FIFTEEN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSPORT, ROAD-BUILDING AND HOISTING & HAULING TECHNICS AND TECHNOLOGIES

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

THE CONFERENCE IS HELD UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF PETAR MUTAFCHIEV - MINISTER OF TRANSPORT OF REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA AND IT IS DEVOTED TO THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FACULTY OF TRANSPORT AND 15TH ANIVERSARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AIR TRANSPORT OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SOFIA

*National society of internal combustion engines specialists
*National scientific AND technical club of automobile and tractor technics and industrial trucks building
*FEDERATION OF SCIENTIFIC - ENGINEERING UNIONS IN BULGARIA

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Interior - Road Police
IMechE – Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Automobile division - member of EAEC– United Kingdom
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin - Ireland
University of Castilla-La Mancha – Spain
SAIR – member of EAEC - Automotive Engineers Society of Romania
Denmark Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering – Denmark
UBIA - Union of Automobile Engineers - member of EAEC– Belgium
SATL- member of EAEC - The Association of Automotive Technical Societies in Finland
Academic Automotive Association – AAA Belarus
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Faculty of Transport Engineers - Lithuania
Technical University – Sofia and TU Plovdiv Branch
Angel Kanchev University of Rousse - Rousse
Technical University – Varna

BY THE ASSISTANCE OF
BALKAN STAR JSCo,    TECHNOTEST Ltd. - Sofia
AUTOMOTOR CORPORATION JSCo – Sofia
NIKAS Ltd., INKOTAR JSCo.,  AEBTRI - Sofia
ISUZO SOFCO JSCO.– Sofia
UNION OF THE AUTOMOBILE IMPORTERS

TIME, VENUE
the BULBANK rest home,
Sozopol- Bulgaria
September 18th- 20th 2008

INVITATION

Dear Colleagues,
The upcoming Fifteen International Scientific Technical Conference trans & MOTAUTO'08 is devoted to the 45-th anniversary of the Faculty of Transport and the 15-th anniversary of the Department of  Air transport of Technical University Sofia.
The Faculty of Transport was established in 1963 when the Faculty of Transport and Communications established in 1959 was divided. The new Faculty of Transport includes 5 departments:  Department of Combustion Engines, Automobile Engineering and Transport; Department of Railway Engineering; Department of Mechanics; Department of Strength of Materials; Department of Air Transport.
The structure of the Faculty is 64 lecturers and employees and it graduates 800 students - bachelors and masters of Science in the following subjects:

1. “Transport technics and technology”
2. “Management and technology of the transport”
3. “Air transport technics and technology”

The Faculty of transport is a center approved in the whole country for engineers graduation and wanted partner for scientific collaboration with many enterprises, unions and associations.
During the year 2008 the Faculty of transport will celebrate 45 years of its foundation and the Department of Air transport  celebrates 15 years of its foundation.
         It will be pleasure for us to welcome you as guests of the anniversary and of
The Fifteen International Conference trans & MOTAUTO'08

Prof. Dr. Eng. Teodosi Evtimov
Dean of the Faculty of transport
President of the Organizing Committee

MAIN TOPICS

1. INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
2. MILITARY –TRANSPORT AND AUTOMOBILE TECHNICS. TRANSPORT
3. RAILWAY ENGINEERING AND TRANSPORT
4. aGRICULTURAL TECHNICS
5. AEROSPACE AND AVIATION ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGIES
6. SHIP BUILDING AND NAVIGATION
7. ELECTRIC/ENGINE POWERED FORK LIFT/PLATFORM IMDUSTRIAL TRUCKS, HOISTING AND HAULING AND ROAD-BUILDING TECHNICS
8. OPERATIoN EXPLOITATION, REPAIr, MAINTENANCE. SERVICE ATTENDANCE
9. MECHANICS, DYNAMICS, STRENGTH AND RELIABILITY. THEORY OF MACHINES AND MECHANISMS
10. COMPUTER TECHNICS AND APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES CAD/CAM/CAE
11. INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT. LOGISTICS
12. SAFETY & ECOLOGY
13. THEORY OF TEACHING/TRAINING, EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

FEES

TYPE OF FEE	When paid up to 15.07.08	When paid up to 30.08.08	When paid after 30.08.08
1. PUBLICATION FEE - for including a paper in the Conference Proceedings and author’s scroll	65 EURO	85 EURO	105 EURO
2. Additional payment for publishing in “Machines, Technologies, Materials” revue and an issue of the revue	55 EURO	75 EURO	90 EURO
3. PUBLICATION FEE only for publishing in Machines, Technologies, Materials" revue and an issue of the revue	95 EURO	95EURO	95 EURO
4. Additional payment for a volume with plenary and sectional papers	20 EURO	20 EURO	30 EURO
5. Additional payment for a CD with all papers	10 EURO	10 EURO	15 EURO
6. Registration fee 6.1 For foreign members of the Organizer 6.2 For other participants	140 EURO 190 EURO	160 EURO 210 EURO	180 EURO 230 EURO

