CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

In the present era, manufacturing industry is the backbone of the economy of a nation. Due to globalization, there is a stiff competition in this industry for producing the quality products with reduced cost. There is a strong motivation for optimizing the manufacturing process using computational techniques for modeling the processes. Many a times, the processes are simulated before the actual production starts. The present conference focuses on the latest developments in the field of computational methods applied to manufacturing. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity to share and disseminate knowledge in latest hard and soft computing methods that may be applied in the modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes. The major focus will be on industrial application of academic knowledge. In addition to contributory papers, the conference aims at inviting renowned experts for delivering keynote addresses/special lectures in the field of computational methods applied to manufacturing.

The conference keywords include but not limited to:

Modeling of manufacturing processes
Modeling of micro and nano manufacturing
Simulation of manufacturing processes
Computations for materials and manufacturing
Finite element methods
Neural networks
Fuzzy logic
Optimization methods
Genetic algorithm
Cellular automata
Numerical analysis and prediction
Process modeling and simulation
Expert systems
Soft computing
CAD, CAM, CIM

The major theme of the conference is on the application of computation methods to manufacturing.

The conference venue is Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, IITG in abbreviated form. The campus of IITG is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot of land on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra around 20 kilometers from the heart of the city. With the majestic Brahmaputra on one side, and with hills and vast open spaces on otherside, the campus provides an ideal setting for learning. The institute has all required facilities like health center, students' hostels, faculty and staff quarters, guest house, library, computer center, sports facilities, canteens etc. There are few good hospitals in Guwahati city that are located at about 20 kilometers from the institute. The Guwahati city is well connected to all major cities like Chennai, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and other metro cities through air, road, and rail. The institute is located at about 15 kilometers from airport and railway station. The weather is generally cold in December reaching 5-10°C during night time. It is worth visiting tourist places like Shillong, Cherrapunji while visiting Guwahati.

It is proposed to make available the proceedings of the conference in print and CD forms. All accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Selected papers after review will be published in Journal of Machining and Forming Technologies, Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technology, Journal of Mechatronics and Intelligent Manufacturing. It is also planned to bring out an attractive souvenir that will include the abstracts of all papers and would be a valuable reference. The souvenir will include advertisements also. Tariff for advertisement in the souvenir:

Outside back cover : Rs.50000/- (Indian), USD 1500 (Overseas)
Inside cover page : Rs.40000/- (Indian), USD 1200 (Overseas)
Full page : Rs.30000/- (Indian), USD 1000 (Overseas)
Half page : Rs.15000/- (Indian), USD 500 (Overseas)

Please note that organizing committee may refuse to publish an advertisement, if it is felt that it is not in the public interest.

SPONSORSHIP

Organizations are requested to sponsor this conference by contributing Rs.20000/-and above. The contribution will be acknowledged at suitable places.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION

The registration fee will be Rs.5000/- for Indian and USD 500 for foreign delegates. At least one author of the accepted paper has to register for presentation. The participants have to arrange for accommodation and food on their own. A special conference dinner will be arranged for the participants. About 30 rooms will be available in guest house and 100 in hostels. The rooms booking will be based on first-cum first-serve basis.

Patron : Dr. Gautam Barua, Director IIT Guwahati
Chairman: Dr. Debabrata Chakraborty, Head Dept. of Mechanical Engineering IIT Guwahati
Organizing Secretary: Dr. Uday S. Dixit, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering IIT Guwahati
Joint Organizing Secretary: Dr. R. Ganesh Narayanan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering IIT Guwahati
Treasurer: Dr. Shrikrishna N. Joshi, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering IIT Guwahati

MEMBERS
Dr. Sachin D. Kore, IIT Guwahati
Dr. Subhash C. Mishra, IIT Guwahati
Dr. Sukhomay Pal, IIT Guwahati,
Dr. P. S. Robi, IIT Guwahati
Dr. A. K. Dass, IIT Guwahati
Dr. A. D. Sahsrabudhe, IIT Guwahati
Mrs. Manjuri Hazarika, AECollege Guwahati
Dr. Rajat Gupta, NIT Silchar
Mr. M. Chandrasekaran, NERIST Itanagar
Mr. A. Goswami, IIT Guwahati
Dr. D. K. Sarma, IIT Guwahati

Amitabh Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India
Amitava De., IIT Bombay, India
Banabic, D., University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Cao, J., Northwestern University, USA
Chen, J.C., Bradley University, USA
Davies, B.J., Putnoe, UK
Davim, P.J., University of Aveiro, Portugal
Dean, T.A., The University of Birmingham, UK
Ehmann, K.F., Northwestern University, USA
Gunasekera, J.S., Ohio University, USA
Hodgson, P., Deakin University, Australia
Jain, P.K., IIT Roorkee, India
Jain, V.K., IIT Kanpur, India
Joshi, S.S., IIT Bombay, India
Kailas, S. V., IISc Bangalore, India
Kalyan Ghosh, Montreal Polytechnique, Canada
Kapoor, S.G., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kuboki, T., The University of Electro- Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Lin, Z., Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Miles, M., Brigham Young University, USA
Nee, A.Y.C., National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ozel, T., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Pandey, P.M., IIT Delhi, India
Pande, S.S., IIT Bombay, India
Pham, D.T., Cardiff University, UK
Prasadaraju, D.R., DST, India
Rahman, M., National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ramesh Babu, N., IIT Madras, India
Ramón Quiza Sardiñas, University of Matanzas, Cuba
Rao, K.P., City university of Hongkong, Hongkong
Shan, H.S., Chandigarh, India
Shankar Kalyanasundaram, Australian
National University, Australia
Shanmugam, M.S., IIT Madras, India
Srivatsan, T.S., University of Akron, USA
Sumitesh Das, Tata Steel, India
Venugopal, S., IGCAR, India
Vijayaraghavan, L., IIT Madras, India
Yang, D-Y., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea