The Tenth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering (TMCE 2014) will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 19 to 23 May, 2014. This Symposium will be jointly organized by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

RELEVANT TOPICS

• Still unsolved problems and issues of competitive engineering at the beginning of the 21st century
• Engineering issues of material and energy utilization is sustainable product-service systems
• Technologies and methodologies for competitive collaborative virtual engineering and sustainable process enhancement
• Support of sustainability-conscious creativity, innovation, design, planning and management
• Human aspects, knowledge and information as basis for integrated, global, and BoP-orientated product innovation
• Industrial application case studies of sustainable product, process and service innovations
• New advancements in the theories, methodologies, approaches and best practices of social and ecological sustainability
• Economic policies, stategies, methods and standards of sustainability and resource management in geographical, economic, industrial and social contexts
• Opportunities and challenges for sustainable research, education, design and practice in the 21st century
• Technical environment analysis, and distributed collaborationve information and knowledge exploration
• Interconnection between social and ecological sustainability and cyber-physical systems
• Multi-sensorial input and visualization, and abstract, virtual and physical prototyping for cyberphysical systems
• Sensor technologies, sensor networks, and their applications in sustainability-enhancing systems
• Transmission/communication technologies, and their application in sustainability-enhancing systems
• Next generations Internet, wireless, ad hoc networking, and their applications in sustainability-enhancing systems
• Information mining, object retrieval, knowledge synthesis and agent structures in sustainability-enhancing systems
• Cyber-physical architectures as foundations for distributed, collaborative
and adaptive sustainability- enhancing systems
• Interaction with multi-scale cyber-physical systems, ubiquitous/pervasive products, and pervasive services
• Emerging educational issues of developing and using cyberphysical systems for fostering sustainability
• Strategic and incremental innovations, design and implementation of embedded systems in social context
• Designing and validating cyberphysical systems, smart products and situated services for emerging markets
• New approaches and processes for embedded systems and applications, and for virtual and physical unerring system validation