Archive - Call for Papers

The call for papers has now closed.

The WDSA 2012 Organising Committee welcomes extended abstract submissions for the WDSA 2012 Conference 25-27 September 2012 and for the pre-Conference workshops which will be held on Monday 24 September 2012.

As a commitment to attend and support the Conference, accepted presenters are expected to pay and register either for the full-time program or for the day of their presentation. Potential presenters should note all costs to attend the conference must be met from their own resources.

Extended Abstract Submissions

Closed.

Submissions must comply with the formatting guidelines below and must not exceed 2 pages of text followed by a maximum of 3 pages of supporting tables and graphics. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a full paper.

Submission Instructions

Prepare your extended abstract using the formatting guidelines below. When your abstract is complete, upload your submission via the online submission form - click the Submit button. You will be requested to add details of the contact author and suggest the Conference theme that best fits the submission.

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Download Extended Abstract Submission formatting guidelines here.

Themes

Alternative piped water systems: potable, recycled wastewater, stormwater, integration issues
Asset management: GIS tools, maintenance, system expansion and rehabilitation, condition assessment, replacement decisions
Contaminant intrusion and water security: detection, source identification, response modeling, sensor placement
Field work: tracer studies, pressure tests, case studies
Mixing and dispersion: junctions, pipes and deadends, storage tanks
Network models: development and applications, calibration and verification, reliability, topology, planning, design
Network steady state hydraulics: steady state analysis, leakage management, calibration
Network operations: Operational issues, emergency response and control, water quality issues
Network optimization: techniques, large networks, optimizing various components, multi-objective optimisation, optimization of water quality
Network real time and predictive operations: optimization, SCADA
Network vulnerability: network reliability, disaster response, emerging issues
Network water quality: real-time monitoring; modeling, dose exposure regulations
Sustainable water distribution systems: design/operation, water reuse and supply, dual distribution systems, carbon footprint, triple bottom line, social aspects, life cycle analysis
Transient analysis: networks, condition assessment using transients
Water distribution systems as microbiological systems: measurement, prediction, quantitative risk assessment
Water supply for remote communities: issues, intermittent supplies
Water usage: monitoring and modeling, estimation and simulation, end user assessment and models, forecasting, demand management

Copyright/Intellectual Property

It is Engineers Australia (EA) policy to maximise its members’ benefits arising from access to the technical and scientific material presented at conferences supported by Engineers Australia.

In order to give effect to this policy, Engineers Australia and RMIT Publishing have jointly developed a full text collection service that features the papers delivered at Engineers Australia supported conferences. This collection is available exclusively to members of Engineers Australia who subscribe to e-Publications available at the Engineers Australia library. Non-subscribing members have free access to the abstracts of these papers. From time to time EA may also publish this material in Engineers Australia journals or in separately-produced Engineers Australia publications.

In order to make this material available to its members by using these facilities, Engineers Australia must own the intellectual property contained in all technical and scientific material presented at conferences it supports.

In order to vest ownership of this material in Engineers Australia, presenters are required to sign an agreement for the transfer of copyright of the work to Engineers Australia. When transferring copyright, the author retains the right to use the substance of the presentation in future works.

Authors are also required to sign a copyright licence that allows Engineers Australia to make the material available to RMIT Publishing to be entered on the Informit Elibrary database.

Copies of the transfer agreement and copyright licence form will be made available to authors of accepted abstracts. A signed copy of these forms will need to be returned with the full paper.

Workshop Proposals

Submission procedures

The call for Workshop proposals has now closed.

Timetable

Abstracts - Two page extended abstracts will be required. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a full paper

Call for abstracts open 1 October 2011
Call for abstracts close 24 February 2012
Acceptance advice late March 2012
Full papers due 10 July 2012
Early bird registration close 10 July 2012