[Logprofs] MIT Engineering Systems Symposium Call for Abstracts

[Dan Roos]

Call for Abstracts for Presentations and Papers

Second International Symposium on Engineering Systems
June 15-17, 2009
MIT

Abstracts are invited on all aspects of engineering systems for 
presentation at the second International Symposium on Engineering 
Systems. The first two days of the symposium will include keynote 
talks by Charles Vest and Norm Augustine, along with plenary sessions 
involving senior representatives from academia, government, industry, 
and the national academies addressing topics including critical 
issues and grand challenges, and global university initiatives.  The 
last of these sessions will introduce some key research methods and 
issues, with invited talks on topics such as system architecture, 
enterprise perspectives, network analysis, computational social 
science, engineering systems design, sustainability, and critical 
infrastructure.

Abstracts are sought via this call for presentations to be held 
during concurrent sessions on the third day.  Emphasis will be on 
both engineering systems approaches/methodologies (e.g. complexity, 
flexibility, uncertainty, emergence, system safety, security, 
sustainability, social/political/economic analysis, etc.), and on 
applications/domains (e.g. transportation, energy, communications, 
aerospace, health care, manufacturing systems, etc.).

Presenters will be chosen based on extended abstracts of up to 750 
words.  The deadline for abstract submission is January 15, 2009.   
Please send these to esdsymposium-abstract at mit.edu, with your last 
name included in the file name.  Responses regarding acceptance of 
the abstracts for presentation should be available by Feb. 15, 2009.

In addition to presenting at the conference, successful abstract 
submitters will have the option of supplementing their presentation 
with a paper for inclusion in conference proceedings.  Accepted 
papers will be posted on the ESD website.  (Papers from the 2004 
symposium can be viewed at: 
http://esd.mit.edu/symposium/agenda_day3.htm.)  Final review papers 
will be due on May 15th, 2009.  The recommended length is 8-10 pages 
excluding references.

For more information about the International Symposium on Engineering 
Systems, please visit http://esd.mit.edu/symp09.

Sincerely,


Daniel Roos
Director, MIT Portugal Program
Founding Director, MIT Engineering Systems Division



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Daniel Roos
Director, MIT Portugal Program at MIT
Japan Steel Industry Professor of
Engineering Systems and
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Rm. E40-221B
Cambridge, MA  02139


Tel: 617/253-1661
Fax: 617/258-7733
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