The ASME Design Automation Committee invites papers in all areas of design automation related to mechanical systems. Papers with examples from industrial practice are encouraged. Suggested technical areas for paper submissions are listed below. Papers in other areas of design automation are also welcome. The deadline for submission is February 6, 2009.

• Application-Tailored Optimization Methods
• Artificial Intelligence in Design
• Automated Assembly Design
• Conceptual Design Methods
• Concurrent/Collaborative Design
• Data-Driven Risk Management for System Design
• Decision Making in Engineering Design
• Decomposition Methods in Design
• Design and Development of Reconfigurable Systems
• Design for Market Systems
• Designing for Human Variability
• Design Languages and Grammars
• Design of Multiscale Engineering Systems
• Design Optimization Algorithms
• Direct Digital Manufacturing
• Geometric Modeling and Algorithms for Design and Manufacturing
• Innovative Industrial Applications, Developments, and Perspectives
• Managing Design and Analysis Processes
• Metamodel-Based Design Optimization
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
• Multi-objective Optimization
• Multi-physics, Multi-scale Modeling
• Optimal Design in/of Energy Systems
• Product and System Optimization
• Product Family and Product Platform Design
• Service Design Strategy and Optimization
• Simulation-Based Design Under Uncertainty
• Structural/Topology Optimization and its Applications
• System of Systems Design and Optimization
• Validating Predictive Models in Engineering Design Under Uncertainty
• Visualization and Virtual Reality in Design
• Web-Based Design and Optimization

Panel Sessions are being organized for the 2009 Design Automation Conference.

If you are interested in organizing a Panel Session at 2009 DAC, please send your name, affiliation, and email address to

Ashwin P. Gurnani

How to Submit a Paper

All papers must be submitted electronically as PDFs by February 6 , 2009 as instructed by the conference website.

Papers will be reviewed simultaneously for presentation at the conference and publication in the CD-ROM conference proceedings. All papers are accepted based on peer-reviews of original full-size manuscripts. Resubmissions will not be considered.

The conference publication schedule can be found here.

Creating PDF Files: PDFs can be created by either using Adobe Acrobat or converting a PS file to a PDF file using Ghostscript or similar software. Click here to learn more about creating PDFs.

Sample Papers

These papers have been posted with the permission of ASME and are to be used as references only. They are intended to demonstrate the technical merit, potential impact, completeness, length, and clarity in writing of a high quality DAC paper.

More details on paper formatting instructions.