Foreword
These electronic proceedings
include original contributions focusing on
the advances, innovations, future challenges
and information needs of the application of
computing in engineering in general and
civil and building engineering in
particular. These contributions cover a wide
range of engineering topics and a wide range
of information technologies - conventional
and novel.
The
contributions are provided in 301 papers
that have been presented at the 13th
International Conference on Computing in
Civil and Building Engineering and the 17th
International EG-ICE Workshop on Intelligent
Computing in Engineering. These papers were
drawn from a total of 422 papers submitted.
The proceedings included here are in the
form of 2-page extended abstracts and a full
papers per paper. The papers have undergone
a two-stage peer reviewing process. They
have been contributed to by 532 different
authors. This constitutes a tremendous
effort and collects a significant amount of
knowledge in the area. The contributors
include researchers and practicing experts
from 40 countries and 253 organisations,
working at the forefront of their respective
fields. The proceedings are classified into
nineteen sections.
The
proceedings cover
advances and innovations in information technologies as applied to engineering
problems. They also include new approaches
and methodologies to tackle engineering
problems. The proceedings provide insightful
looks at the challenges and the information
needs of the future. The proceedings are
timely in that they include considerable
focus on information modelling for ever more
digital representation of the world
encompassing more aspects and more complex
domains, on life-cycle and sustainability
issues responding to the global climate
challenges and on automation in construction
for improved accuracy and productivity.
The completed
work presented here involved tremendous
collective effort on the part of many
individuals. I therefore wish to thank all
532 paper contributors who entrusted their
latest work to this conference. I am very
grateful to all those involved in the
academic reviewing process and the
organisation including the organisers of
special sessions. I am also very grateful to
colleagues on the Local Organising and
Administrative Committees, the International
Steering Committee, the Boards of Directors
of the International Society of Computing in
Civil and Building Engineering and the
International Scientific Committee. A
particular gratitude goes to the Faculty of
Engineering at the University of Nottingham
for providing all forms of support and
making available vital resources.
I am
particularly grateful to the remarkable
effort, insight, foresight and expertise of
Dr Michael Mawdesley who was instrumental in
the making of the Conference.
Walid Tizani
The University
of Nottingham
June 2010
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