The 18^th Annual SDPS conference is a premier forum for knowledge integration which attracts scientists, researchers and professionals who promote excellence in transdisciplinary research and education through collaboration and cooperation between academia and industry and across boundaries of disciplines and research fields. The focus is on human needs engineering. SDPS 2013 also provides an excellent venue for researchers and practitioners in transdisciplinary research and education who focus on theoretical, methodological, and technological advances in the development of transformative systems through transdisciplinary means. The conference seeks original and high quality research papers and experience reports from highly motivated individuals with openness and enthusiasm towards using innovative approaches in solving academic, technical, business and social problems in our modern society. However, we also encourage works-in-progress in transdisciplinary research and development areas centered on various human needs. Our sessions and workshops are also open to a range of transdisciplinary disciplines applied across engineering, business, management, healthcare, education and governance.

Special Benefits to SDPS 2013 Paper Submissions

• Best paper award will be given during the conference gala banquet;
• Selected papers will be published in the SDPS journal;
• Selected group of related papers will be published in a special issue of the SDPS journal;
• SDPS Publishes a number of books each year and extended versions of conference papers may be considered for publication.

Primary Topic Groups

The following list of primary topic groups include foundations, technology, applications and experiences centered on human needs engineering.  Original work in other areas is also considered:

Foundations - Theories, models, algorithms for integrative process and design science

• Process and design science
• Health and life science
• Transdisciplinary research
• Service science
• Software and systems engineering
• Software Science
• Computational science
• Cyber physical systems
• Adaptive computational systems

Technology - Methods for transformative design

• Collective knowledge and intelligence
• Semantic web and web services
• Ontologies, reasoning, semantic and trustworthy computing
• Computational linguistics
• Fuzzy systems
• Data mining and visual analytics
• Information visualization
• Virtualization technologies
• Autonomous computing
• Cloud computing
• Sensor and sensory perception technologies
• Video technologies and Image processing
• Cyber and network security and management
• Global design and supply chain management
• Design automation
• Application-centric design methods
• Statistical methods

Applications - Projects for transformative research

• Smart and healthy cities and networks
• Sociotechnical systems
• Transformative community and cities
• eHealth and bioinformatics
• Intelligent medical systems
• Pharmaceutical
• Green and future energy systems
• Transportation
• Education in STEM
• Humanities
• Natural language processing
• Brain and behavioral science
• Cybercrime
• Knowledge economy
• Process industry technologies
• Electronic control systems
• Intelligent vehicle design and automation
• Telecom and network centric systems
• Aerospace, defense and space systems