 

NOTES:
1. “Publication fee” it is to be paid for each paper. Those who have paid it will receive an “Authors’ scroll”. It contains the title sheet of the proceedings and a copy of the paper. Those papers for which no publication fee is paid will not be included in the program of the conference and the conference proceedings.
The additional payment for publication in the "Machines, technologies, materials" revue is not obligatory.
In case the Organizing Committee decides not to include a paper in the program, the paid fee will be sent back to the author immediately.
2. The “Registration fee” includes participation in  all sections of trans & MOTAUTO'08, in the WELCOME cocktail (SP1), in the coffee breaks, the business program, 2 overnight stays in a hotel 3* – bed in a double room, 2 lunches with fixed menu (SP4), also receiving of the conference materials (not including a publication). Those who wish to be accommodated in a single room should pay additionally 15 Euro a night.
3. “The foreign members of the organizer” – these are the members of the Scientific-technical Union of Mechanical Engineering, who are registered as members up to 15.07.2008. The terms for membership registration you may find on our internet site www.mech-ing.com/chlenstvo/individual_eng.htm. The payment for the membership is to be made together with the “Registration fee” or at the arrival.

PROGRAMME SCHEME

18.09.2008	10.30 - 12.00 – Opening of the conference, Plenary Session 12.00 - 13.30 – Lunch 13.00 – 16.00 - Rest 16.00 - 18.30 – First Session 20.00 - 23.00 – Cocktail party “Well Come”
19.09.2008	09.00 - 12.00 – Second Session 12.00 - 13.00 – Lunch 13.00 – 16.00 - Rest 16.00 – 18.30 - Third Session. Closing the Conference 19.30 -  23.00 - „Bulgarian Dinner”
20.09.2008	09.00 - 14.30 – Sightseeing tour to the South Black Sea Coast

PAPERS
The papers which will be presented in the sessions have to correspond to the topics of the conference. It will be presented and published only papers, submitted by reviewers and correspond to the forms of the graphical and text instructions   which have become a public property in the sectional or poster sessions.
Please send us the papers in format *.doc   up to 15.07.2008 by email together with the Application form for participation /Form A/ or with accompanying online registration. The name of the file of your paper has to include author’s name and the word “tm08” /Example: “ivanov.tm08.doc”/. If you wish your paper to be with color graphs and diagrams in your authors scroll, then you should send it by post service. Your Application form for participation “A” will be registered on internet site of the Conference in the “Submitted papers” section and your paper will get a registration number. It will be a great relief for the work of the Organizing Committee if you include this number in the future correspondence as a beginning of the file’s name of the paper /Example: 137.ivanov.tm08.doc/.
For participation in the poster session will be permitted only papers formed corresponding to the graphical and text instructions for poster papers or exceeding these rules. Posters formed in keeping with the requirements have to be send to the Organizing Committee till 30.08.08 so the paper can be a publicly presented at the conference. The organizing committee takes the obligation to print the paper in A1 format.

Note: All instruction can be found on the internet site of the Conference www.mech-ing.com/trans-motauto.   You can download from there a sample form in which you can write in your names and title where it’s marked so the fonts and the logo of the Conference will be correct.

PUBLICATIONS
The papers included in the programme will be published:

• In separate volumes of the proceedings for each topic session, with ISBN 954-9322, which will be lodged in St.St. Cyril and Methodius  National Library and Central Scientific-technical Library
• In CD, containing all conference papers
• Detached issue of the scientific-technical revue “MACHINES, TECHNOLOGIES, MATERIALS” (ISSN 1313-0226). This publishing is at will and requires additional payment
• Author’s scroll, containing the title page and the contents of the volume, and printed copy of the author’s paper with the page numbers set.

VISAS

For the participants who have visa requirements and who wish to take personally part we have secured to get free visas. After we have received their application form for participation, they will receive from us a personal invitation, needed for receiving a visa, together with the confirmation for including their paper in the program of the conference. We beg you when you are sending the text of your paper to write the names of authors and accompanying persons, who would like to receive an invitation for a free visa.

IMPORTANT TERMS

1.	Sending the papers together with the application form “A” and paying the “Publication fee” and the reduced “Participation fee”	15.07.2008
2.	Publication of info on www.mech-ing.com/trans-motauto about the accepted papers	Running
3.	Paying the “Participation fee” and sending the application form “B”	30.08.2008
4.	Publication of the programme of the conference on www.mech-ing.com/trans-motauto	09.09.2008
5.	Registration of the participants	17. – 19.09.2008
6.	The opening of trans&MOTAUTO'08 will take place at 10:30 am in the BULBANK rest home, Lazuren Briag str, Sozopol.	18.09.2008

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Instructions for forming the papers	Programming committee	Online Registration	Payments
Scientific program	Accompanying program	Received papers	Register of payments