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View Guidelines for submitting a symposium proposal at ICCES2023

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Symposium proposals should be submitted in English via the Conference website. You could also send the proposal (including the suggested title, a brief description, and the organizers’ information) to ICCES Secretariat 
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The chair will be in charge of corresponding, call for papers, instructing speakers, and will act as host and timekeeper during the session. The chair is also expected to assure speakers to present at the ICCES 2023, including payment of registration fees.


The structure of the symposium is not fixed. Generally, for contributed papers, each will be of a 15-minute presentation. For student papers, these will be of 10-minute presentation. Enough time for discussion should be included.

The deadline for symposium proposal submission is September 30, 2022. Proposals will be reviewed and notification for acceptance will be sent in around two weeks after the form has been submitted.

If you have any questions or need any assistance, please contact the ICCES Secretariat.

※: Symposium of Meshless, Mesh Reduction and Other Novel Computational Methods

※: Symposium of Meshless, Mesh Reduction and Other Novel Computational Methods

Corresponding Organizer
Leiting Dong
Professor & Deputy Dean,
School of Aeronautic Science & Engineering,
Beihang University, Beijing, China

Summary
Numerical simulation methods have been increasingly used as important and powerful tools for solving science and engineering problems during the past decades, thanks to the rapid development of advanced algorithms and computer technology. Nowadays, as the problems to be solved are becoming larger in scale and more complex in mathematical descriptions, conventional mesh-based finite element and finite volume methods have encountered significant difficulties. Alternatively, a large number of meshless and mesh/dimension reduction methods have been developed.
Besides avoiding or reducing the domain discretization using volume elements, these methods have exhibited advantages for various types of problems. To name a few, meshless methods are very useful for solving large deformation problems, boundary element method is advantageous for the modeling of physics in infinitely-large domains and problems involving degenerate/moving boundaries, and particle methods are powerful in solving extreme fluid dynamic problems. Due to their unique features, these methods have attracted great attention and been applied successfully in many fields of science and engineering, e.g. fluid dynamics, fracture mechanics, electromagnetic waves, etc.
The objective of this mini-symposium is to bring together worldwide experts working on meshless, mesh/dimension reduction methods, and other novel computational methods, to share state-of-the-art research contributions in the relevant field and exchange ideas on the development as well as the application of these methods. Topics of interest for this mini-symposium include but are not restricted to:
- Boundary element method
- Element-free Galerkin method
- Meshless local Petrov Galerkin method
- Smoothed particle hydrodynamics
- Material point method
- Boundary-type meshless methods
- Generalized finite difference method
- Collocation meshless method
- Peridynamics
- Fragile Points Method
- Isogeometric Method
- Combination of different methods
- Advanced implementation of mesh reduction methods
- Application of mesh reduction methods in realistic applications

Keywords: Meshless Method; Boundary Element Method; Particle Method; Mesh/Dimensional Reduction Methods 

Co-Chairs:

Satya N. Atluri
Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA 

Zhuojia Fu
Professor, Hohai University, Nanjing, China

Alexander Cheng
Professor, University of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA 

Jurica Soric
Professor, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Demosthenes Polyzos  
Professor, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Božidar Šarler
Professor, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

António Tadeu
Professor, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Vladimír Sládek
Professor, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak

Benny YC HON
Professor, City University of Hong Kong, HongKong, China

Pihua Wen
Professor, Nanchang University, JiangXi, China

Nguyen Xuan Hung
Professor, HUTECH University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sundararajan Natarajan
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Mingjing Li
Associate Professor, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Saeid Abbasbandy
Professor, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

Dr. Konstantinos A. Mountris
University College London, UK

S1: Multiphysics Problem in Unconventional Reservoirs

S1: Multiphysics Problem in Unconventional Reservoirs

The topic is related to multiphysics problem in unconventional reservoirs, such as hydraulic fracturing simulation, fluid flow and heat transfer in fractured reservoirs, proppant flow in hydraulic fractures, and multiphase flow of oil, gas and water in porous media.

Chairs:

Daobing Wang
Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

Hai Sun
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Wenchao Liu
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Wei Liu
Professor, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, China

S2: Isogeometric Analysis-based Design Optimization Methods and Applications

S2: Isogeometric Analysis-based Design Optimization Methods and Applications

Isogeometric analysis aims to integrate CAD (computer-aided design) and CAE (computer-aided engineering) in a unified mathematical expression framework, which can combine geometric modelling, structural analysis, and design, and provides a new choice and opportunity for structural design optimization. Potential topics for submissions include but are not limited to:
1. Isogeometric analysis-based size and shape optimization
2. Isogeometric analysis-based topology optimization
3. Isogeometric analysis-based design of composite structure
4. Isogeometric analysis-based design of metamaterials
5. IGA based CAD/CAE integration
6. Automatic model generation for isogeometric analysis
7. High-efficient isogeometric analysis/isogeometric structural optimization
8. Numerical implementations and software codes

Chairs:

Yingjun Wang
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, China

Mi Xiao
Professor, School of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Hongliang Liu
Associate Professor, College of Aerospace Engineering, Shenyang Aerospace University, China

Zhenpei Wang
Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Zhaohui Xia
Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

S3: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

S3: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

Heat transfer and fluid flow are fundamental phenomena in nature and engineering. Many aspects in production and daily life are closely related to heat transfer and fluid flow processes. Modeling and simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow are crucial for a wide range of scientific and industrial applications at various spatial and temporal scales, with increased interests in recent years.

Along with the development of computer industry and the advancement of numerical methods, significant advances have been witnessed in modeling and simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow in past decades. Solid foundation in both hardware and software has been established to study the processes because of its importance in reducing production costs, discovering new phenomena and developing new technologies, etc. However, accurate modeling and efficient, robust simulation of complex heat transfer and fluid flow still remain challenging. Multi-disciplinary research effort is a clear and general trend for the modeling and simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow, such as ‘multi’-scale, ‘multi’-modeling, advanced ‘multi’-algorithms, ‘multi’-physics, heterogeneous parallel computing with ‘multi’-hardware, ‘multi’-application, etc.

The proposed symposium aims to bring together researchers to highlight the current developments of heat transfer and fluid flow both in theory and computational methods, to exchange the latest research ideas, and to promote further collaborations in the community. We invite investigators to contribute to this symposium with original research articles/abstracts as well as comprehensive review articles addressing the recent advances and/or challenges in mathematical and numerical modeling, algorithm, and computation of complex heat transfer and fluid flow. Only the influential work will be considered in this symposium.

Potential topics of this symposium mainly include, but are not limited to
•Advanced physical models of complex heat transfer and fluid flow
•Mesh adaptation and mesh generation methods
•Advanced discretization schemes
•Fast solvers and high-performance computation
•Model reduction method
•Molecular simulation and Lattice Boltzmann method
•Finite difference method, finite volume method, and finite element method
•Multiscale and multiphysics modeling and simulation
•Turbulence, turbulent drag reduction
•Single/multiphase flow and heat transfer
•Multicomponent flow and transfer
•Micro-channel flow and heat transfer
•Nano fluid flow and heat transfer
•Viscoelastic fluid flow and heat transfer
•Inverse modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow
•Stochastic process in heat transfer and fluid flow
•Heat transfer and fluid flow in porous media
•Benchmark solution, error estimates, and uncertainty quantification
•Multi-applications of heat transfer and fluid flow processes, e.g., enhanced heat transfer in micro-channel, hot dry rock, hydrogen storage and transportation, etc.

Chairs:

Bo Yu
Professor, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

Shuyu Sun
Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Jinjia Wei
Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Zhiguo Qu
Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Yongtu Liang
Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Liang Gong
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Weihua Cai
Professor, Northeast Electric Power University, China

Jianqin Zhu
Professor, Beihang University, China

Lin Chen
Research Fellow, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Secretary

Jingfa Li
Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

S4: Computational Acoustics, Optimization and Applications

S4: Computational Acoustics, Optimization and Applications

The symposium covers all aspects of computational acoustics and related optimization and engineering applications. The topics include but are not limit to: advanced physical simulation methods, machine learning based approaches, topology optimization methods, design of acoustic structures and acoustic metamaterials/ metasurfaces, sound source or field reconstruction methods.

Keywords: Computational acoustics, topology optimization, machine learning, metamaterials, metasurfaces, sound reconstruction

Chairs:

Haibo Chen
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Changjun Zheng
Associate Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China

Wenjing Ye
Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

S5: Topology Optimization Methods and Engineering Application

S5: Topology Optimization Methods and Engineering Application

Topology optimization, aiming to allocate the available material to maximize system performance while satisfying multiple constraints, has experienced tremendous progress. This issue focuses on the new progress of topology optimization methods and their engineering applications, especially theoretical development, numerical implementation and potential applications.

Chairs:

Kai Long
Associate Professor, North China Electric Power University, China

Xuan Wang
Lecturer, Hefei University of Technology, China

Jiao Jia
Lecturer, Beihang University, China

Zunyi Duan
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Quhao Li
Associate Professor, Shandong University, China

Hongliang Liu
Associate Professor, Shenyang Aerospace University, China

S6: Numerical Methods for Buckling Analysis and Design of Thin-Walled Structures

S6: Numerical Methods for Buckling Analysis and Design of Thin-Walled Structures

The load carrying capacity of thin-walled structures is known to be significantly influenced by stability aspects such as buckling. A reliable prediction of buckling phenomena requires a robust, efficient and accurate analysis tool and consideration of a number of inherent structural imperfections which often dominate the overall non-linear elastic response. The reliable prediction of buckling includes both critical load, instability deformation, secondary branches and imperfection sensitivities or any combination thereof and calls for sophisticated numerical methods which allow to assess the various physical responses during tracing the equilibrium path of structural buckling. Furthermore, robustness, accuracy and computational efficiency are key factors for an innovative and sustainable thin-walled structural design which exploits the full lightweight potential.

This mini-symposium aims at bringing together researchers from across the structural buckling community to discuss and exchange latest achievements in the field of novel numerical methods for buckling analysis and design of thin-walled structure research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to computational and algorithmic aspects of the analytical and semi-analytical methods, reduced-order modeling methods, finite element methods, isogeometric analysis, composite materials and optimization methods, for buckling modeling, analysis and design of thin-walled structures.

Chairs:

Yujie Guo
Associate Professor, College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Ke Liang 
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

S7: Peridynamic Theory and Multiscale Methods for Complex Material Behavior

S7: Peridynamic Theory and Multiscale Methods for Complex Material Behavior

Simulation of complex material behavior presents huge challenges in computational science and engineering nowadays. Overcoming those challenges requires the development of novel mathematical models and computational methods. Examples of such challenges in classical solid mechanics include the characterization of the microstructure dependence of the material response, as well as the simulation of material failure and damage; similarly, the description of coupling multi-scale behaviors represents a challenge in classical theories. Peridynamics, as a new nonlocal theory, offers an alternative approach that avoids difficulties arising in classical local theories in the description of complex material behavior. Additionally, peridynamics as a nonlocal continuum model can be applied to coarse-grained molecular dynamics, potentially for bridging the atomistic scale to the continuum scale. Computational implementations of a peridynamic model, however, often cause huge computational cost and incompatibility with classical tractions-like boundary conditions. Multiscale coupling strategies that bridge local and nonlocal models seem to provide a solution to both the computational expense and the boundary treatment. Multiscale coupling methods, in general, refer to the class of mathematical and computational techniques for the problems that exhibit characteristic features at multiple scales. Several of these methods have been proposed in past years for the effective prediction of the material response in, e.g., composites and heterogeneous media. This mini-symposium invites contributions on recent developments on the peridynamic theory and multiscale coupling modeling for the simulation of complex material behavior.

Chairs:

Fei Han
Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

Yunteng Wang
Research Fellow, Institut für Geotechnik, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Austria

Xin Lai
Associate Professor, Wuhan university of technology, China

Xin Gu
Associate Professor, Hohai University, China

Linjuan Wang
Associate Professor, Beihang University, China

Xiaoliang Deng
Associate Research Fellow, National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, China

S8: Mathematical Problems in Oil and Gas Drilling and Completion Engineering

S8: Mathematical Problems in Oil and Gas Drilling and Completion Engineering

The topic is related to mathematical problems in drilling and completion engineering, such as down-hole tubular mechanics, tools design, multiphase flow in wellbore, wellbore stability, cuttings transfer, drilling risk prediction and control, increasing rate of penetration, drilling optimization and so on.

Keywords: Drilling and completion, wellbore, drilling optimization, down-hole mechanics

Chairs:

Wenjun Huang
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Qilong Xue
Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

Yuqiang Xu
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

S9: The Future of Technologies in Energy Transition: Modeling, Simulation and Machine Learning

S9: The Future of Technologies in Energy Transition: Modeling, Simulation and Machine Learning

Aims and Scopes:

Energy transition refers to the global energy sector’s shift from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption — including oil, natural gas and coal — to renewable energy sources like wind and solar, as well as hydrogen. Thanks to the economic and environmental friendliness, renewable energy is regarded as one of the ultimate solutions to human energy problems, which is profoundly affecting the long-term reconstruction of the world's energy supply and application system, and is accelerating the rapid change and generational development of transportation, power generation, industry and housing. Traditional fossil energy has strong geographical attributes, and the uneven distribution of typical coal, oil and gas resources has brought countries all over the world competing to control energy supply, transportation channels and application markets. The global energy governance system has experienced heavy impacts from the Gulf War and other major power game events, and is fragile and balanced with the continued turbulent situation in the Middle East. With the continuous changes in the international geopolitical pattern and the competitiveness of various countries, it is urgent to enter a new stage of stability. As a typical renewable energy, hydrogen is regarded as a future weapon for maintaining energy competitiveness by traditional fossil energy exporters (Saudi Aramco has exported "blue hydrogen" to Japan and announced a $5 billion green hydrogen construction plan), and it is regarded by traditional fossil energy importing countries as an important opportunity to fundamentally solve the problem of energy shortage. The world's major economies have made major strategic decisions on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and the international energy community has also paid more attention to the new energy industry and accelerated the process of energy transition.

