CALL FOR PRESENTATION/POSTER ABSTRACTS - PACE

2013 PACE Global Annual ForumJuly 22 – July 25, 2013Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USACALL FOR PRESENTATION/POSTER ABSTRACTSAbstract Submissions due Monday, March 11, 2013PACE invites authors from PACE Institutions and PACE Companies to submitabstracts pertaining to areas of interest to the PACE community for oral presentationsor posters to be presented at the 2013 PACE Global Annual Forum at Art Center Collegeof Design in Pasadena, California, USA on July 22 – July 25, 2013.PACE-related technical and case study presentations, posters, and papers from academia andindustry are invited. Faculty, administrators, graduate students, undergraduates, and industryrepresentatives are all encouraged to submit. Of particular interest are those presentations,posters, and/or papers related to PACE projects, initiatives specific to PACE software, ProductLifecycle Management (PLM) activities specific to PACE, inter- and intra-university collaborativeactivities, related products or issues in industry, and curriculum development and integration.The submissions accepted for oral presentations will be divided into three or four categories or“tracks” which may include one or more of the following: Curriculum, Engineering,Manufacturing Engineering, Creative/Industrial Design, or Collaboration.All submitted abstracts are peer reviewed, and a limited number will be invited for oralpresentations and/or posters during the PACE Annual Forum. Abstracts that are not acceptedfor an oral presentation may be invited to participate in the poster display session. The posterdisplay session is provided for shorter topics or topics that are targeted to a select audience.Authors selected for oral presentation or poster need to confirm by May 10, 2013 that they willattend the conference or risk losing their time slot to another presenter.Please submit your abstract on or before March 11, 2013 via the submission websitehttp://www.openconf.org/PACEforum2013. To prepare your abstract, download the abstracttemplate file available on the submission website. All abstracts should be submitted asMSWord DOC or Adobe PDF files. Abstracts should be no more than two pages, and are to besubmitted using the abstract template file. The preferred length of an abstract is 150-350 words.Authors of a limited number of submitted abstracts will be invited to prepare a paper for aspecial issue of the Computer Aided Design and Applications journal. To be considered forjournal invitation, authors must select a submission type that states “Journal Invitation” whensubmitting their abstract. (Note: Authors not wishing to be considered for journal invitation arenot required to prepare an actual paper.) Upon reviewer recommendation, all qualified paperswill be permanently archived in the journal Computer Aided Design and Applications. Toview previous PACE Annual Forum papers that were published in the Computer Aided Designand Applications journal, refer to http://www.cadanda.com/PACEconference.html. Paperssubmitted for journal publication are required to be formatted using the MS Word template found

2013 PACE Global Annual ForumJuly 22 – July 25, 2013Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USACALL FOR PRESENTATION/POSTER ABSTRACTSat http://www.cadanda.com/CADandA_Newtemplate.doc. Authors with accepted papers mustassign copyright to the journal publisher.Submission Types: Authors may submit their abstract in one of the following categories: Consider for Oral Presentation and Journal Invitation Consider for Oral Presentation only Consider for Poster and Journal Invitation Consider for Poster onlyPAMD Project Teams: The 2012-2013 PACE Portable Assisted Mobility Device (PAMD)Global Project Teams are NOT required to submit an abstract for the team presentations for theCompetition Judging; these presentations do NOT require an abstract. However, team membersthat wish to be considered for an additional, more in-depth, oral presentation as part of theTechnical Session (NOT part of the PAMD project competition), or wish to display a poster inthe Poster Session need to submit an abstract for consideration.CIC Project Teams: The 2012-2013 PACE Collaboration and Innovation Challenge (CIC)Project Teams who wish to display a poster in the Poster Session and to submit a paper to beconsidered for journal publication need to submit an abstract for consideration.Deadlines & Important Dates:Abstracts for presentation and posters due to PACE Office ....................... March 11, 2013Final decisions and comments sent to all submitters .................................. April 15-19, 2013Acceptance/confirmation due back to PACE Office from authors ............... May 10, 2013Posters and presentation slides due to PACE Office .................................. June 28, 2013Final papers due to PACE Office (if applicable).......................................... August 23, 2013