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NAFEMS 2020
: Call for Papers
NAFEMS, The International Association for the Engineering Analysis
Community, is inviting papers for NAFEMS 2020,
to be held in Hampton, Virginia on October 29-31, 2008. Please
submit your papers early for advanced consideration.
The Issues
Where is engineering analysis and simulation going? Where should
it be going, and how will we all help get it there? What are the
business, technological, and human enablers that will carry the
past successful developments, applications, and business impact of
Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) to higher plateaus during the next
decade and beyond?
The Event
 NAFEMS, the premier global organization dedicated to the
advancement and improvement of engineering simulation, is hosting NAFEMS:2020
in Hampton, Virginia during October 29-31, 2008 to bring together
the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of
CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant
trends and roadmaps, to explore common themes, and to address these
issues in an open forum. The goal is to provide attendees with the
best “food for thought and action” to deploy CAE over
the next several years.
The Topics
A vision of CAE’s potential in 2020 has many facets
associated with maximizing the value of using engineering analysis
and simulation in addressing the ever-increasingly complexity of
products and their life cycles. NAFEMS:2020
will include keynote speakers, exhibits, and breakout sessions
exploring the following subjects:
- Business developments to increase the financial impact of CAE
investments
- Development and deployment of CAE roadmaps
- Management and executive awareness and understanding to make CAE
deployment decisions with enduring positive impact
- Integration of simulation information within Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM)
- Broadening the scope of industries and applications that benefit
from advanced engineering analysis and simulation
- The roles of CAE software and hardware developers
- Technical developments to improve speed, accuracy, reliability,
accessibility, and applicability of results (“the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers
.”)
- High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems for CAE (further synergies
between hardware architectures and software algorithms)
- Capturing the relevant physics well enough to gain engineering
insight through multifunctional and multiphysics simulation
- Material characterization including multiscale material models and
data management; understanding and coping with model limitations,
etc.
- The impact of nanotechnologies on CAE requirements such as
multifunctional “designer” nano-materials
- Timely insight of mushrooming results: visualization, animation,
and immersive virtual reality (“Moore’s Law doesn’t apply to the human brain
”)
- Driving design improvement and optimization from smart simulations
- Real-Time virtual simulations
- Design uncertainty quantifications and non-deterministic
optimization
- Innovative approximation methods and evolutionary optimization
- Human issues
- Intelligent engineering collaboration environments
- Teaching simulation as part of the basic engineering
curricula
- Evolving engineering processes and organizations to leverage CAE
advances
- Certification of engineers to help ensure safe and effective use of
CAE
- Training and education aligned with a 2020 vision
Submission of Abstracts & Presentations
Abstracts of 300-600 words should be submitted for consideration by
June 1st, 2008. Abstracts must be clearly marked with author's
name, organization, address, fax, phone numbers and email address.
If you intend to submit an abstract, please complete the form
below, or contact Matthew Ladzinski
at NAFEMS by calling 1 (704) 248-2628. You may also email your
abstract to: na2008@nafems.org.
Note:
Please be sure to use the abstract template below.
Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to prepare an
extended abstract (typically 1-2 pages) and a PowerPoint
presentation. Full written papers will not
be required.
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