The fundamental driving force of energy transition lies in people's need and yearning for a better life, which combines the dual functions of climate governance and energy innovation. Renewable energy will become a green engine for building a community with a shared future for mankind. Clearly, the research focusing on the modeling and simulation techniques helps to understand the fundamental mechanisms in the new energy systems, including phase transitions, material stiffness and fluid flow. It also has a major role in the understanding and optimization of carbon reduction efforts, including carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).  As an emerging technique accelerating our investigation in the practical complex emerging problems, machine learning has also been successfully applied in various directions in the energy transition processes. This symposium aims to bring together active scientists in the emerging field of modeling, simulation and machine learning to discuss recent advances in experimental studies, theoretical analysis and numerical modelling of various renewable energy problems and energy transition techniques. Of particular interest are research topics concerned with the interplay between policy analysis, laboratory experiments, computer science, and various engineering applications regarding energy transition, and the development and application of machine learning algorithms.

Chairs:

Huai Su
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Tao Zhang
Postdoc, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Ran Tao
Postdoc, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Yuansi Tian
Assistant Professor, Chang’an University, China

Wei Wang
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, China

Yue Zhou
Assistant Professor, Cardiff University, UK

Bohui Shi
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Xiaoben Liu
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

S10: Emerging Computational Intelligence Techniques for Industrial Application

S10: Emerging Computational Intelligence Techniques for Industrial Application

Computational technologies have been acknowledged as a fast-growing approach from research and development to various domains of application including healthcare, business, education, travel, and modern industry. With the growth of valuable data generated each day, the process of analysis and making use of it is highly crucial in decision-making and policy planning processes for all business sectors. Other obvious applications include forecasting, decision-support systems, scheduling, optimized solutions, root cause analysis, and data analysis. In manufacturing, in particular, predictive and preventive maintenance based on machine learning, (including deep learning, neural networks, and reinforcement learning), enables the prediction of failures before they occur, saving repair cost and time and extending asset lifecycles. To accomplish the ultimate results in all aspects, intelligent systems, smart devices, and sophisticated analyzing techniques must carefully be taken into consideration with great support from strong and advanced applied mathematics principles.
The symposium aims to provide a powerful forum for researchers, scientists, academicians, scholars, and practitioners around the world from academia and industry to present papers on recent developments in the broad fields of computational intelligence and related topics. It shall also bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange innovative and novel ideas and share field trial experiences. Moreover, the symposium will also provide a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and intelligent solutions adopted in the fields.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Emerging computational techniques for industrial artificial intelligence
Data intelligence and machine learning
Applied mathematics and optimization analysis for industrial applications
Computer and machine vision and digital twin technology

Chairs:

Sayan Kaennakham
Associate Professor, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

Nara Samattapapong
Assistant Professor, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

Pornthip Pongchalee
Assistant Professor, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Thailand

Krittidej Chanthawara
Assistant Professor, Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, Thailand

Chantana Simtrakankun
Assistant Professor, Loei Rajabhat University, Thailand

Pirapong Inthapong
Research Fellow, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

S11: Extreme Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

S11: Extreme Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

In recent years, there are an increase in demands requiring materials and structures to be designed to withstand harsh environments, such as extreme high and low temperatures, high-speed impacts, high density of power and electric current. The harsh applications anticipate satisfactory service reliability of structures, which nevertheless are challenging to be investigated experimentally at unaffordable cost. This provides the opportunities to perform refined numerical simulations or analysis to evaluate the reliability and performance of structures with sufficiently accurate material models and numerical algorithms in the harsh environments.

We initiate this Symposium to report and discuss recent progress in various aspects of extreme mechanics by emphasizing mechanical behaviour and reliability of advanced engineering materials and structures for harsh applications in different areas and sectors. This Symposium welcomes original research and review articles on all aspects of advanced materials and structures with the knowledge and understanding of the processes and mechanisms that induce deterioration or damage/failure to predict reliability and improve structural performance. 

Topics of interest include (but not limit to):
•Constitutive models of materials in extreme loading applications
•Novel materials with outstanding thermal, mechanical or electrical properties
•Thermal management by advanced technology
•Life prediction models and failure analysis
•New experimental methods to evaluate constitutive behaviour
•Reliability tests
•Machine learning algorithms and applications
•New numerical algorithms to analyze extreme loading problems

Keywords: Extreme mechanics, service reliability, advanced materials and structures, harsh applications

Chairs:

Xu Long
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Yutai Su
Senior Research Fellow, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Baoping Zou
Professor, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China

Ruiwen Li
Lecture, Xi'an University of Technology, China

Xiaokai Hu
Professor, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China

Yujie Li
Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China

S12: Computational and Experimental Techniques for Structural Integrity Assessment

S12: Computational and Experimental Techniques for Structural Integrity Assessment

Maintaining sufficient level of structural integrity is the prerequisite of a structural component serving its functions during the desired operating life. Precise assessment of the structural integrity is crucial in the design of engineering structural components, which provides criteria for optimizing the structural designs, determining operating lifetimes, establishing the maintenance schemes and inspection periods, and mitigating the catastrophic failures. Recent years, the increasing demands of developing economical, durable, and reliable structural components promote the developments of computational and experimental techniques for structural integrity assessment.
This symposium aims to bring together researchers and engineers working on structural integrity to discuss and exchange latest developments in the computational and experimental techniques for structural integrity assessments.
The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
• Structural integrity
• Structural durability
• Damage tolerance
• Fatigue, fracture and damage mechanics
• Corrosion and corrosion-fatigue problems
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Digital twins for product lifetime management

Keywords: Structural integrity, fatigue and fracture mechanics, failure of materials and structures, structural health monitoring

Chairs:

Biao Li 
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Teng Zhang
Associate professor, Air Force Engineering University, China

Jianfeng Wen

Professor, East China University Of Science And Technology

S13: Advanced Reservoir Simulation Technologies and Applications

S13: Advanced Reservoir Simulation Technologies and Applications

Current reservoir simulation methods are developing in three main directions, one of which is the complexity of application scenarios, such as the coupled thermal-stress-flow multi-physics problem, the complex geometry of fractured and vuggy reservoirs, etc. The second is the performance optimization of FVM-based solvers, such as localized nonlinear solver, more efficient phase equilibrium algorithms, reduced-order methods, sequential implicit schemes. The third is the diversification of discretization methods for computational domain and governing equations, such as the newly developed meshless reservoir numerical modeling methods based on computational-domain point cloud discretization.
This mini-Symposium focuses on the recent development of reservoir simulation methods and their applications.

Chairs:

Xiang Rao
Associate Professor, Yangtze University, China

Pin Jia
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, China

Hao Xiong
Postdoc, Yale University, USA

Hao Liu
Assistant Professor, Hohai University, China

Yonghui Wu
Assistant Professor, China University of mining and Technology-Xuzhou, China

S14: Advances in Experimental and Mathematical Modeling of Mass and Heat Transfer in Shale Oil Extraction Systems

S14: Advances in Experimental and Mathematical Modeling of Mass and Heat Transfer in Shale Oil Extraction Systems

Energy extraction from shale oil resources has gained a great momentum in recent years to meet world’s ever-increasing demand of affordable energy. The performance of oil well systems for extracting energy from shale oil resources has been low due to the ultra-low permeability of shale oil reservoirs. The system performance is controlled by the efficiency of mass and heat transfer in the shale oil reservoirs.
 
Experimental and mathematical modeling of mass and heat transfer in shale oil reservoirs has played an important role in providing valuable information for understanding shale oil reservoirs and improving well system efficiency in recent years. However, accurate measurements and modeling of the coupled effect of mass and heat transfer in shale oil reservoirs still remain challenging due to limited data of reservoir heterogeneity.
 
This symposium offers an opportunity for researchers to share their most recent research and development work in experimental and mathematical modeling of mass and heat transfer in shale oil reservoirs. Topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:
 
• State-of-the-art measurement of fluid flow in ultra-low shale samples.
• State-of-the-art measurement of heat transfer in ultra-low shale samples.
• State-of-the-art measurement of coupled mass-heat flow in shale samples.
• State-of-the-art measurement of heat transfer through well construction materials.
• Analytical modeling of heat transfer from geothermal zone to shale oil reservoirs.
• Analytical modeling of heat transfer from wellbores to shale oil reservoirs.
• Numerical modeling of multi-phase flow in heterogeneous shale oil reservoirs.
• Numerical modeling of multi-phase flow and heat transfer between wellbores.

Keywords: Shale oil, formation evaluation, well drilling, completion, reservoir engineering, mathematical modeling, numerical simulation, lab investigations, mass transfer, heat transfer

Chairs:

Boyun Guo
Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Jun Li
Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Gao Li
Professor, Southwest Petroleum University, China

Hongjun Yin
Professor, Northeast Petroleum University, China

Baojiang Sun
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Zhongxi Zhu
Professor, Yangtze University, China

Xuejun Hou
Professor, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, China

Dawei Liu
Professor, Guangdong University of Petro-chemical Engineering, China

S15: Graph Computing and Machine Learning

S15: Graph Computing and Machine Learning

The symposium will be organized around the following topics: theoretical graphing and graph computing, machine vision and deep learning, and robotics. We will explore the basic theoretical research such as graphical computing and its expanded application in machine vision and robotics, and discuss the technical application of engineering measurement, product detection, and motion attitude control involved in the industrial field. In addition, technical discussions on epidemic prevention and control and ecological environment management based on graphics computing and computer vision theory will be carried out in conjunction with hot issues such as the global new covid-19 epidemic and carbon emissions.

Keywords: Theoretical graphics, geometry, machine vision, computer vision, robotics, deep learning

Chairs:

Pengfei Zheng
Associate Professor, Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College, China

Jingjing Lou
Associate Professor, Shenyang Jianzhu University, China

S16: Structural Health Monitoring: Innovation, Modern Tools and Machine Learning

S16: Structural Health Monitoring: Innovation, Modern Tools and Machine Learning

Engineers have been continuously striving to improve the efficiency of conventional problems of Structural Health Monitoring, of building and bridges. In recent years, an increasing role of Machine Learning in civil engineering – related areas has been observed, leading to many exciting and innovative applications. Machine Learning methods are problem-solving strategies that are used to find approximate solutions to complex problems. These methods are mainly inspired by the strategies that nature uses to solve problems. Most frequently, they are employed to substitute or enhance complex and computationally intensive mathematical models that have proved intractable for conventional analysis based on hard-computing strategies.

In Structural Health Monitoring, the classification of the cracks, the characteristic of the cracks and the intensity of the cracks can be measured by the Innovation methods (i.e Machine Learning, CNN, Image processing) and through Modern tools (UAVs, AUVs, and slow rate camera).
 
The mini-symposium at ICCES2023 will provide an overview of the present thinking and state-of-the-art developments on the application of Machine Learning and artificial intelligence techniques in Structural Health Monitoring. The proposed collection of papers will include the latest research work from scientists and engineers working in different areas of Machine Learning, covering all of its aspects related to civil engineering.

Keywords: SHM, image processing, CNN, machine learning

Chair:

Afaq Ahmad
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UET Taxila, Pakistan

S17: Advanced Materials: Design, Manufacturing and Multiscale Modelling

S17: Advanced Materials: Design, Manufacturing and Multiscale Modelling

The rapid development of manufacturing techniques nowadays provides us a wide range of freedom on designing advanced materials and structures, which usually relies on efficient multiscale modelling. The symposium "Advanced Materials:Design, Manufacturing and Multiscale Modelling" aims to gather researchers and graduate students with different scientific discipline backgrounds to discuss the latest research in advanced materials and structures, e.g. soft and biomaterials, composite materials, functionally graded materials, 3D printed materials, optical and acoustic materials, and many others. The process from initial design stage, manufacturing stage, multiscale modelling as well as optimization will be covered. Authors are cordially invited to share their cutting-edge research in this symposium.

Keywords: Advanced materials, microstructural design, additive manufacturing, multiscale modelling

Chairs:

Guannan Wang
Research Professor, Zhejiang University, China

Zhelong He
Assistant Professor, Hunan University, China

Yabin Yang
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Wenqiong Tu
Professor, Jiangsu University, China

S18: Frontier Research and Engineering Application of Renewable Energy

S18: Frontier Research and Engineering Application of Renewable Energy

Climate change is one of the main threats to the sustainable development of human society, and reducing carbon emissions has become a major concern of the international community. Many countries have established the goal of achieving carbon neutrality around the middle of this century and focused on promoting energy transition and vigorously developing clean and renewable energy. Therefore, the development and utilization of renewable energy including solar power, onshore and offshore wind power, hydropower, etc is an important strategic choice for global power development. In order to further promote the frontier research and engineering application of renewable energy, we are pleased to invite prospective experts to share original research achievements and innovations on the following non-exhaustive topics.

 -  Renewable Energy, power generation, energy conversion and storage;
 -  Wind energy, solar energy, hydro energy, pumped storage, smart grids;
 -  Wind-solar-water-storage integration, sustainable energy systems and policies;
 -  Hybrid pumped storage energy solutions towards wind and PV integration;
 -  Experimental measurement, numerical simulation ;
 -  Advanced technical methodologies and engineering applications;
 -  Novel approaches to flow control, noise control, vibration control;
 -  Application of AI, IoT,  cloud computing, intelligent manufacturing, 3D printing;
 -  Digitalisation, digital twins, digital power generation unit, digital power plant.

