[Logprofs] Engineering Systems call for abstracts - due Jan. 15

[Renee Robins]

Please share this announcement with colleagues.
The preliminary program for Days 1&2 should be posted on the website  
by the end of the week.  http://esd.mit.edu/symp09
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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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Renee J. Robins
Director of Special Projects, Technology and Policy Program
Director of Program Integration, MIT-Portugal Program
MIT Engineering Systems Division
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E40-381
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617) 253-7662  (tel)        (617) 452-2599  (fax)      
rrobins at mit.edu (email)
http://tppserver.mit.edu
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