The conference invites original contributions related to advances in and uses of computing and communication technologies in Civil and Building Engineering. The contributions could cover a broad range from fundamentals to applications.

Authors of papers, identified during the reviewing process of including original work that could form the basis of a journal publication, will be invited to submit full-length, journal-quality papers, for inclusion in special issues of Computing in Civil Engineering (ASCE) and Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier)¹.

Abstract submission

The conference is planning to publish a book of abstracts and an electronic full proceedings. The book of abstracts will reserve two pages per paper. Authors should fit their contributions under one of the conference themes and should also classify them under one or more of the list of topics (see Themes and topics). For details see Author instructions.

Abstracts are requested by 15 September 2009.

Paper submission

The full paper should be a maximum of six pages in length and must conform to the format prescribed in the conference paper template. Authors are also required to submit a two page extended abstract. For details see Author instructions.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that proper authorisation is provided for any materials that is not their own work.

To allow for the publication of the proceedings authors need to transfer their copyrights to the publisher. The transfer agreement is handled via the Paper submission process and the conference management system (CMT).

Full Papers and modified abstracts are due by 15 December 2009.

[1] Journal papers must have at least 50% of new content.

Conference Chair: Dr Walid Tizani, The University of Nottingham, UK