Keywords: Renewable energy, rotating machinery, multiphysics coupling, experimental measurement, numerical simulation, industrial digitalization, intelligent manufacturing, machine learning and AI

Chairs:

Xingxing Huang
Senior Consultant, InnoFuture GmbH, Switzerland

Xavier Escaler
Professor, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

S19: Mechanics of Biomedical Materials and Devices

S19: Mechanics of Biomedical Materials and Devices

The aim of this Symposium is to bring together specialists in mechanics and micromechanics of materials, applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, materials science, physics, biomechanics and medical engineering to discuss the latest developments and trends in analysis of deformation, damage and fracture processes as well as mechanical properties and performance of biomedical materials and devices using experimental testing, microstructural characterisation and numerical simulations. The topics of the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
- Experimental and computational analysis of biomedical materials and devices (orthopaedic, dental, cardiovascular, etc.);
- Bio-inspired and biomimetic materials and structures;
- Mechanical properties and performance of biomedical materials in vivo;
- Mechanics of 3d-printed biomedical components and structures;
- Mechanical characterisation of artificial tissues and scaffolds;
- Mechanics of cells;
- Fracture mechanics of biological tissues;
- Damage in hard and soft biotissues;
- Fatigue, creep and biodegradation of biomedical materials;
- Responses of biological tissues and biomedical materials to dynamic loading;
- Structural integrity of prostheses.

Keywords: Biomedical materials, biomedical devices, experiments, computational analysis, prostheses

Chairs:
Vadim Silberschmidt
Professor of Mechanics of Materials, Loughborough University, UK

Mikhail A. Tashkinov
Associate Professor, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia

Juan Du
Lecturer, Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, China

S20: Vibration-acoustics-based Structural Health Monitoring

S20: Vibration-acoustics-based Structural Health Monitoring

This symposium addresses the topic of structural health monitoring, which is based on vibration and acoustics. Contributions that focus on all aspects of advances in vibration-acoustics-based structural health monitoring are invited, which can span a wide range of mechanical, aerospace, civil engineering, and so on. Contributions proposing theoretical innovations, experimental investigations, and practical applications are welcome. The topics include, but are not limited to:
 1. Structural health monitoring based on vibration and acoustics
 2. Structural damage detection based on vibration and acoustics
 3. Structural parameter/load identification based on vibration and acoustics
 4. Ultrasonics-based structural health monitoring and damage detection
 5. Structural prognostics/health management/safety assurance
 6. Sensing/actuating technologies for vibration and acoustics
 7. Modeling and simulation of vibration and acoustics
 8. Modal analysis and signal processing
 9. Structural model updating using vibration and acoustics
 10. Non-linear vibration and acoustics
 11. Vibro-acoustic coupling
 12. Big data and artificial intelligence technologies
 13. Vibration and acoustics under ambient excitations
 14. Engineering applications of vibration and acoustic methods

Chairs:
Maosen Cao
Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, China

Wei Xu
Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, China

Nizar Faisal Alkayem
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, College of Civil Engineering, Hohai University, China

S21: Blockchain based Applications for Future Internet

S21: Blockchain based Applications for Future Internet

Blockchain technology enables credible information management capabilities, application behaviors, and web services, thus could provide the future Internet with trust worthiness. With the persistent evolution of the blockchain technology architecture, blockchain based applications (e.g. web 3.0) are playing an increasingly important role for the Internet (e.g. IoT, ICS, anonymous networks, cloud data center, etc.). The throughput of data volume, transaction processing speed, and high transaction expense lead to the restriction of blockchain based application scenarios. The security problems also obfuscate the perspective of blockchain based industrial. Such challenges call for the cooperation of researchers and engineers to explore the approaches and possibilities to a practical technology architecture layout which could adapt to the development trend of the Internet.

Keywords: Cryptography theory, consensus algorithm, rollup and cross-chain protocol, privacy protection and security, smart contract

Chairs:

Shen Su
Associate professor, Guangzhou University, China

Guangxia Xu
Professor, Guangzhou University, China

Ning Hu
Professor, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China

Hui Lu
Professor, Guangzhou University, China

S22: Advanced Application of Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation in Offshore Oil & Gas Engineering

S22: Advanced Application of Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation in Offshore Oil & Gas Engineering

Offshore Oil and Gas Engineering has gained continuing attention due to an increasing demand for energy and the large reserves found offshore. Unlike conventional onshore oil and gas operations which have been well developed for the past few decades, it brings unprecedented challenges due to the complexity in technology, remoteness, and harsh environment. The study of the development of offshore is crucial to tackle energy needs also to ensure safe and efficient operations.

The research pertaining to the offshore applications has been growing in the past decade covering all aspects, among which natural gas hydrate and digital solutions have been prevailing. The experimental study and numerical simulation play a paramount role to investigate the mechanisms and offer solutions.

The proposed symposium aims to invite researchers engaged in offshore oil & gas engineering to share the updated advances in computational and experimental study. The latest research findings and creative ideas will be discussed and the crossover subjects and products will be introduced for a better and wider application. By exchanging views, the industry’s current technology limits and prospects will be pointed out. The influential work will be selected for oral speaking in this symposium.

Potential topics of this symposium mainly include, but are not limited to
•Unconventional offshore production model
•Unconventional marine energy resources, e.g., natural gas hydrate, offshore wind-power, etc.
•Advances in flow assurance
•Digital solutions of intelligent technology on offshore oil & gas engineering, e.g., digital twin and smart robots , etc.
•Advances in design and manufacture for marine engineering, e.g., floating bodies, pipes, risers, electric machines, and subsea equipment like ROV and christmas tree, etc.
•Advances in matching technology, e.g., anti-corrosion, LNG & FLNG, welding, and offshore installation, etc.

Chairs:

Ning He
Professor, CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, China

Yonghai Gao
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Hui Wang
Phd, CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, China

Ye Chen
Phd, CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, China

S23: Contaminant Source Identification in Water Resources

S23: Contaminant Source Identification in Water Resources

The topic covers all methods that can be used to identify sources of contaminants in aquifers, rivers, lakes, and water distribution systems. Field-scale and watershed-scale studies can focus on a part of the environment (such as a single aquifer) or the entire environment. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, identification of contaminant source characteristics (such as spatial location of sources, release intensity, and duration of activities) using forward and backward models, inverse probability methods, simulation–optimization methods, and so on.

Chair:

Mohammad Sadegh Maleki Tirabadi
Ph.D., Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

S24: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Pore Scale Fluid Transport and Fluid-solid Interaction in Nano-scale and Micro-scale Porous Material

S24: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Pore Scale Fluid Transport and Fluid-solid Interaction in Nano-scale and Micro-scale Porous Material

Understanding the physics of fluid flow and fluid-solid interaction is necessary to elucidate the sequence of events that occurs within porous materials. Recent decades have shown a dramatic increase in interest to study and apply porous media science in various aspects of energy and environmental engineering, including groundwater remediation, geothermal energy, CO2 storage, oil & gas recovery, and fuel cells. Sustainable engineering of each one of these systems requires a pore scale understanding with which one can make predictions. The coupling between flow and deformation can give rise to a variety of complex phenomena, including changes in mechanical or transport properties, changes in size or shape which are commonly observed in subsurface porous media, gels, tissues, etc.
This symposium is dedicated to the achievements done on modeling and simulation of pore scale fluid transport and fluid-solid interaction in nano-scale and micro scale porous material with an emphasis on new numerical developments, microfluidics and nanofluidics, new physical insights, incorporation of advanced physical and chemical models, and upscaling to the continuum scale, showcasing the recent advances on pore scale fluid transport and fluid-solid interaction modelling with application to nano-scale and micro scale porous material. This symposium will cover topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following:
 1. Pore-scale to continuum-scale upscaling method
 2. Microfluidics and nanofluidics application in porous systems
 3. Poromechanics and fluid-solid interaction
 4. Molecular level modelling of fluid flow in porous material
 5. Pore scale phase behavior change
 6. Pore scale adsorption and transport process
 7. Deep learning assisted pore scale modelling method
 8. Phase field, level set and lattice Boltzmann approaches, as well as hybrid methods.
 9. Pore scale dynamic 3D imaging techniques
 10. Liquid imbibition/drying modelling in porous material
 11. Pore scale fracture propagation imaging and modelling
 12. Multiphase transport process

Keywords: Pore scale fluid transport, fluid-solid interaction, micro & nanomechanics of porous materials, numerical simulation, pore scale imaging and modelling, nano-scale and micro scale porous material

Chairs:

Wenhui Song
Associate Professor, School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Shuangmei Zou
Associate professor, School of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China

Jianlin Zhao
Associate professor, School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Shiyuan Zhan
Professor, College of Energy, Chengdu University of Technology, China

S25: Computational Geomechanics and Multiphysics Coupling in Porous Media

S25: Computational Geomechanics and Multiphysics Coupling in Porous Media

This symposium will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of-the-art in computational geomechanics, addressing the multiphysics and multiphase coupling between the linear elastic/nonlinear plastic rock deformations and processes of fluid flow, heat transfer, ions transport, etc. Meanwhile, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics push forward the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Contributions are solicited in, but not restricted to, the following topic areas: (1) development, implementation, and validation of advanced constitutive models, (2) computational models and algorithms for multiphysics problems (coupled multiphase flow and solid deformation, fracture flow, chemo-thermo-hydro-mechanics, etc.), (3) meshfree methods for large deformation problems, (4) data-driven constitutive modeling of geomaterials, (5) machine learning and physics-based models.

Keywords: Reservoir geomechanics, meshfree method, THMC, machine learning, physics-informed neural network

Chairs:

Qi Zhang
RGC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Xia Yan
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Kai Zhang
Professor, Qingdao University of Technology, China

Zhao Zhang
Professor, Shandong University, China

Yinfu Jin
Professor, Shenzhen University, China

S26: Engineering Software Development in Computational Science

S26: Engineering Software Development in Computational Science

Engineering software plays a key role in promoting the wide application of computational science. This symposium focuses on the recent advances in Engineering Software of computational science. The software can be for the purposes of education, prototyping algorithms, analysis of complex industrial problems, real time simulation, and so on. We are interested in both standalone software and the plug-in based on a well established platform.

Chairs:

Haojie Lian
Associate Professor, Taiyuan University of Technology, China

Leilei Chen
Associate Professor, Huanghuai University, China

S27: Numerical Simulation of Advanced Manufacturing Processes

S27: Numerical Simulation of Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Numerical simulation plays a significant role in advance manufacturing process, which gives an effective guidance on manufacturing process and reduce the experimental cost. This symposium aims to gather researchers to discuss the development and application of numerical simulation in advance manufacturing process, e.g. the development of multiscale and multiphysics modelling, the design and optimization of manufacturing process via numerical simulation, numerical simulation of microstructural evolution during manufacturing process, high performance computational technology of numerical simulation, durability prediction of products via numerical simulation and other new development of numerical simulation technology in advance manufacturing process. Authors with the research about the numerical simulation in advance manufacturing process are welcome to share their research in this symposium.

Keywords: Numerical simulation, advanced manufacturing process, design and optimization, durability prediction, microstructural evolution

Chairs:

Wugui Jiang
Professor, School of Aeronautical Manufacturing Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, China

Zhixin Tu
Lecturer, Nanchang Hangkong University, China

S28: Dynamics and Control of Complex Space Systems

S28: Dynamics and Control of Complex Space Systems

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of complex space systems, e.g., space telescopes, satellite antennas, solar power systems and deep space exploration transit station, which can use on-orbit assembly to construct various large space structures. In addition, small space platforms or modules can also use network topology to fully realize the complex performance of traditional large structures, and they can greatly reduce the costs and risks borne by a large complex space system, and significantly increase the flexibility and robustness of the system. Distributed space systems, e.g., constellation, cluster, swarms, fractionated satellite, and federated satellite, are typical complex space system including many flight vehicles distributed in different orbits cooperating with each other to perform a complex flight mission.
However, the main challenge of complex space systems lies in the complex dynamic coupling with the environment and inter switching topology, and multiple complex disturbances, e.g., external disturbances, model parameter uncertainties, controller’s perturbations, input delay, actuator fault signals, and other nonlinear perturbations widely act on space systems. The present generation of complex space systems should be capable of high-precision maneuvers and increased robustness to multiple complex disturbances.
The aim of this symposium is to collate original research and review articles that investigate the developments of dynamics and control of complex space systems.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
In-space assembly and construction
Topology reconstruction and optimization
Space electromagnetic docking/separation
Distributed path planning for space systems 
Spacecraft navigation, guidance, and control
Attitude dynamics, determination and control 
Flexible structure vibration isolation and suppression
Orbital game theories and applications for satellite swarms

Chairs:

Chuang Liu
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Honghua Dai
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Xiaokui Yue
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

S29: Application of Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace Guidance, Control and Trajectory Design

S29: Application of Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace Guidance, Control and Trajectory Design

Aerospace has become one of the most active and influential fields of science and technology in the 21st century. Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered as one of the three cutting-edge technologies in the 21st century. AI technology can simulate, extend, and expand human intelligence, and further assist human beings to complete tasks such as perception and decision-making that are difficult for the human brain to complete. Therefore, how to use the big data storage, perceptual learning and decision-making planning capabilities of AI to improve the existing technology in the aerospace field is a key scientific issue. The level of intelligence will greatly affect the future development of the aerospace field. Problems such as guidance, control and trajectory design are obviously related with AI. The emphasis of AI in the problems or technologies is to point out the following traits in contrast to traditional methods:
(1) AI technology can improve the orbital accuracy of rocket ascent guidance and the strike accuracy of missile terminal guidance. Meanwhile, it can improve the autonomy of cooperative tasks for aircraft cluster such as: interaction, detection, and attack.
(2) AI technology can learn through real-time interaction with the environment, so as to improve the robustness of aircraft or spacecraft control systems against external disturbances and their own perturbations, which improves its adaptability.
(3) The traditional trajectory design method has a long iteration cycle and low applicability of tasks. Combining AI technology can improve the speed of design, and meet the needs of sudden changes such as avoiding threat areas and changing target points at real time.
This symposium is to invite researchers to share their efforts in combining guidance, control and trajectory design with AI technology in aerospace field.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
1. Rocket ascent guidance and trajectory design
2. Reentry guidance and trajectory design for spacecraft or missile
3. Control technology of hypersonic vehicle
4. Formation control of multi aircrafts or spacecrafts
5. Cooperative trajectory planning for aircraft or spacecraft
6. Cooperative terminal guidance with multiple constraints
7. Spacecraft orbit maneuver, rendezvous and operation

Keywords: Guidance, control, trajectory design, aerospace, intelligence

Chairs:

Yibo Ding
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
 
Honghua Dai
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
 
Xiaokui Yue
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

S30: Computational Methods in Space Flight Mechanics

S30: Computational Methods in Space Flight Mechanics

Computational mechanics has penetrated most disciplines of engineering and science. In an era of computer and automation, computational methods not only serve as simulating auxiliary, but also shape the development of many disciplines. This trend has been significant in the space flight mechanics since the Apollo program, although the computation capability by then is trivial compared to the off-the-shelf CPUs nowadays. Problems such as space trajectory design, orbital determination are obviously related with computational mechanics. However, it is seldom bluntly mentioned that the guidance and control of spacecrafts are also tied with computation, where inherently they are all trying to seek some forms of solutions in dynamical systems. The emphasis of computation in the aforementioned problems or technologies is to point out the following traits in contrast to traditional recognition:
(1) Numerical solutions and algorithms compatible with on-board computation are replacing the closed form guidance and control methods.
(2) The state-of-art algorithms, techniques, and philosophy in computational mechanics can inspire novel thoughts and insights in computational aspects of space flight mechanics.
(3) Rather than simply solving the problems numerically via brute force. The computational efficiency, reliability, accuracy, and robustness of the solution process are crucial to practical mission. 
This symposium is to invite researchers to share their efforts in formulating, modeling, and analyzing the problems in space flight mechanics via computational methods. 

