there will be four plenary keynote talks by internationally outstanding experts. There will be three plenary keynote talks on Thursday morning, 10 May, followed by a plenary panel discussion on the current status and future trends of designing and engineering with ubiquitous technologies. In the morning of the last day of the Symposium, there will be a panel discussion on the hot topics of sustainable artifact and service development.

Experience the traditions and high professional quality of the series of TMCE Symposia, together with many more participants from governments, academia, and industry. You are cordially invited to propose industrial tutorials, forum talks, technical workshops, and to submit technical papers. You will also have the opportunity for product demonstrations. Participation of students is encouraged and supported with reasonable discounts. A digital Proceedings will be published and the best papers will be republished in international journals. Efforts are being made to establish a Symposium-related open access journal, which is going to offer a new form of publication for survey, research and application papers.

The non exhaustive list below gives a concise overview of the professional topics of the Symposium:

    * 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

Important deadlines

The paper submission, peer reviewing and revision process will be organized according to the following scenario:

30 April, 2011     Submission of extended abstracts
30 August, 2011     Submission of full papers
20 November, 2011     Submission of revised papers
7-11 May, 2012     TMCE 2012 Symposium

Contact: info@tmce.org