EuropIA 
13
“Connecting Brains Shaping the World => Collaborative Design Spaces”
13th International Conference on Advances in Design Sciences and Technology
8th -10th June 2011
Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Eudossiana 18 – 00184 Rome – Italy
Conference Theme
EuropIA Conferences are organized as a cross-platform for the study and analysis of the application of the ICT to architecture, archaeology, building engineering, civil engineering, urban design and policy analysis.
The aim of EuropIA international conferences is to promote advancements of information and communication technology (ICT) and their effective application for the Building and Construction industry.
The characteristic of these conferences is the interaction of different disciplines regarding their approach, methods and techniques for the application of advanced technologies.
Specifics of disciplines are not the subject of the conference but serve as cases.
Cross-platform discussions and interactions help to enhance scope of these technologies beyond their existing application limits.
We seek a discussion of terms and conditions for introducing new tools and new strategies - required by the inevitable changes of the professional and educational working.
The main theme of the EuropIA 13 is Collaborative Design Spaces.
Industry and the building industry in particular are being stirred up by new design methods, aimed at overcoming the increasing complexity of their respective products. Collaborative Engineering takes pride of place in that it has the potential to enhance the design process through a more effective collaboration between different and widely separated teams of specialists. Its aim is to provide concepts, technologies and innovative solutions.
Collaboration allows for a flexible and adaptable development of the work carried out in networked organizational structures, such that the outcome of the work will be shared and contributed to by a wider range of experts, thus benefiting from and facilitating the spread of innovative methods and ideas within organizations.
Main Topics
Topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to::
- Digital aids to architectural design creativity;
- BIM and the semantics representation;
- IFC and standard representations;
- Multi-agent decision-support systems;
- Design conflicts management;
- Design Theory
- Generative and Parametric Design
- Mass Customization
- User Participation in Design
- Process and product modelling
- Collaborative life cycle management for design and construction
- Sustainable/ green design and construction systems
- Embedded and smart systems for design and construction
- Human-machine interfaces for design and construction
- Data expandability for design and construction
- Ontology knowledge models
The conference will compare the different scientific positions and current results that are emerging in the international field from research on these topics, aimed at enhancing design, namely architectural and building, by means of tools that support the integrated Process/Product design activity in a collaborative space.
Topics should thus be developed with respect to:
- innovative and effective representations of entities and products (in the most general sense possible, buildings, requirements, methods, processes, etc.);
- real-time explanations of the meanings of quantities and qualities involved, and their attendant constraints;
- agents allowing dynamic notations among ‘internal’ representations used by each actor in their own ‘space’ of competence, and ones used to communicate their work to experts in other fields;
- by respecting a high quality of adapted ergonomic human interfaces.
Information for Authors
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in English presenting original research in the above mentioned topics.
All submitted paper will be blind reviewed by the EuropIA 13 program reviewers. All reviewed and accepted papers have to be resubmitted, implementing reviewers and editors comments or suggestions.
All accepted papers will be published in a book by Europia Productions and the proceedings will be distributed to the authors at the Conference; each paper have to be presented and discussed at the Conference, otherwise authors will be required to pay the sum of € 250,00 per each accepted paper for publishing needs.
Please note that the Revised final papers include a completed Copyright Transfer Form and author(s) are responsible for obtaining permission to utilize any copyrighted material (text, photo, drawings, figures, etc.). For more details about this subject, please contact the publisher at an early stage.
Please check the Papers Page for further informations about submissions.
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