Topics to be covered involve novel computational methods in the following aspects:
1.Attitude dynamics, determination and control
2.Dynamics and control of large space structures and tethers
3.Flight dynamics operations and spacecraft autonomy
4.Orbit determination and space-surveillance tracking
5.Orbital dynamics, perturbations, and stability
6.Rendezvous, relative motion, proximity missions, and formation flying
7.Spacecraft guidance, navigation and control

Keywords: Computational guidance and control, space situational awareness, autonomous spacecraft maneuver

Chairs:

Xuechuan Wang
Assiciate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Tarek Elgohary
Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, USA

Honghua Dai
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Xiaokui Yue
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

S31: Impact Response to Materials & Structure

S31: Impact Response to Materials & Structure

Materials and structures will experience drastic impact loading under extreme conditions such as explosion and shock, which features high temperature, high strain rate and high pressure. Understanding the underlying dynamic deformation and failure mechanism is beneficial to the design of advanced materials or structures for energy absorption or impact resistance. In this section, the impact response and protection design against both velocity and heat shock will be performed using theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and experiments, starting from the polymer matrix modification, polymer nanocomposites, laminates and even metamaterials.

Keywords: Impact response, metamaterial, polymer composites

Chairs:

Weifu Sun
Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Jianxun Zhang
Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

S32: Modern Computational Methods in Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis

S32: Modern Computational Methods in Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems play important roles in many scientific and engineering fields, and modern computational methods that can simulate the strong nonlinear responses of fluid and structures are playing a role of ever-increasing importance. The main goal of this symposium is to promote the high-precision computational methods for solving responses of fluid, structures and FSI. Topics of interest of this symposium include, but are not limited to, the following aspects: Meshless methods (SPH, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics; RKPM, Reproducing Kernel Particle Method; etc.), BEM (the Boundary Element Method), Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, CEL (the Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian method), and machine learning methods.

Keywords: Fluid-structure interaction, computational methods, meshless methods, BEM, discontinuous Galerkin methods, CEL, machine learning

Chairs:

Shaofei Ren
Associate Professor, College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China

A-Man Zhang
Professor, College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China

Shiping Wang
Professor, College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China

S33: Future of Aquaculture Informatics: Simulation, Methods and Modeling

S33: Future of Aquaculture Informatics: Simulation, Methods and Modeling

Topic is related to information processing in Aquaculture, but are not limited to, the following aspects:
• Simulation, optimization, modeling, and automated control;
• Decision support systems, intelligent systems, and artificial intelligence;
• Machine vision, computer vision, image processing and automation, and imaging technologies for Aqacultural problems such as fish growth, disease, water quality etc.;
• Advanced computational approaches for solving aquacultural problems;
• Intelligent instruments, robotics, and co-robotics for aquaculture;
• Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for sensing, imaging, and aquacultural applications;
• Smart sensors, biosensors and bioelectronics, innovations for chemical and biological sensing, sensors, and automation and control systems for aquaculture.

Chairs:

Shahbaz Hassan
Lecturer, College of Information Science and Technology, Zhongkai University of Agricultural and Engineering, China

Jianjun Guo
Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, China

Shuangyin Liu
Professor, College of Information Science and Tchnology, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, China

S34: Robust and Scalable Linear Solvers for Multiphysics Problems

S34: Robust and Scalable Linear Solvers for Multiphysics Problems

A broad range of multiphysics simulations is underway in the computational and engineering science community, as researchers increasingly confront questions about complex physical systems characterized by multiple interacting physical processes that have traditionally been considered separately. Accurate and efficient solutions to complex physical systems are significant in the domains of scientific prediction, engineering design, and policy making.
 
In particular, consistent implicit discretizations and suitable coupling schemes are paramount to accurate solutions. Implicit discretizations of multiphysics problems will introduce ill-conditioned linear systems. Coupling individual simulations may introduce limitations on stability, accuracy, or robustness that are more severe than the limitations imposed by the individual components. The main goal of this symposium is to promote the state-of-the-art iterative solvers for algebraic systems arising from multiphysics problems and to discuss the modern tools for implementing these solvers.

Keywords: Multiphysics problems, large-scale simulation, linear solvers

Chairs:

Chensong Zhang
Associate Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jinchao Xu
Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Pengtao Sun
Professor, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA

Shihua Gong
Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

S35: Computer Modelling and Simulation in Fire Science and Engineering

S35: Computer Modelling and Simulation in Fire Science and Engineering

As the constantly accelerating process of urbanization in the world, the urban population has risen dramatically along with the expansion of cities. In recent years, a number of high-profile accidental fires have occurred throughout the world. Many of these fires grew rapidly and caused tremendous deaths and injuries and severe damage to the building structures. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research in the field of fire science and engineering and the prevention and control of fires are seriously needed. With the development at full speed of computer technology, the computer tools become the typical approaches and have been widely applied to the fire problems. In order to make some progress in this area, this symposium focuses on the contents of the study of fire science and engineering with the approach of computer modelling and simulation, including the wide range of urban tunnel fires, high-rise building fires, compartment fires, electrical fire, new energy fire, fire control and suppression, fire spread and growth, etc.

Keywords: Fire control, fire suppression, smoke movement, flame spread, tunnel fire, high-rise building fire

Chairs:

Haowei Yao
Associate Professor, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China

Zihe Gao
Professor, Zhengzhou University, China

Lin Jiang
Associate Professor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

S36: Optimization Design & Simulation of Composites and Structures

S36: Optimization Design & Simulation of Composites and Structures

The focus of the symposium is on the optimization design and simulation of advanced polymer/metal matrix composites, with length scales from nano, over micro and meso to full product/structure level. Targeted research dealing with mechanical issues and performances with an emphasis on multi-scale simulation or advanced experimental approaches to the study of novel composites with significant potential for engineering applications are very encouraged. Topics of key interest include all aspects related to design, validation, characterization/testing, performance and application of composite materials, including (but not limited to) nanocomposites, structural and functional composites, novel composite material concepts, and also green and bio-based composites.

Keywords: Advanced composites, optimization design, multiscale characterization, numerical simulation, strength and failure

Chairs:

Liang Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Wu Xu
Associate Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Liaojun Yao
Associate Professor, Department of Astronautics Science and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

S37: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Meteorological Resources and Disasters

S37: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Meteorological Resources and Disasters

The seminars will be organized around the following topics: computer modeling and simulation of meteorological disasters, computer modeling and simulation of water disasters, and related disaster prevention and mitigation engineering. We will explore the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning or deep learning methods to characterize the physical mechanism and causes of meteorological disasters, model and simulate the physical process of floods and droughts, and discuss the application of engineering technology related to meteorological and water disasters. In addition, technical discussions based on meteorology and hydrology will be carried out in conjunction with hot issues such as climate change and the global high temperature and heat wave in 2022.
Potential topics of this symposium mainly include, but are not limited to
 - Extreme weather monitoring, early warning and forecast
 - Meteorological derived disaster
 - Space weather disaster monitoring and prediction
 - Floods and droughts
 - Urban water resources crisis
 - Climate change with renewable energy technologies
 - Meteorological and hydrological observation based on Remote Sensing
 - Disasters and human security

Keywords: Climate change, meteorological resources and disasters, water calamities, machine learning, extreme weather

Chairs:

Lifeng Wu
Dr. Nanchang Institute of Technology, China

Sien Li
Professor, China Agricultural University, China

Junliang Fan
Professor, Northwest A&F University, China

Yaokui Cui
Assistant Professor, Peking University, China

Wenzhi Zeng
Associate Professor, Wuhan University, China

Guomin Huang
Assistant Professor, Nanchang Institute of Technology, China

S38: Modeling of Failure of Materials and Structures in Engineering

S38: Modeling of Failure of Materials and Structures in Engineering

Modeling of failure of materials and structures has been an active and persistent challenge in computational mechanics and various scientific and industrial fields. This mini-symposium provides an informative and stimulating forum to enhance the academic communications on this challenging topic, and focuses on the developments and applications of computational theories, numerical methods, models and algorithms for modeling failure of materials and structures. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
1. Researches on failure mechanism and numerical analyses
2. Multiscale models and methods for deformation and failure analysis
3. Fluid-structure-interaction, thermo-mechanical coupling, and other multi-physics fracture modeling
4. Dynamic fracture studies
5. XFEM and phase field method as well as other continuous and discontinuous methods for fracture modeling
6. Peridynamics, meshfree/particle-based methods, and non-local methods for failure modeling
7. Data-driven computational mechanics and modeling
8. Engineering fracture analysis
9. Other newly developed computational theories and methods for damage, failure and fracture modeling

Keywords: Material failure, multiscale, fluid-structure-interaction, multi-physics, dynamic fracture

Chairs:

Lisheng Liu
Professor, Wuhan University of Technology, China

Dan Huang
Professor, Hohai University, China

Ziguang Chen
Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Xin Lai
Associate Professor, Wuhan University of Technology, China

S39: Advances in Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Cyber-physical Systems (CPS)

S39: Advances in Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Cyber-physical Systems (CPS)

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are complex dynamical systems that combine both physical (plant, process, network) and cyber (software, decision making algorithm, computation) components, whose operational evolutions are monitored, integrated, coordinated, and controlled by computing and control units. CPS exists in a wide variety of technological applications, such as intervention (e.g., collision avoidance); precision (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-level manufacturing); operation in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., search and rescue, firefighting, and deep-sea exploration); coordination (e.g., air traffic control, war fighting); efficiency (e.g., zero-net energy buildings); and augmentation of human capabilities (e.g. in healthcare monitoring and delivery). Since the correct functioning of such systems is often safety-critical, their formal modeling and analysis (including reliability analysis) is of utmost importance. Ensuring reliability in CPS remains one of the most challenging problems in both academia and industry. CPS failures may occur due to the heterogeneous nature and inherent interconnection of the cyber/physical components and their behaviors, as well as the complex interaction between the discrete/continuous dynamics. Cyberattacks can also lead to CPS failures, as such attacks can generate (or intentionally change) events that transit – via communication and control layers – from one component (sensor, actuator) to another, and lead to executing operational sequence of events making the system to reach a dangerous or unsafe state. Hardware failures and malfunctions, and human intervention errors can also lead to CPS failures.

This Symposium aims to collect new contributions in the area of modeling, simulation, control, and reliability analysis of cyber-physical systems, ranging from the introduction of a new appropriate set of concepts and techniques to their practical implementation and applications with a particular emphasis on applied aspects.
 
 Potential topics of this symposium mainly include, but are not limited to:
 Heterogeneous design of cyber-physical systems;
 Multi-Paradigm Modelling of cyber-physical systems;
 Reliability analysis of cyber-physical systems;
 Co-simulation of cyber-physical systems;
 Embedded design for cyber-physical systems;
 Control of cyber-physical systems;
 Formal verification of cyber-physical systems.

Keywords: Cyber-physical systems, modeling, simulation, control, formal verification

Chair:

Ayman Aljarbouh
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

S40: High Temperature Strength and Experimental Technologies

S40: High Temperature Strength and Experimental Technologies

Facing the frontier exploration of aerospace science and the development of major equipment, high temperature strength and experimental technologies are the most important and urgent problems in aerospace field. The forum, theming “High Temperature Strength and Experimental Technologies”, grasps the latest progress in cutting-edge technology research of high temperature strength and innovative technology application of experimental technologies, promotes the cooperation and exchange of key technologies at home and abroad, and guides the accelerated breakthrough of high temperature strength of materials and related experimental technologies.

Keywords: High temperature strength, experimental technologies, thermal barrier coatings, ceramic matrix composites

Chair:

Xueling Fan
Professor, Laboratory for Extreme Environmental Serviceability and Protection Technologies, School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

S41: Extremely Low-Power Communication for 6G

S41: Extremely Low-Power Communication for 6G

The rapid development of real-time Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications including green infrastructure, smart grids, smart city, intelligent transport networks, etc. enables Green communication between tens of billions of end devices such as wearable devices and sensors. The forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) experiences a new paradigm shift from connected things” to “connected intelligence”, which has limitations on spectrum, energy, cost and size. Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) and Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) I have been identified as the promising technologies to meet the above demands. AmBC is attractive because it does not require a dedicated RF carrier emitter. Instead, it exploits ambient signals from existing wireless infrastructure and devices, such as radio towers, television (TV) towers, cellular base stations, and wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access points. In addition, RIS can facilitate the reconfiguration of the wireless propagation environment by steering the incident signal through beamforming. Therefore, AmBC and RIS have attracted wide range of research from both academia and industry.
 
