Call for Papers
The 9th ETRIA World TRIZFuture Conference is organized in co-operation with the `Politehnica’ University of Timisoara and the University of Craiova, in Romania. The conference with the theme `Innovative product design’ will take place from November 4th - 6th, 2009 to Timisoara, in Romania.
Papers are invited from prospective authors from industry, universities and research institutes. Contributing papers can cover theoretical and experimental TRIZ research, educational aspects, tools and techniques, as well as case studies. Both technology and non-technology related papers are welcome. The conference plans academic sessions, practitioner sessions, poster presentations and presentation of TRIZ software tools.
Please submit an abstract (500 words maximum) of your paper indicating the title, a brief biography and the complete address of the author(s) - before April 1st, 2008 to the address of the organizing committee. In order to give ample space to networking and discussion, it is planned to organize an extended poster session during the whole conference. Kindly inform us if you are interested in presenting your paper also as a poster or only as a poster.
Conference Organization
ETRIA - European TRIZ Association (http://etria.net/portal/)
Prof. Gaetano Cascini - chair
Prof. Denis Cavallucci
Prof. Joost Duflou
"Politehnica" University of Timisoara (http://www.upt.ro)
Prof. George Draghici – local co-chair
Prof. Anca Draghici
Dr. George Belgiu
Dr. Ion Grozav
Dr. Eugen Pamintas
Dr. Cristian Turc
Felicia Banciu
University of Craiova (http://www.ucv.ro)
Prof. Simona Mariana Cretu – local co-chair
Prof. Marin Bica
Conference Sponsorship
The TRIZFuture Conference 2009 is sponsored by :
CIRP, the International Academy for Production Engineering (http://www.cirp.net/)
AUIF, the Academic Association of Manufacturing Engineering (http://www.eng.upt.ro/auif/index.html)
INPRO, the National Research Network for Integrated Product and Process Engineering (http://www.eng.upt.ro/inpro/index.html)
Scientific Committee (to be confirmed)
Prof. A. Albers, University Karlsruhe, Germany
Prof. D. Cavallucci, INSA Strasbourg, France
Prof. G. Cascini, Univ. of Florence, Italy
Prof. S. Cretu, University of Craiova, Romania
Prof. U. Cugini, Politech. of Milan, Italy
Prof. R. De Guio, INSA Strasbourg, France
Prof. G. Draghici, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Prof. J. Duflou, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Prof. N. Leon-Rovira, ITESM Tecnologico de Monterrey,Mexico
Prof. U. Lindemann, Techn. University Munich, Germany
Prof. H. Meerkamm, University Nurnberg-Erlangen,Germany
Prof. G. Moehrle, University Bremen, Germany
Prof. C. Rizzi, Univ. of Bergamo, Italy
Prof. M. Sawaguchi, SANNO Institute of Management,Japan
Prof. G. Schuh, University Aachen (RWTH), Germany
Prof. T. Tomiyama, TU Delft, Netherlands
Prof. J. Vincent, Open University Bath, UK
Prof. F. van Houten, University of Twente, Netherlands
Prof. R. Roy, Cranfield University, UK
Prof. F. Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. T. Kjellberg, KTH, Sweden
Dr. D. Lutters, University of Twente, Netherlands
Dr. M. Bonnema, University of Twente, Netherlands
Dr. T. Vaneker, University of Twente, Netherlands
Important Dates
April 1st, 2009 Deadline for abstracts
April 30th, 2009 Notification of acceptance call for full paper (or poster)
June 1st, 2009 Deadline full paper
July 15th, 2009 Comments by the reviewers
Sept 15th, 2009 Amended version of the full paper
Information
Website : http://etria.net/portal/ ;
http://www.eng.upt.ro/trizfuture2009/
E-mail : tfc2009 at eng.upt.ro
We are waiting to see you in Timisoara !
Local Organizing Committee
Prof. George Draghici
