CALL FOR PAPER

SPECIAL SESSION “Optimization in Civil Engineering"

Paris, France

December 2-4, 2012

We invite you to participate in the special session "Optimization in Civil Engineering", which will be organized within the European Conference of Civil Engineering (ECCIE '12) in Paris, France on 2-4 December 2012.

Description of the Symposium

In civil engineering design, the maximum security measures must be obtained with minimal cost. For that reason, the optimization methods are widely used in the area of civil engineering. The aim of the special session is to discuss recent studies on optimization in civil engineering. The highlighted topics (but are not limited to) are:

• Cost Optimization of Structures

• Experimental Optimization

• Numerical Optimization

• Optimization in Earthquake Engineering

• Optimization by using Evolutionary Algorithms

• Optimization by using Metaheuristic Algorithms

• Optimization by using Probability and Statistics

• Optimization of Active and Passive Control of Structures

• Optimization in Construction Management

• Optimization in Hydraulics

• Optimization of Infrastructures

• Optimization in Geotechnical Engineering

• Optimization in Material Science

• Optimization in Transportation Engineering

• Structural Optimization

Please, send your abstracts to Gebrail Bekdas via E-mail (bekdas@istanbul.edu.tr). After the primary check of the abstracts for the scope of the special session, the contributors will be informed for the submission of the final papers.

Sample file for the preparation of the final papers can be downloaded from here.

Deadlines for the Special Session

Abstract submission deadline: 30 August 2012 12 September 2012 (Extended – Last Call)

Notification of the acceptability of abstracts: 04 September 2012 – 14 September 2012

Full paper submission: 28 September 2012 30 September 2012 (Extended – Last Call)

Notification of acceptance: 30 October 2012

Registration

The registration fee is 550 EUR for non-WSEAS members and 500 EUR for WSEAS members. By submitting the registration fee, you are entitled to the following:

•Admittance to the multiconference, that takes place in the city for which you registered, for its entire duration

•Publication of one paper up to six pages in the hard copy proceedings of the conference

•Publication of that paper up to six pages in the CD-ROM proceedings of the multiconference

•Inclusion of that paper in the E-Library of WSEAS

•A right to submit an extended version of that paper for possible free publication in a NAUN journal

•One hard copy of the conference proceedings

•One CD-ROM of the multiconference proceedings

•Participation in the conference banquet

•Participation in the conference coffee breaks

•A special discount for accommodation in the conference venue or a nearby hotel depending on the location

•One conference bag

Additional Fees and Discounts:

•Extra Pages: For papers that are longer than 6 pages, there is a fee of 100 EUR per additional page

•Extra Papers: 250 EUR per additional paper

•Additional hard copy proceedings: 50 EUR per volume

•Additional CD-ROM proceedings: 20 EUR per volume

•WSEAS Membership: 100 EUR (valid for 12 months)

•Student registration: Students may register at the discount price of 250 EUR provided that they do not submit a paper, or that a co-author of theirs pays the full registration price of their paper.

You can register from here.

Your contribution will increase the success of the special session. We are looking forward to meet you in ECCIE’12, Paris, France.

Best regards,

Dr. Gebrail Bekdas and S. Melih Nigdeli

Organizers of the special session

Department Civil Engineering,

Istanbul University,

Avcılar/Istanbul/Turkey

Tel: +90 212 4737070; Fax: +90 212 4737176