The goal of this research topic is to solicit original research papers, bringing together academic researchers and industrialists to report recent research advances in AmBC and IRS for 6G. The scope, mode, and quality of services can be greatly improved by AmBC and IRS enabled 6G, which has effectively promoted intelligent development and helped use limited resources more efficiently. In light of the future interest in critical 6G-enabled holographic communication, this Special Issue welcomes research that discusses channel modeling, fading performance analysis, transmission scheme design, resource allocation, and communication protocols of AmBC and IRS for 6G and to envision new research directions in the emerging fields of research.
 ● Modelling and statistical characteristics for AmBC/RIS of 6G
 ● Information-theoretic foundation of AmBC/RIS for 6G
 ● Waveform design, modulation, and coding for AmBC/RIS ofr 6G
 ● Scheme design for AmBC/RIS of 6G
 ● Resource allocation for AmBC/RIS of 6G
 ● Channel state information acquisition for AmBC/RIS based wireless networks
 ● Algorithms and protocols design for AmBC/RIS based wireless networks
 ● Hardware architectures and designs for AmBC/RIS 
 ● Artificial intelligence for AmBC/RIS enabled wireless networks
 ● Integration of AmBC and/or RIS with state-of-the-art wireless technologies (e.g., NOMA, massive MIMO, physical layer security, millimeter wave communication, cognitive radio, cooperative communication, energy harvesting)

Keywords: 6G, ambient backscatter communication, intelligent reflecting surface, artificial intelligence

Chairs:

Xingwang Li
Associate Professor, Henan Polytechnic University, China

Khaled Rabie
Associate Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Basem M. ElHalawany
Associate Professor, Benha University, Egypt

Gaojian Huang
Lecturer, Henan Polytechnic University, China

Wali Ullah Khan
Research Fellow, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Galymzhan Nauryzbayev
Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

S42: Advanced Industrial Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Data Analysis and Optimization

S42: Advanced Industrial Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Data Analysis and Optimization

Nowadays, with the developments of smart manufacturing, various data can be collected more comprehensively and extensively than before. How to analysis the potential benefit from the data to improve the optimization or decision making of the manufacturing system becomes important. The Artificial intelligence (AI) methods based on data has become the hot point and it has been widely investigated from both the academic and industrial fields. AI can mine the valuable information from industrial data to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the industrial manufacturing system.
Recently, advanced AI techniques have been developed and they have shown their potential. The proposed Special Issue on Advanced Industrial Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Data Analysis and Optimization will focus on the theories, methodologies and applications of the AI techniques in smart manufacturing. The special issue is encouraging to use the advanced AI techniques to handle with the full life-cycle data in intelligent manufacturing with different application scenarios, such as scheduling, quality control and fault diagnosis.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
  • Advanced industrial AI theories and methodologies
  • AI-based industrial data preprocessing, modeling, analysis and decision-making
  • AI-driven methods for optimization of the manufacturing system
  • AI-driven methods for intelligent equipment operation
  • AI-driven methods for product quality control
  • AI-driven methods for full life-cycle product design
  • AI-driven methods for imbalanced data in intelligent manufacturing
  • AI-driven methods for small-scale samples in intelligent manufacturing

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, smart manufacturing, deep learning, workshop scheduling and optimization

Chairs:

Long Wen
Professor, China University of Geosciences, China

Dazhong Wu
Professor, University of Central Florida Orlando, USA

Junliang Wang
Professor, Donghua University, China

Yiping Gao
Dr., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

S43: Intelligent Transportation Systems

S43: Intelligent Transportation Systems

Intelligent connected vehicles,
Traffic Planning using big data, etc
Smart transportation infrastructures
Comprehensive transportation hub

Chair:

Mingwei Hu
Professor, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, China

S44: Inverse Problem in Engineering

S44: Inverse Problem in Engineering

Inverse problem refers to inferring model parameters from observations. For instance, the elastic property distribution of soft tissues is of great importance in disease diagnosis and development. However, the ill-posedness nature of inverse problem and noise in the measurements make it highly challenging to solve. In this symposium, we will focus on the development of the investigation on inverse problem in engineering.
Topics to be considered are related to the different challenges posed by inverse problems, such as:
optimization based inverse approaches
model fitting against uncertain experimental results
uniqueness of identified parameters
uncertainty quantification in inverse problems
full-field strain and displacement measurements
digital image/volume correlation techniques
in vivo identification using medical imaging
virtual fields method (VFM)
regularization methods
machine-learning and data-driven techniques in identification problems

Chairs:

Yue Mei
Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

Yiqian He
Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

Jie Liu
Professor, Hunan University, China

Bo Yu
Associate Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China

S45: Advances in Security and Privacy for Reliable Industrial Internet of Things

S45: Advances in Security and Privacy for Reliable Industrial Internet of Things

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connects existing isolated industrial systems into an integrated network for promoting automation and productivity in critical infrastructure. Especially, computational intelligence on individual systems and active data exchanges highly facilitates the smart manufacturing. However, many IIoT networks currently suffer from many risks and vulnerabilities due to the network communication. For example, the interconnected IIoT is easily transformed to botnets once one of the inner industrial systems is infected with malware. In addition, data communication between the individual systems can be easily intercepted and forged by attackers. These threats make IIoT not increases the actual benefits but compromise of the industrial products. Hence, the practical smart manufacturing calls for a reliable IIoT. Ensuring the reliability of the IIoT involves all aspects in the network, including software development and deployment, infrastructure design, and communication techniques, etc.
 
This symposium focuses on recent progress in reliable industrial Internet of Things, and the original research outputs on all aspects regarding algorithms, architectures, software, devices are welcomed.
 
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
- Trust computational frameworks for IIoT
- Anolomy detection for IIoT
- Privacy-preserving smart infrastructure for IIoT
- Blockchain-enabled communication security for IIoT
- Malicious activity detection tools for IIoT
- Fault tolerance mechanisms for IIoT
- Cloud-based and edge-based solutions for IIoT
- Data security and protection for IIoT

Keywords: Industrial Internet of Things, privacy protection, reliable computation, data security, system

Chairs:

Xiong Luo
Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Jiankun Sun
Dr., University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

S46: Practice of Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Geotechnical Engineering

S46: Practice of Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Geotechnical Engineering

Due to the complexity and uncertainty of geotechnical materials, traditional theories are often incapable of simulating and predicting geotechnical problems. In recent years, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence and big data technology, artificial intelligence technology has been widely used in the field of geotechnical engineering. To this end, this symposium collects the latest research results and viewpoints of influential researchers in this field, introduces the latest research progress in this field, and hopes to help us quickly understand related research work and facilitate researchers to conduct discussions. It is expected to promote basic research and technological innovation in this field and provide scientific basis and technical support for the realization of intelligent geotechnical engineering.
 
Potential topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to: (1) Metaheuristics and their applications in intelligent automation and global optimization: Evolutionary Algorithms, swarm intelligence, nature and biologically inspired metaheuristics, etc. (2) Traditional machine learning methods, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), genetic programming (GP), evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR), support vector machines (SVM), and random forest (RF); (3) Deep learning and real world applications, such as deep neural networks (DNN), convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN), etc.; (4) Aspects of software engineering, e.g. intelligent programming environments, verification and validation of AI-based software, software and hardware architectures for the real-time use of AI techniques, safety and reliability; (5) Big data analytics; (6) Industrial experiences in the application of the above techniques, e.g. case studies or benchmarking exercises.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, geotechnical engineering, big data

Chairs:

Xiangsheng Chen
Professor, Shenzhen University, China

Dong Su
Professor, Shenzhen University, China

Hao Xiong
Associate researcher, Shenzhen University, China

S47: Advanced Computational and Experimental Methods for Gear Dynamics Assessment

S47: Advanced Computational and Experimental Methods for Gear Dynamics Assessment

Geared transmissions are prone to harmful vibrations and annoying noise emissions. The sources of origin of those oscillations are various and different in nature, for example torque fluctuations from the energy supplier, the unsteady aerodynamics in wind turbines, the intrinsic characteristic of meshing gears to name a few. Electrification and increase of power density impose to gearboxes new challenges in terms of noise emission and durability. New strategies must be developed for better simulating the dynamics that the new generation of gearboxes will experience. In the proposed symposium contributions regarding the improvement of gearbox design are sought, aside to computational techniques and experimental methodologies for evaluating the gearbox dynamic behavior.

Keywords: Gear dynamics, static transmission error, dynamic transmission error, elasticity, tribology, contact analysis, Elasto-hydro-dynamic lubrication, numerical methods

Chairs:

Carlo Rosso
Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Italy

Stephanos Theodossiades
Professor of Dynamics, Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, 
Loughborough University, UK

S48: Mechanics and Design of Micro/Nano Hierarchical Materials

S48: Mechanics and Design of Micro/Nano Hierarchical Materials

Micro/nano hierarchical materials are constructed using microscopic building blocks (e.g., low-dimensional materials). The progress of micro/nano hierarchical materials in recent years has greatly expanded the investigation to a highly diverse and strongly multidisciplinary area. Micro/nano structural materials can extensively take advantage of the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of micro/nanoscale units, achieving more excellent mechanical properties and functions compared to traditional materials. It offers strategic opportunities to design advanced structural and functional materials for irreplaceable applications under extreme conditions. We need to note that in this field there are many emerging mechanical and physical problems beyond traditional cognition. To achieve superior mechanical properties and functions, it is full of necessity to propose new mechanical models and design principles considering the hierarchical microstructures and interfaces, as well as new physics and mechanical mechanisms at the atomistic scale. The topics of this symposium focus on the multiscale mechanics and design of micro/nano hierarchical materials, mechanics of low-dimensional materials and nanodevices, solid-liquid interfacial mechanics, mass transfer under nanoconfinements, and so on.

Keywords: Multiscale mechanics and design of micro/nano hierarchical materials, mechanics of low-dimensional materials and nanodevices, solid-liquid interfacial mechanics, mass transfer under nanoconfinements

Chairs:

HengAn Wu
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China

FengChao Wang
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China

YinBo Zhu
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China

S49: Emerging Computational Intelligence Techniques for Automated Disease Diagnosis

S49: Emerging Computational Intelligence Techniques for Automated Disease Diagnosis

Computational intelligence has proven its potential in almost all the real-life areas for solving a wide variety of real life problems. In the medical field, there is always a need for fast and accurate diagnosis of infections within the body. Medical imaging proven to be the best suitable and trustable measure for the diagnoses in major of the medical areas. These diagnoses utilize the medical images for getting the insights of the abnormalities in the human body. An automated technique of diagnosis can improve the quality of diagnosis decisions and is independent of the experience and knowledge of the person providing the diagnosis. Although, there are still a variety of challenges with these automated diagnosis systems. The symposium aims to provide a powerful forum for the researchers, scientists, scholars, academicians, and practitioners all over the world from academia, and industry for presenting their papers on the recent developments in the field of computational intelligence and the allied topics. This shall bring together the leading scientists, researchers to explore their innovations and novel ideas and provide the platform for exchanging their experiences related to the topic. As the topic proves to be a good interdisciplinary platform for the scholars in the field to present their innovations, recent trends and challenges related to computational intelligence in automated diagnosis. Potential topics include, but not limited to the following; 
• Emerging computational intelligence techniques for automated diagnosis 
• Machine learning and intelligence 
• Applied mathematics and optimization techniques for automated diagnosis 
• Deep learning solutions for diagnosis 
• Improved classification algorithms for disease diagnosis. 
• Challenges in multiclass classification in medical field. 
• Hybrid and efficient approaches for medical diagnosis.

Keywords: Computational intelligence, medical diagnosis, machine learning, deep learning, AI

Chairs:

Nilkanth Deshpande
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecommunication, Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil College of Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University and Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), India

Shilpa Gite
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University) and Symbiosis Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Lavale, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), India

Biswajeet Pradhan
Distinguished Prof. & Director, Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial Information Systems, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Earth Observation Centre, Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

S50: Computational Methods for Solving Nonlinear Problems of Engineering Structures

S50: Computational Methods for Solving Nonlinear Problems of Engineering Structures

Engineering structures, such as large span roof systems, bridges, buildings, offshore platforms, floating wind turbines, submerged floating tunnels, pressure vessels, car and aircraft structures, etc. can behave nonlinearly depending on their geometry, materials, loading and boundary conditions. The development of reliable and efficient solution procedures is crucial for a trustworthy structural analysis of complicated engineering structures. Researchers who have gone deeper into this subject are aware that many challenges still exist, such as construction of shell finite elements for large deformation analysis of folded and multi-branch shells, advanced co-rotational approaches for large displacement and rotation analysis of plates/shells, preventing the locking phenomena in triangular plate/shell element, modeling of sandwich and laminated shells, solving fluid-structure interactions involving beams/rods/cables or plates/shells, modeling of materials with enhanced performance characteristics, recognizing structural and material inhomogeneity, simulating fracture mechanical properties of concrete beams and plates, predicting crosswind-induced derailment of train-rail-bridge system, and analyzing stochastic stability of an inclined stay cable under random and periodic support motion excitations, etc.
 
Topics of interest for this symposium include, but are not limited to: plate/shell or beam finite element formulations using advanced formulations; novel elements with fine convergence and computational accuracy; large deformation analysis of folded and multi-branch shells; static and dynamic instability; fluid-structure interaction; structural reliability analysis; imperfection sensitivity and reliability; failure simulation of structures under extreme loading conditions; effects of structural and material inhomogeneity; multi-scale and multi-phase composite materials; vector form intrinsic finite element method; finite elements based on partition of unity enrichment techniques, e.g. the X-FEM and G-FEM; meshfree and particle methods, and other advanced finite element procedures for large displacement and large rotation analysis. High-quality review papers on computational approaches for complicated engineering structures are also welcome.

