Organized by Special Speakers Farrokh Sassani The University of British Columbia Prof Ali Javan, MIT, USA Mehrdad Saif Simon Fraser University Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA Hamid Garmestani Georgia Tech Conference Venue City impressions Vancouver Sponsors Bernhard Wielage Chemnitz University of Technology Madjid Fathi University of Siegen Chairs Important Dates Paper Submission: May 10, 2008 Exhibition: May 10, 2008 Notification: May 26, 2008 Early Registration: June 1, 2008 Late Registration: June 15, 2008 Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Vancouver, Canada Centre for Dialogue Madjid Fathi, Hamid Garmestani, University of Siegen Georgia Tech Mehrdad Saif, Farrokh Sassani, Simon Fraser University University of British Columbia Bernhard Wielage, Atrium Chemnitz University of Technology KM Tools Document Management Computational ● Collaboration Management Engineering ● Business Intelligence (in Application) ● Relationship Discovery ● KM Portals Composites ● Knowledge & Document Management in Engineering ● Knowledge & Information Extraction in Engineering ● Knowledge Portals & Intelligent Systems in Engineering ● Knowledge Visualization, Mining and Discovery ● Evaluation of KM in real Situations ● Composite Engineering Composites Technologies focused on Nano Material Suppliers ● ● Polymer Matrix Composites (Fibre glass Composites, CFRP,.C-Nanotube Reinforcements) ● Metal Matrix Composites (Al, Mg, Ti, Fibres, particles,...) Alternative Energy ● Fuel Cell Production ● Bioenergy Ocean thermal energy conversion ● ● Hydrogen Technologies ● Hydroelectricity (Polymeric, Carbon, Ceramic) ● Water Turbine Composite Materials processing technologies ● Wave Power ● Wind Power ● Solar Cells ● Ceramic Matrix Composites (oxide, non oxide matrices, Carbon Matrices, Nano Scaled Reinforcements) ● Fibres ● (RTM, LPS, LSI, ...) ● Asia Pacific Hall Applications (Industrial production, Severe Environments, Consumer Products, Energy Conversion, Bio-Medical Usage, ...) Engineering is a new evolution in the development, combining perspective and application of Materials in Alternative Energy (Fuel Cell Technology, Solar and Wind Energy) and involves people to transfer, share, retain, analyse, organize, improve, fuse, reuse and collaborate composite expertise. Comprehensive composite topics and distributed projects employ a conscious strategy of getting the right knowledge to the right people at the right time to help people share and develop knowledge into action in ways that strive to improve composite-organisational performance. The knowledge-oriented Composite organization provides research competence in scientific and technical fundamentals, also in environmental engineering and industrial management like iron and steel industry.