INFORMATIVO ABCM Nº 152/08 – CSC2009 e CC2009

The First International Conferenceon Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
and
The Twelfth International Conferenceon Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
1-4 September 2009
http://www.civil-comp.com/conf/csc09.htm

You are invited to submit a 1000 words abstract for presentation in a special session on:

Methods for Generating Response Surfaces
organised by

Prof. George S. Dulikravich, Florida International University, USA (dulikrav@fiu.edu) and
Prof. Marcelo J. Colaco, Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil (colaco@ime.eb.br)

Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts (up to 1,000 words) of proposed papers should be submitted as soon as possible electronically to one of the coorganizers of this session not later than November 15, 2008. The conference has a strict “No Paper – No Podium” rule (i.e. conference presentations can only be made if they have a corresponding accepted paper in the proceedings). Only TWO contributed papers will be allowed for each conference participant. If you wish to submit more than two papers, you must register a co-author.

Abstract submission	15 November 2008
Full paper deadline	as advised by the editor in your abstract acceptance email
Last day for author registrations	1 July 2009
Programme is released	1 September 2009
The conference	1-4 September 2009

As with past conferences we propose to produce conference proceedings for the first day of the conference. After the conference, we shall undertake an extended review of revised and extended contributed papers for possible publication in special issues of the journals (published by Elsevier Science): Computers & Structures and Advances in Engineering Software. Details of these journals can be found on the Elsevier website.

	Registration form received and fees paid
	before 1/5 2009	1/5-1/7 2009	after 1/7 2009
student	375 UK Pounds	425 UK Pounds	All students must register and pay the conference fee before 1/7
author (non-student)	400 UK Pounds	450 UK Pounds	All authors must register and pay the conference fee before 1/7
non-author	450 UK Pounds	500 UK Pounds	575 UK Pounds
special package	650 UK Pounds	750 UK Pounds	not available after 1/7

The conference registration fees include: attendance to sessions of both CC2009 and CSC2009
the full Civil-Comp Press / Saxe-Coburg Publications Conference Proceedings Package
welcome drinks reception on 1/9
morning coffee, afternoon tea on 2/9, 3/9 and 4/9
buffet lunches on 2/9, 3/9 and 4/9

Sincerely,

George S. Dulikravich, Ph.D., FASME, FAAM
Professor and Chairman
Department of Mechanical and Materials Eng.
Florida International University
10555 West Flagler St., EC 3474
Miami, Florida 33174
+1 (305) 348-7016 phone
+1 (305) 348-6007 FAX
dulikrav@fiu.edu
http://www.eng.fiu.edu/mme/
http://maidroc.fiu.edu
http://maidroc.fiu.edu/index_arquivos/ resume/GeorgeSDulikravich.pdf
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17415977.asp
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