Keywords: Plate/shell or beam element, locking problems, folded and multi-branch shells, large rotation analysis, stability analysis, fluid-structure interaction, structural reliability analysis, non-linear material behavior, internal inhomogeneity, multi-scale structures, multi-phase materials, fluid-structure interaction, composite structures, structural failure simulation, vector form intrinsic finite element method, meshfree and particle methods, coupling of finite element and meshfree methods

Chairs:

Yuanfeng Duan
Professor, Zhejiang University, China

Zhongxue Li
Associate Professor, Zhejiang University, China

S51: Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Unconventional Reservoirs

S51: Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Unconventional Reservoirs

Unconventional oil/gas resources have become significant contributors to global hydrocarbon production in the past two decades and continue to grow in importance for the next few decades. Due to the complex pore structures and geological storage in unconventional rocks, it remains challenging to describe and model multiphase flow and transport in unconventional reservoirs. Therefore, new multiscale, multiphase, and multiphysics transport modelling methods are being continuously developed to describe these complex flows within them.

This Special Issue aims to cover the recent advances and challenges for modelling flow and transport for unconventional reservoirs, including shale gas/oil, coal seam gas, tight gas/oil, gas hydrate, etc. Papers that apply cutting-edge technologies and novel techniques to investigate flow and transport in unconventional reservoirs, case studies, and comprehensive overviews are all welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:
• Reservoir characterization
• New simulation methods
• Multiphase flow
• Multiscale modelling
• Multiphysics modelling
• immiscible flow
• Rock–fluid interface interactions
• Pore network modelling/Lattice Boltzmann modelling
• Machine learning and big data applications for unlocking new insights in unconventional reservoirs production

Chairs:

Jianchao Cai
Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Yongfei Yang 
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

S52: Computational and Experimental Methods in Biomedical and Biomechanics Engineering

S52: Computational and Experimental Methods in Biomedical and Biomechanics Engineering

This symposium aims to provide a means of communicating the advances being made in the area of computational biomechanics and biomedical engineering with the emphasis being placed on biomechanics. Authors and presenters are invited to participate in this symposium to present the state-of-the-art computational aspects of biomechanics and simulation in both engineering and clinical scenarios.
Topics (not restricted to):
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Mechanics of biological tissue, organ systems and biomaterials
  • Material identification and inverse problems
  • Electromagnetic Imaging and inverse problems
  • Human body movement, motion analysis and impact
  • Cell mechanics, mechanotransduction, and computational mechanobiology
  • Computer-assisted surgery and simulation
  • Biofluids and hemodynamics
  • Modeling, design and assessment of medical devices and implants
  • Imaging and its application in biomechanics and biomedical engineering 
  • Joint and ligament mechanics
  • Multiscale and Multiphysics modeling
  • Injury and Damage Biomechanics

Keywords: Biomedical imaging, biomedical devices, biomechanical systems, electromagnetic imaging and inverse problems

Chair:

Lulu Wang
Professor, Biomedical Device Innovation Center, Shenzhen Technology University, China

S53: Metamaterial Structures

S53: Metamaterial Structures

Metamaterials are a type of new and artificial materials, exhibiting many excellent and even exotic behaviors that have never been observed or realized in natural materials. Their unique advantages over traditional materials makes metamaterials a highly promising candidate for developing novel structures in various engineering fields such as civil, aerospace, mechanical, marine engineering, etc. The main theme of this symposium is dedicated to the recent advances in the design, modelling and experimental study of metamaterial structures, the mechanisms behind their exotic behaviors, and their applications in a broad spectrum of experimental and computational. The topics of particular interest of this special issue include (but not limited to):
• Novel metamaterial engineering structures
• Seismic metamaterial structures
• Mechanical metamaterial structures (negative Poisson’s ratio, negative stiffness, etc.)
• Acoustic metamaterials
• Thermal metamaterials
• Metamaterial structures for vibration suppression/attenuation
• Metamaterial structures for impact mitigation
• Metamaterial structures for energy harvesting
• Metamaterial structures with enhanced sensing
• Metamaterial structures for wave manipulation
• Metasurfaces and metabarriers and their applications in engineering structures

Keywords: Smart materials, metamaterial, auxetic, mechanical properties, engineering structures

Chair:

Xin Ren
Professor, Nanjing Tech University, China

S54: Numerical and Experimental Study on Vehicle Aerodynamics

S54: Numerical and Experimental Study on Vehicle Aerodynamics

In recent years, the energy efficiency and legislative requirements for the reduction in carbon dioxide and other emissions has become a worldwide hot topic. Vehicle aerodynamics plays a significant role in saving energy for future requirements of a climate-friendly environment. Its main goals are reducing the aerodynamic drag, aerodynamic noise and other causes of aerodynamic instability at high speeds. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research in the field of numerical and experimental study on vehicle aerodynamics. In order to make certain progress in this area, this symposium focuses on the contents of the study of vehicle aerodynamics with either numerical or experimental approach, including the aerodynamic drag reduction, vehicle aeroacoustics, wake flows, and thermal management, etc.

Keywords: 
Aerodynamic drag reduction, vehicle aeroacoustics, wake flows, thermal management

Chairs:

Tian Li
Associate Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Tiantian Wang
Associate Professor, Hunan University, China 

Zhenxu Sun
Associate Professor, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

Haichao Zhou
Professor, Jiangsu University, China

S55: Numerical Calculation, Principle Experiment and Manufacturing in Ocean Engineering

S55: Numerical Calculation, Principle Experiment and Manufacturing in Ocean Engineering

Marine engineering is a comprehensive engineering technology oriented to marine development, marine utilization and marine protection, which is of great significance to national economic development and modernization of national defense construction. It involves many disciplines such as manufacturing, structural design, artificial intelligence, environmental survey, automation and automatic control. Numerical calculation, simulation experiments and manufacturing are important components in marine engineering and key technologies to solve practical problems, and they finally make it possible to understand the ocean.
 Recognizing the growing importance and interest of numerical calculation, principle experiment and manufacturing in ocean engineering, ICCES will issue an innovative research paper on advanced computing methods and more efficient algorithms. At the same time, we particularly welcome comments describing the current state of technology.

Keywords: Structural design, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, experimental processing, engineering calculation, environmental survey, automatic control and automation

Chairs:

Dongyan Shi
Professor, College of Mechanical and Electrical, Harbin Engineering University, China

Jinghua Li
Professor, College of Mechanical and Electrical, Harbin Engineering University, China

Zhixun Yang
Professor, College of Mechanical and Electrical, Harbin Engineering University, China

S56: Multidisciplinary Simulation and Optimization of Complex Products

S56: Multidisciplinary Simulation and Optimization of Complex Products

Mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and control coupling simulation and modeling
Computer experiment sampling
Surrogate model
Parallel optimization
Digital design
Multi-objective optimization
Nonlinear model construction

Keywords: Complex product, design, optimization, simulation, surrogate model

Chairs:

Yunbao Huang
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Precision Electronic Manufacturing Technology and Equipment, Guangdong University of Technology, China

Pu Li
Associate Professor, Shaoguan University, China

S57: Mechanical and Physical Properties of Carbon-based Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites

S57: Mechanical and Physical Properties of Carbon-based Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites

Carbon-based nanomaterials and nanocomposites possess excellent mechanical and physical properties which render them promising engineering materials. This symposium will present the most recent advances in the modelling and experimental research works of these materials, and provide a valuable opportunity for interacting with experts and researchers from related fields. 

Keywords: Carbon nanomaterials, carbon nanocomposites, mechanical properties, physical properties

Chairs:

Lichun Bai
Professor, School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, China

Bo Liu
Professor, Hunan University, China

S58: Digital Twins for Eco-design, Reusability and Recycling of Batteries for Promoting Circular Economy

S58: Digital Twins for Eco-design, Reusability and Recycling of Batteries for Promoting Circular Economy

The main theme is to promote the development of AI, IoT and Cloud computing based systems and their applications in Energy Systems such as Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems .
 
In this smposium, the focus shall be on use of methods for making digital twins’ such as AI algorithms, robotics, advanced sensors, software’s, 5G, cloud computing, blockchain, big data, etc for three purposes: eco-design, reusability and recycling of batteries.
 
For eco-design, the design methodologies such as topology optimization, adaptable designs, etc. shall be promoted for newer designs of battery packs having fewer components so that battery packs can be easily recycled.

For reusability of batteries, AI algorithms along with image processing shall be applied for predicting residual energy in the spent batteries so that expert decisions (second life in hybrid storage or recovery of materials) for reusability can be taken in an efficient way.

For recycling, advanced hydrometallurgical processes shall be developed. In brief, the technologies based on digital twins can promote the battery circular economy and to some or greater extent reduce the dependence of vital raw materials for manufacturing the batteries.

Topics includes but not limited to the following:
1. Applications of AI algorithms, machine learning, cloud computing, 5G, communication devices, etc for eco-design, residual energy prediction and recovery of materials from spent battery packs.
2. Topology design optimization and adaptable design for battery packs.
3. Intelligence and Automation in recycling of battery packs.
4. Remaining useful life prediction of Li-ion cells.
5. Supply-chain, logistics and scheduling aspects of Li-ion cells for circular economy
6. Life cycle assessment and management of batteries for circular economy.
7. Remanufacturing, recycling and reusability of the spent batteries.
8. Reusability of batteries for its second-life or end-of-life use.
9. Spent batteries for renewable energy storage systems.
10. Hydrometallurgical, chemical and pre-treatment processes for recovery of battery materials
11. Non-destructive technologies for Remaining useful life of Li-ion cells
12. Economic, cost-benefit analysis and feasibility of recycling of spent batteries 

Keywords: Batteries, battery packs, battery recycling, battery design, battery modelling, battery models, empirical models, battery life, battery thermal management

Chairs:

Liang Gao 
Professor, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

Akhil Garg
Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

S59: Fracture Phase Field Method and Its Applications

S59: Fracture Phase Field Method and Its Applications

Pioneered by Francfort and Marigo, the phase-field theory avoids the tracking of mobile sharp crack surfaces, replacing the otherwise implied boundary conditions with a partial differential equation that governs the evolution of time- and space-dependent functions (phase-field). The governing equation of the phase-field is devised to guarantee that the motion of the diffused interfacial region complies with the prescribed physical laws, e.g., the Griffith’s brittle fracture theory. In this sense, the phase-field theory indeed serves as a regularized mathematical interface, which incorporates the complex sharp crack surface into a spatially smooth continuum scheme, and facilitates finite-element-based numerical implementations in a straightforward manner. In addition to the theory’s successful application to classical mechanical problems, e.g., composite delamination, functionally graded materials, rock fracture, large strain fracture of polymer, and interfacial fracture of concrete, the theory has been extended to many multi-physics problems, including hydrogen embrittlement, cement hydration, stress corrosion, Li insertion, coupled fluid–structure fracture, and polymer oxidative aging, etc.
 
After twenty year of Bourdin’s fundamental work on the fracture phase field, we initiate this Symposium to report and discuss recent progress in various aspects of variational fracture method.
 
Topics of interest include (but not limit to)
1. Phase field model for multi-physical problems
2. High performance computing strategies for phase field
3. Multi-scale modeling within the framework of phase field
4. Complex fracture prediction by phase field
5. Engineering computing and application of phase field

Chairs:

Lu-Wen Zhang
Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Yongxing Shen
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Hongjun Yu
Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Bin Li
Assistant Professor, Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China

Jianying Wu
Professor, South China University of Technology, China

S60: Data Science for Lives: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, and Population Dynamics

S60: Data Science for Lives: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, and Population Dynamics

Enabled by high-throughput sequencing technologies, we have witnessed the growth of life science data in recent years. To address the data growth, a multitude of data science techniques have been heavily developed with broad impacts across different life science disciplines, resulting in personalized medicine in the near future. In this symposium, we would like to solicit contributions on a broad range of life science topics including (but not limited to):

• Bioinformatics
• Computational Biology
• Medical Informatics
• Health Informatics
• Population Dynamics
• Biomedical Text Mining
• Biomedical Engineering
• Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• Single-cell Transcriptomes
• Gene Regulation Data Science
• Gene Expression Data Science
• Deep Learning in Life Science
• Other Interesting Topics in Life Science

Keywords: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, DNA, RNA, Protein, Epigenetics, Medicine, Health, Engineering, Informatics.

Chairs:

Ka-Chun Wong
Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong, China

Xiangtao Li
Professor, Jilin University, China

Shankai Yan
Associate Professor, Hainan University, China

Shixiong Zhang
Associate professor, Xidian University, China

S61: Mechanics in Micro nano Fluidics and Fluid-Solid Interfaces

S61: Mechanics in Micro nano Fluidics and Fluid-Solid Interfaces

Research on microfluidics, nanofluidics and lab‐on‐a‐chip has advanced rapidly over the past several decades. It has become a cutting‐edge subject and has great application potential in biochemistry, human health, new energy, advanced materials, and so forth. From the perspective of hydrodynamics, on the one hand, fluidic devices enable us to obtain unprecedented ability to manipulate the microfluid and the transport of micro/nano particles in the fluid. On the other hand, micro/nano fluids show flow characteristics and laws different from those at the macro scale. In-depth exploration of related flow mechanisms and the fluid-solid interface is the premise and basis for realizing micro/nano flow and transport control. Thus, the topics of this symposium covers topics contributing to a better understanding of micro/nano-fluidic systems, solid-fluid interfaces, nanostructures and their mechanism and applications, also including the atomic and molecular level of material properties determined with specific surface analytical techniques and/or computational methods, as well as the processing of such structures. Potential topics of this mini- symposium include but are not limited to:
1. Micro/nano-fluidic mechanism in lab-on-a-chip applications
2. Mechanics in surface engineering and functionalization of solid-fluid micro/nano-systems, including confined fluids
3. Micro/nano-scale functional surfaces/interfaces and coatings for flow transport or fluid control
4. Surface/interface nanotechnology and devices in micro/nanofluidic systems
5. Mechanical properties of novel functional nanostructured materials (including low-d carbon) in fluid-solid coupled systems 6. Novel computational method, and measurement & characterization technologies in micro/nano-fluidics
7. Fundamental principles of micro- and nanoscale fluid phenomena like, flow, mass transport and reactions
8. Motion behaviors of micro- and nanoscale droplets or bubbles on the nanostructured or functional surfaces

Chairs:

Zhong-Qiang ZHANG
Professor, Institute of Intelligent Flexible Mechatronics, Jiangsu University, China

Hongfei Ye
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, China

S62: Recent Advances in Deep Learning of Biomedical Signal Processing

S62: Recent Advances in Deep Learning of Biomedical Signal Processing

Deep learning (DL) is a research topic that attracts a lot of attention from researchers in both academia and industry. DL methods have demonstrated their superiority in training deep neural network models using large-size data sets to traditional machine learning methods.
The accelerating power of DL in diagnosing disease and analyzing medical data will empower physicians and speed-up decision-making in clinical environments. The applications of modern medical instruments and the digitalization of medical care have generated large amounts of biomedical information in recent years. However, new DL methods and computational models for efficient data processing, analysis, and modeling with the generated data are essential for clinical applications and understanding the underlying biological process.
This symposium will present DL's latest theoretical and practical applications in biomedical signal processing.

