INFORMATIVO ABCM Nº 51/09 – ICAS 2010

27th ICAS CONGRESS – Nice, France
19 – 24 September 2010

www.icas.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

The challenges facing aeronautics have changed and are continuing to change. Today, a difficult global economic situation combined with growing concerns over climate change is increasing political awareness of aviation and is setting the research agenda for the next decade. It has never been more important for the benefits of aviation to be communicated to politicians, decision makers, leaders of industry and the general public.

The international aviation system is a primary enabler for global wealth creation with some of the world’s poorest counties being amongst the greatest beneficiaries. Aviation creates new markets and broadens access to existing markets. In addition, air travel promotes international awareness, understanding and tolerance and it improves the quality of life for millions of people. However, aviation is currently one of the sources of the pollution that is producing climate change. Therefore, in order to guarantee that the benefits of air travel can be fully exploited by society and that aviation can grow, without limitation, to deliver increased global wealth creation, practical solutions to a number of central problems are needed. Amongst these are improvements in aviation safety and security, reductions in noise and emissions and increases in airspace and airport capacity. The design, development and manufacture of an aircraft and its systems requires complex, multidisciplinary process optimization, involving a worldwide supply chain. These problems are arguably the greatest yet faced by the aeronautics and aviation communities and the solutions will require the generation of radical ideas.

To be able to respond to these challenges, the aerospace and aviation industries must attract the most able engineers and scientists in the face of increasingly strong competition from other industries. These people must be motivated, trained and educated. However, to be most effective, they must be exposed to the international issues and to the views and ideas of the international aeronautics community.

In an intensely competitive world facing differential resource scarcities, international collaboration becomes increasingly important. The ICAS Congress provides a unique forum for scientists and engineers, researchers and designers, manufacturers and managers and university faculty and students from all over the world to meet, to learn, to debate, to share ideas and technical information and to build those relationships that are critically important to the advancement of our profession and our industry.

In light of their increasing importance, in addition to our regular topics, we are particularly interested in receiving contributions in the following areas:

• Environmental issues
• Safety and security
• Air transport system efficiency and
• Aircraft design, systems and systems integration

As a guide to authors, the list of ICAS 2010 topic headings is appended. However, this list should not be regarded as exhaustive and papers from other relevant areas are welcome.

Authors are invited to provide an abstract for a potential paper before 31 July 2009

Congress Programme

The ICAS Programme Committee will assemble a Congress programme containing a number of parallel sessions and poster exhibitions. Student presentations (see page 4) will be embedded in the technical sessions. Based upon the experience of previous Congresses, the final programme is expected to contain over 400 oral presentations. In addition, there will be a number of high quality, invited lectures on topics of particular importance and general interest in the technical sessions. A number of “General Lectures” on subjects of major importance, delivered by leading experts, will be included in the morning and afternoon plenary sessions.

Congress Proceedings

All papers accepted for presentation (oral, standby and poster) will be included in the CD-ROM.

Congress venue

The 27th Congress will be held in Nice, France. The host and local organizer is the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France (3AF) –- the ICAS Member Society in France. More information about the venue and the logistic arrangements is given on page 6. We look forward to receiving your abstract and to welcoming you in Nice for ICAS 2010.

Ian Poll
President

Detlef Müller-Wiesner
Chairman Programme Committee

Please submit your abstract online at ICAS website www.icas.org before 31 July 2009.

(Opening of the Website to submit abstracts will take place in May 2009)

Authors are invited to pay careful attention to the presentation and content of their abstract. Knowing that there are more candidates than possible presentations, paper selection for the ICAS Congress is done based on the quality of the abstract only. Some important criteria for the abstract to be selected are scientific/technical relevance, importance to the field and actuality.

Abstract review by Member Societies

The abstracts will be made available to the national Member Societies by the ICAS Secretariat for screening and evaluation and the Member Societies will be asked to submit their recommendations (“not supported, supported, strongly supported”) to the ICAS Programme Committee for final evaluation and selection.

NOTE: If there is no national ICAS Member Society in the country, the abstracts will be evaluated only by the ICAS Programme Committee.

The authors will be informed about the acceptance or not of their paper in November 2009. Full papers should be delivered by 15 June 2010 for inclusion in the CD-Rom proceedings.

For Further information please check the websites below or contact:

ICAS Secretariat
c/o FOI
SE-16490 Stockholm
Sweden
E-Mail: secr.exec@icas.org
Web: www.icas.org

3AF Executive Secretaria
6, rue Galilée
75016 Paris
France
E-mail: lisa.gabaldi@aaaf.asso.fr
Web: www.icas2010.com