Keywords: Deep learning; artificial intelligence; image processing; optimization

Chairs:

Yudong Zhang
Professor, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK

Muhammad Attique Khan
Professor, Department of Computer Science, HITEC University Taxila, Taxila, Pakistan

Shuwen Chen
Professor, School of Physics and Information Engineering, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing, China

S63: Cyberspace Resources Mapping and Situation Awareness

S63: Cyberspace Resources Mapping and Situation Awareness

Cyberspace mapping mainly refers to the use of network exploration, acquisition, or mining technologies to obtain various attributes of physical resources such as servers, routers, terminal devices, and virtual resources such as users and services under the Internet environment. Through effective localization and analysis methods, real resources are mapped to geographic space, virtual resources are mapped to social space, and the detection results and mapping results are plotted, to intuitively reflect the attribute, status, development trend, etc. of cyberspace resources.

Cyberspace breaks through traditional space and time constraints. Because the host role is unknown and the connection changes dynamically, it is difficult to determine the network attribute, social attribute, and geographical location of network resources. The symposium will be organized around the following topics: virtual resource discovery, target network structure characteristics analysis, network landmark mining and evaluation, IP target positioning, instant messaging user location estimation, social network user location inference, etc. We will explore such key issues as how to efficiently and accurately detect and identify cyberspace resources and their attributes, how to achieve accurate mapping between cyberspace and geographic space, and how to achieve accurate correlation between cyberspace and social space. Specifically, potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. New models and methods in cyberspace mapping
2. Cyberspace data collection and analysis
3. Multimedia encryption and forensic
4. Covert communication for new network scenarios
5. Privacy protection and digital forensics
6. Cyberspace situational understanding
7. Machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval for network relationship understanding
8. Network situational assessment and prediction
9. Visualization and interaction method of cyberspace situation
10. Possible threat judgment and early warning in cyberspace

Keywords: Cyberspace mapping; Situational awareness; Cyberspace data collection and analysis; Cyberspace situational understanding; Network possible threat warning

Chairs:

Xiangyang Luo
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, China
Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness of Henan Province, China

Chunfang Yang
Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, China
Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness of Henan Province, China

Jiangtao Ma
Associate Professor, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China

Yaqiong Qiao
Lecturer, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, China

Yi Zhang 
Lecturer, State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, China
Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness of Henan Province, China

S64: Reliability Analysis of Composite Structure

S64: Reliability Analysis of Composite Structure

Composite structures have excellent damage tolerance, outstanding structural efficiency, and good design ability, which is widely used in aerospace structural components. With the improvement of equipment performance, the reliability of Composite structure is increasingly becoming a topic of concern. Because of the complexity of composites design and the diversity of composite materials, its failure mechanism is very complex, and its reliability analysis is faced with great challenges. It involves not only such as layer angle and layer thickness, but also the influence of other parameters, such as fiber volume fraction and fiber distribution mode of composite materials. In addition, the dispersion of materials is an important factor restricting the reliability of composites. Therefore, we need to carry out failure mechanism research, and quantify the uncertain factors of design, molding, machining, and assembly for composites, and then develop reliability analysis methods to improve the reliability of composite structures.
This Symposium will focus on the failure behaviors and mechanical properties of composite structures and the reliability analysis model. New experimental techniques and theoretical studies on these fields are highly welcome in this symposium.

Keywords: Composite structures, structural reliability, uncertainties analysis, composite failure mechanism, reliability test

Chairs:

Feng Zhang 
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Guijie Li
Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

XiaoXiao Liu
Associate Professor, Xi’an University of Technology, China

Junqing Yin
Assistant professor, Xi'an Polytechnic University, China

Feifei Zhao
Assistant professor, Xidian University, China

S65: Advances in BIE/BEM in Memory of Professor Subrata Mukherjee

S65: Advances in BIE/BEM in Memory of Professor Subrata Mukherjee

This symposium is dedicated to Professor Subrata Mukherjee who was a pioneer in the boundary integral equation and boundary element methods (BIE/BEM), among others. The symposium welcomes all researchers in the fields of BIE/BEM and other mesh- reduction methods to discuss the recent progresses in those fields. Researchers from all countries around the world are cordially invited to participate in this symposium. Presentations dealing with aspects of the BIE/BEM formulations, solution methods and applications are welcome. Topics will include, but are not limited to:
* New discretization and fast solution methods in BIE/BEM (such as IAG, fast direct solvers, fast multipole methods, ACA methods, and others);
* BIE/BEM combined with innovated new multi-scale methods such as peridynamics (PD) and phase-field methods;
* Machine learning (ML) with the BIE/BEM and other mesh reduction methods;
* Multiscale Green’s functions and applications with the BIE/BEM;
* Large-scale, multi-scale and multi-physics modeling using the BIE/BEM;
* Modeling of acoustic, elastodynamic and electromagnetic waves and applications in designing various metamaterials using the BIE/BEM;
* Fracture and fatigue analysis using the BIE/BEM with other approaches;
* Software development and industrial applications of the BIE/BEM.

Keywords: Boundary integral equation (BIE); Boundary element method (BEM); IAG BEM; Fast direct solvers; Fast multipole methods; ACA methods; Machine learning with BEM; Coupling of BEM with Peridynamics

Chairs:

Yijun Liu
Chair Professor, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

Ernie Pan
Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Xiaowei Gao
Professor, Dalian University of Technology

Haibo Chen
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

Wenjing Ye
Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Jianming Zhang
Professor, Hunan University

Yang Yang
Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

S66: Damage Modelling of Engineering Structures: From Localized Cracking to Structural Collapse

S66: Damage Modelling of Engineering Structures: From Localized Cracking to Structural Collapse

Starting with localized cracking and ending with structural collapse, the progressive failure of engineering structures is usually governed by damage evolution at different levels. To this end, theoretical models and numerical methods for predicting the damage behavior of structures play increasingly important roles in the design of structures, although their current status lags far behind engineering practices. This symposium aims to promote collaborations among academic researchers and industrial engineers in developing and applying damage models and related numerical methods to the prediction of nonlinear behavior of engineering structures. Those who have been working in related fields are cordially invited to exchange their ideas and research outcome in this mini-symposium.

Keywords: Damage models, numerical methods, progressive failure, cracking, collapse

Chairs:

Xiaodan Ren
Professor, Department of Building Engineering School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China

Tiancan Huang
Lecturer, Guangzhou University, China

S67: Metallic Materials and Structures — Mechanical Properties, Deformation Mechanisms, and Fabrication

S67: Metallic Materials and Structures — Mechanical Properties, Deformation Mechanisms, and Fabrication

Metallic materials and structures of high-performance mechanical properties are highly desired in engineering applications, and their development synergistically integrates mechanics, design, and fabrication. This symposium aims to bring together researchers to share and discuss their research and ideas on all mechanical aspects of metallic materials and structures across a wide range of length-scales and from various perspectives, focusing on underlying mechanisms and engineering applications. Fundamental research and practical applications are both welcome. 

Specific topics of interest for metallic materials and structures include, but are not limited to: 
• Theoretical modeling, computational simulations, and experimental characterization 
• Behaviors and mechanisms of plastic deformation, fracture, instability, creep, fatigue, etc. 
• Design methodology and applications 
• Advanced manufacturing mechanics and techniques

Chairs:

Xin Yi
Associate Professor, Peking University, China

Xiaoding Wei
Associate Professor, Peking University, China

Sheng Mao
Assistant Professor, Peking University, China

Huiling Duan
Professor, Peking University, China

S68: Machine Learning and Public Safety

S68: Machine Learning and Public Safety

With the rapid and comprehensive development of artificial intelligence technology and the advancement of urban digitization, intelligence, and globalization, social security incidents are characterized by large numbers and high frequencies. At the same time, digital technology has more closely and frequently bound the relationship between people and things in many fields. Problems such as incomplete social security risk perception and in-depth risk analysis cognition have become important challenges in the social security risk governance process, and put forward new requirements for the digital technology of social security governance. The seminars to be held mainly focus on public safety prevention and control, industry supervision, emergency management and other fields, mainly involve risk identification of community safety and food and drug safety. Discuss how to achieve accurate prediction of safety risks, with a view to improving the city's intelligent early warning capabilities and digital governance levels for public safety risks in communities, roads, food and medicine, and other scenarios. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: 
1. Pedestrian Detection 
2. Vehicles detection and recognition 
3. Artificial intelligence and public safety 
4. Public security prevention and control 
5. Emergency management 
6. Computer vision and multimedia technologies 
7. Urban surveillance super-resolution 
8. Other theories and methods related to public security governance

Chairs:

Liguo Zhang
Prof., College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, China

Sizhao Li
Prof., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Jianguo Sun
Prof., Xidian University, China

Chunjun Zheng,
Prof., Dalian Neusoft University of Information, China

S69: From Peridynamics to Peri-continuum Mechanics

S69: From Peridynamics to Peri-continuum Mechanics

Peridynamics is a novel computational method in mechanics. The classical continuum mechanics establishes the governing differential equations based on the celebrated "infinitesimal element'' method in mathematics that can be dated back to the birth of differential equation theory. In contrast, peridynamics considers the continuum to be a collection of peridynamic particles that are interacting with each other by long-range forces. By doing so, peridynamics becomes a nonlocal mechanics theory that is fundamentally different from the classical continuum mechanics, with both evident and potential advantages in solving fracture problems in engineering structures.

However, current peridynamics is still in its infant stage because it needs to solve some problems to become a fully advanced continuum mechanics theory: (1)it lacks consistent constitutive relations within the theory itself, and (2) the meso-scale damage model still can not fully reflect the characteristics of multi-scale physics of fracture, and (3) the intrinsic relations between bond-based and state-based theories are still vague. 

This mini-symposium invites contributions on recent developments on the peridynamic theory that deepens understanding on peridynamic constitutive relations and damage models, and applications in engineering areas. 

Keywords: Peridynamics, peridynamic constitutive relations, damage model

Chairs:

Haicheng Yu
Assistant Professor, College of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, China

S70: Microstructures-Mechanical Behaviors Relation of Advanced Materials: Characterization, Multiscale Modelling and Constitutive Laws

S70: Microstructures-Mechanical Behaviors Relation of Advanced Materials: Characterization, Multiscale Modelling and Constitutive Laws

To adapt different service environments, such as extreme high and cryogenic temperatures, intense magnetic field, high irradiation, high strain rate and pressure, the corresponding served advanced materials are generally designed with different and complex microscale microstructures, which influence their mechanical behaviors significantly. The present symposium aims to gather researchers and graduate students with different scientific discipline backgrounds to report the latest research in the microstructures-mechanical behaviors relation. The experimental characterizations by the latest technology, multiscale simulations including molecular modeling, discrete dislocation dynamics, phase field modeling, crystal plasticity calculation and so on, theoretical analysis, as well as the development of microstructure-informed constitutive laws under different harsh enviorment will be covered. Authors are cordially invited to share their cutting-edge research in this symposium. 

Keywords: Material microstructures, mechanical behaviors, multiscale modelling, constitutive laws, Experimental characterizations, Extreme service enviorment, advanced materials

Chairs:

Minsheng Huang
Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Yaxin Zhu
Associated Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Xu Zhang
Professor, SouthWest JiaoTong University, China

Qihong Fang
Professor, Hunan University, China

Haidong Fan
Professor, Sichuan University, China

Haofei Zhou
Professor, Zhejiang University, China

S71: Particle-based Numerical Methods: Theory and Applications

S71: Particle-based Numerical Methods: Theory and Applications

Mesh-based methods are the most widely studied and applied numerical methods and are widely adopted in commercial software. However, at present, the development of mesh-based methods has reached its limit and has received challenges in many fields of research. Thus, many particle-based methods are developed to expand the numerical methods library. The particle-based method does not rely on meshes and is suitable for dealing with large deformation and multi-material coupling problems. In recent years, particle-based methods have made great progress, their theoretical basis is becoming more and more rigid, and their application scope is becoming more and more extensive.

Topics of this mini-symposium will include, but are not limited to:
(1) the latest theoretical innovations of particle-based methods, such as novel numerical schemes, novel numerical techniques, the coupling of different methods, etc.
(2) the application of particle-based methods in engineering, such as ocean engineering, polar engineering, vehicle engineering, etc.

Keywords: Particle-based methods, Numerical simulation, High-order schemes, Multi-material interaction, Computational hydrodynamics

Chairs:

Yuxiang Peng
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Pengnan Sun
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Niannian Liu
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Wenhua Xu
Postdoc, South China University of Technology, China

Qi Zhang
Ph.D., Harbin University Engineering, China

S72: Composite Structures Incorporating High-performance Materials

S72: Composite Structures Incorporating High-performance Materials

The advancement of composite structures could significantly contribute to the green society development in the current era. Recent years have seen an accelerated upsurge in the use of composite members in various structural applications such as high-rise buildings, long-span bridges and offshore platforms. The infrastructure development sector becomes more passionate for high performance composite structures with high-performance materials, innovative member profiles and efficient structural layouts. This symposium aims to discuss the recent advances on composite structures using high-performance materials (e.g., high-strength steel, stainless steel, FRP, green and high-performance concrete, etc.), innovative member profiles and structural layouts. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject.

Keywords: Composite structures, green materials, high-performance materials, structural design, structural performance

Chairs:

Fengming Ren
Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, China

Mianheng Lai
Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University

S73: Recent Development of Novel Materials and Structures — Experiments, Computations, and Mechanics

S73: Recent Development of Novel Materials and Structures — Experiments, Computations, and Mechanics

Developing novel materials and structures other than traditional concrete and steel is an important issue in civil engineering. Currently, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) and ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) are the primary novel materials and achieved many successful applications in the newly-built and retrofitting structures. In the area of academic research, many innovative structural forms enabled by FRPs and UHPC are being explored. The mini-symposium is dedicated to the recent development, scientific progress, and applications of novel materials and structures. The contributions dealing with the mechanics of materials and structures by experiments, numerical simulations, and other research methods (e.g., machine learning) are welcomed. 

Topics of interest for this mini-symposium include but are not restricted to: 
•FRP structures 
•UHPC structures 
•Green construction materials 
•Design and analysis of novel structures (e.g., bridges, buildings, ballastless track, etc.) 
•Experiment, field test, and long-term monitoring of complex bridges and structures 
•Simulation of novel structures during the process of design and construction 
•Other analysis methods in mechanics (e.g., machine/deep learning, big data, etc.)

Keywords: Novel structures, novel materials, FRP, UHPC, experiments, simulation

Chairs:

Miao Su
Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, China

Hui Peng
Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, China

Bin Yan
Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, China 

Jiangfang Chang
Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

S74: Data Security and Privacy Protection in Digital Twins

S74: Data Security and Privacy Protection in Digital Twins

Digital twinning is a digital representation of a specific physical entity or process that has a data connection. At present, digital twins are applied to aerospace, electric power, urban management, agriculture, oil and gas, health care, environmental protection, and other industries, especially in the field of intelligent manufacturing, digital twin is considered to be an effective means to realize the interactive integration of the manufacturing information world and the physical world. Digital twin technology has been developed for many years, but it has not been widely developed so far. Digital twins have many hurdles to overcome before their full potential can be realized, with data security and privacy protection being the main issues to be addressed. As a large amount of data is involved, it brings risks to sensitive system data. Moreover, the infrastructure of the original system involved in digital twins is mostly simple devices closed for a long time, and devices lacking security measures are vulnerable to network attacks after networking. Therefore, it is a big challenge to ensure privacy protection and data security in digital twins.

This mini-seminar aims to bring together global experts who are committed to the research of digital twinning, privacy protection, etc., to share the latest research results in related fields, and exchange views on the development and application of these results. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Authentication, authorization and accountability in DT
Applied cryptography in DT
Blockchain in DT
Database security in DT
Digital forensics in DT
Intrusion detection in DT
Malware analysis and detection in DT
Mobile security in DT
Network security and privacy in DT
Privacy enhanced technology in DT
Artificial intelligence in DT

Chair

Hu Xiong
Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

S75: Computational Methods and Modeling Techniques in Natural Hazards Engineering

S75: Computational Methods and Modeling Techniques in Natural Hazards Engineering

This symposium aims to bring a broad discussion on the recent development of computational modeling techniques in natural hazards engineering. The fast development of computational techniques has improved the accuracy and efficiency of the analysis of hazardous processes, including landslides, tsunamis, earthquakes, storms, and so on. Advanced numerical methods including particle-based methods, high-resolution/high-order grid-based methods, and strong-stable discretization methods have also been continuously improved and developed to improve the modeling accuracy for natural hazards problems.

Topics of interest of this symposium include, but are not limited to:
Mathematical models based on differential equations
Data-driven natural hazards modeling
Particle flow modeling in natural hazards engineering
Fluid-Soil/ Fluid-Structure Coupling 
Mesh-free methods 
High-order/high-resolution methods
Interface/free surface tracking methods
Artificial intelligent methods

Chairs

Dianlei Feng
Professor, Tongji University, China

Xiaoliang Wang
Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Xingyue Li
Professor, Tongji University, China

Xiannan Meng
Professor, Dalian Maritime University, China

S76: Advances in Rock Mechanics Experiment and Numerical Simulation of Deep Reservoirs

S76: Advances in Rock Mechanics Experiment and Numerical Simulation of Deep Reservoirs

With the increase of the exploitation depth of resource and energy (coal, coalbed methane, shale oil/gas, geothermal energy, natural uranium), the reservoir development under various engineering disturbance conditions (tunnel excavating, hydraulic fracturing, enhanced oil/gas recovery, in-situ leaching, etc.) is confronted with complex geo-mechanical problems. The interdisciplinary subject of rock mechanics, rock dynamics, multi-phase mechanics, and geohazard mechanics is required to handle these engineering difficulties. Thoroughly understanding the evolution behavior and mechanism of reservoirs is of vital importance for the safe and efficient development of deep resources and energy. 

The symposium aims to invite researchers to share the latest achievements in indoor experiments, field tests, numerical simulation methods in rock mechanics related to deep reservoirs. Topics of interest for this symposium include but are not limited to:

(1) Experiment and numerical simulation methods of rock mechanics
(2) Rock mechanical properties of deep reservoirs
(3) Multi-field and multi-phase coupling mechanism and simulation
(4) Mechanism of rock damage and permeability improvement under blasting 
(5) Fracture propagation and control under hydraulic fracturing
(6) Multi-scale fracture characterization of damaged rock

Keywords: Rock mechanics; Deep reservoirs; Multi-field and multi-phase coupling; Rock damage; Permeability

Chairs

Hui Zhou
Professor, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wei Wang
Professor, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

Dawei Hu
Professor, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jiangfang Chang
Associate professor, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

Rui Song
Associate professor, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Qinghe Niu
Lecturer, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

Yongxiang Zheng
Lecturer, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

S77: Applications of Composites for Construction: Strengthening and New Structures

S77: Applications of Composites for Construction: Strengthening and New Structures

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) is a high-performance composite material with many advantages (e.g., high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent corrosion and fatigue resistance). FRP was initially used in the field of aeronautics and astronautics. The last two decades, with increasing demands on sustainable structures and materials around the globe, have witnessed booming research and applications of FRP in construction and/or infrastructure areas.

This symposium aims to provide a platform for reporting and discussing the technical advances, including but not limited to numerical, theoretical and experimental studies and practices in engineering applications, for the following areas: 

1) FRP materials/products/technologies for strengthening of aged infrastructure;
2) FRP materials/products/technologies for novel structures;
3) All-FRP structures;
4) Hybrid composite structures incorporating FRP;
5) Textile composites for novel structures.

Chairs

Guangming Chen
Professor, South China University of Technology, China

Qian-Qian Yu
Associate Professor, Tongji University, China

S78: Advances in Fluid-Structure Interaction in Biological Systems

S78: Advances in Fluid-Structure Interaction in Biological Systems

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) in biological and bio-inspired systems is currently attracting significant attention from researchers in fluid mechanics and related fields due to its importance for fundamental understanding and practical applications. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together experts from different disciplines to discuss the latest advancements, challenges, and potential in the area of FSI in biological systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: biological motion and propulsion; complex flows and particle transport in biological and biomedical systems; bioinspired energy harvesting, drag reduction, flow control; and innovative experimental, numerical, and analytical methods in FSI.

Keywords:
cilia and flagella;
aquatic and aerial locomotion;
biomimetic propulsion and robots;
bioinspired fluid dynamics;
cardiovascular fluid mechanics;
laryngeal aerodynamics and vocal-fold vibration;
bioinspired flow control;
bioinspired energy harvesting;
multiphase fluid-structure interaction;
analytical, numerical and experimental methods for FSI systems;
artificial intelligence for FSI optimization and control

Chairs

Haibo Huang
Professor, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Wei-Xi Huang
Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China

Haibo Dong
Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

Yongliang Yu
Professor, School of Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jian Deng
Professor, Department of Mechanics, Zhejiang University, China

Fangbao Tian
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW, Canberra, Australia

Gaojin Li
Associate Professor, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Xueguang Meng
Associate Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Jialei Song 
Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, China

Ze-Rui Peng
Associate Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Peng Yu
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanics & Aerospace Engineering, South University of science and technology, China

Ye Chen
Associate Professor, Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, China

S79: Smart Concrete, New Functionalities and Nanotechnology

S79: Smart Concrete, New Functionalities and Nanotechnology

Cement-based concrete is the most used construction material in the world, ubiquitous in most of the infrastructures. Concrete infrastructure, however, is at the risk of premature failure when the degradation of concrete compromises their serviceability and reliability. The risk stems from complex interactions between concrete and the service environment, absence of advanced design and condition assessment approaches, and timely preservation or maintenance. Significant efforts are needed to maintain the aging infrastructure at a serviceable and safe state. Recent advances in nanotechnology and bio-concrete hold great promise to address these issues and potentially adding new functionalities and yet unexplored areas of self-sensing and self-healing properties. Examples of intelligent materials include concrete capable of sensing the variations of environmental and loading conditions and adopt suitable responses by altering one or more working parameters during their service life.

Keywords: Smart concrete, nanotechnology, nanocomposite, fabrication, properties, smart structure, self-sensing, self-healing, self-cleaning, energy-harvesting, energy-storage, electromagnetic-shielding

Chairs

Wengui Li
Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Wenkui Dong
Postdoctoral Researcher, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Fulin Qu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

S80: AI Applications in the Built Environment

S80: AI Applications in the Built Environment

Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and Internet of things (IoT) technologies are slowly changing the traditional ways of handling smart civil and infrastructure, smart city and smart environment design, construction and maintenance. Examples of AI-empower smart building and environment applications include autonomous vehicle/robots, smart building/city design, smart sensing system for environment, smart facility management, smart building maintenance, etc., where the AI, ML and IoT techniques are involved in difference stages of building, internal and external environment life-cycles, including design, construction and maintenance stages. The following is a non-exclusive list of topics relevant to the Mini-Symposium:
  • Sensing data for infrastructures;
  • Information modeling for smart city;
  • Automatic/robotic device;
  • Human-computer interactions in civil engineering;
  • AI in construction management technologies;
  • AI for smart environment design, construction and maintenance.
  • Sensing data applications in smart environment.
  • IoT equipped architecture, planning and engineering.
  • Recent developments of Internet of things (IoTs) technology in smart building and smart environment.
  • Big data analysis for building and facility management.
  • Artificial intelligence methods in building operation and maintenance.
  • Smart and sustainable cities.
  • AI technologies for the smart environment.
  • AI in infrastructure and civil constructions.

Keywords: AI, Smart Building, Smart Environment, Sensor Networks, IoT, Smart City, Big Data Analysis

Chairs

Ke Yan
Assistant Professor, Department of the Built Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Vincent Gan
Assistant Professor, Department of the Built Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore

S81: Advanced Theories/Methods/Softwares Applied in Aeroelasticity and Aerothermoelasticity

S81: Advanced Theories/Methods/Softwares Applied in Aeroelasticity and Aerothermoelasticity

Manuscripts are solicited on topics related to advanced theories、methods and sofwares applied for analysis of Aeroelasticity and Aerothermoelasticity, including but not limited to: 
1.Theories, Analytical and Experimental Methods for Aeroelasticity/Aerothermoelasticity 
2.Studies Focusing on Nonlinear Panel Flutter and Typical Aircrafts 
3.Reduced-Order Modelling for High-Dimensional Systems involving Aeroelasticity 
4.Computational Fluid/Structural/Thermal Dynamics (CFD/ CSD/ CTD) Softwares Applied to Aeroelasticity/Aerothermoelasticity 5.Coupling Strategies for Fluid-Structure-Thermal Interaction in Aerothermoelasticity 
6.Applications of Aeroelasticity in the Design of Aircrafts

Keywords: Aeroelasticity; Aerothermoelasticity; Fluid-structure-thermal coupling; Analysis

Chair

Dan Xie
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
S7: Symposium on Advances in Virtual Testing, Simulations and Predictive Methods in Creep, Fatigue, and Environmental Cracking

S8:  Advances in Modelling, Simulation and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

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Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) are complex dynamical systems that combine both physical (plant, process, network) and cyber (software, decision-making algorithm, computation) components, whose operational evolutions are monitored, integrated, coordinated, and controlled by computing and control units.
Cyber-physical systems exist in a wide variety of technological applications, such as intervention (e.g., collision avoidance); precision (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-level manufacturing); operation in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., search and rescue, firefighting, and deep-sea exploration); coordination (e.g., air traffic control, warfighting); efficiency (e.g., zero-net energy buildings); and augmentation of human capabilities (e.g. in healthcare monitoring and delivery). Since the correct functioning of such systems is often safety-critical, their formal modeling and analysis (including reliability analysis) are of utmost importance. One of the most challenging problems in the domain of cyber-physical systems is the heterogeneity of their components (such as sensors, actuators, signal processing units), which makes modeling and automated model processing difficult. To date, no unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques, and tools exist for such systems. Individual (mechanical, electrical, network or software) engineering disciplines only offer partial solutions for the design of cyber-physical systems. 

This Symposium aims to collect new contributions in the area of modeling, simulation, and control as well as reliability analysis of cyber-physical systems, ranging from the introduction of a new appropriate set of concepts, techniques to their practical implementation and applications with a particular emphasis on applied aspects.

The topics of research areas covered for this Symposium are:
  • Heterogeneous design of cyber-physical systems;
  • Multi-Paradigm Modelling of cyber-physical systems;
  • Reliability analysis of cyber-physical systems;
  • Co-simulation of cyber-physical systems;
  • Embedded design for cyber-physical systems;
  • Control of cyber-physical systems;
  • Formal verification of cyber-physical systems.


Keywords
Cyber-physical systems, modeling and simulation, control, reliability analysis, formal verification, embedded design.

Organizer
Ayman Aljarbouh
Assistant Professor, University of Central Asia, ayman.aljarbouh@ucentralasia.org


International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences