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Welcome Letters

IDETC/CIE

42ND DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE (DAC)
Dear Colleagues, • DETC2016-59609: “Engineering Resilience Quantification and
System Design Implications: A Literature Survey,” by N. Yodo and P.
Wang (DAC 8-1)
Welcome to the 42nd ASME Design Automation Conference (DAC)!
• DETC2016-60094: "Many-Attribute Decision Making Using Iterative
Attribute Subsets," by L. Ziegler and K. Lewis (DAC 4-1)
The DAC technical program spans the breadth and depth of design
automation research. After a rigorous peer review process, 118 papers in 18 • DETC2016-60218: "Combined Lumped and Continuum Parameter
active research areas were accepted this year to the conference (the Design Optimization of Electrothermal Systems," by D.J. Lohan, J.T.
approximate acceptance rate was 77%). Allison, E.M. Dede and M. (DAC 11-2)
• DETC2016-60244: “An Integrative Framework for Design and Control
Optimization of a Variable-Ratio Gearbox in a Wind Turbine with
In addition to our technical sessions, we will be hosting a keynote sympo-
Active Blades,” by A. Lall, H.K. Nejadkhaki, and J. Hall (DAC 11-3)
sium under the theme “Design for Additive Manufacturing.” Co-organized by
Carolyn Conner Seepersad and Christopher Mattson, the symposium will
feature internationally recognized keynote speakers in a series of lightning Authors from our community will present these and many other excellent
talks, followed by an interactive Q&A session, focusing on the engineering papers throughout the conference. We encourage you to support your
design challenges associated with additive manufacturing. colleagues by attending the presentations and joining in the discourse!

We will also be presenting the Ford Best Paper Award of the DAC at the Last, but surely not least, organizing the conference requires the assis-
beginning of the symposium. This year’s winner is DETC2016-60118: “Character- tance of a number of individuals. We are particularly grateful to all session
ization and Design of Functional Quasi-Random Nanostructured Materials Using organizers and paper review coordinators, as follows:
Spectral Density Function,” by Shuangcheng Yu, Yichi Zhang, Chen Wang,
Won-kyu Lee, Biqin Dong, Teri W. Odom, Cheng Sun, and Wei Chen (DAC 11-3). Jesse Austin-Breneman, Kenneth Bryden, Matt Campbell, Shikui Chen, Wei
Chen, Souma Chowdhury, Charlotte de Vries, Guang Dong, Xiaoping Du,
Refreshments will be available before, during, and after the symposium; so, Bryony DuPont, Georges Fadel, Scott Ferguson, James Guest, John Hall,
come early and stay late! Chris Hoyle, Chao Hu, Horea Ilies, Nathan Johnson, Ritesh Khire, Astrid
Layton, Ikjin Lee, Kemper Lewis, Mian Li, Po Ting Lin, Matthew Lynch, Nordica
MacCarty, Erin MacDonald, Christopher Mattson, Ali Mehmani, Seung Ki
Also, please join us for our DAC committee meeting on Tuesday evening
(7:00pm). This year, we will feature a warm dinner buffet during our Moon, Beshoy Morkos, Zissimos Mourelatos, Saigopal Nelaturi, Julian Norato,
meeting, so please do not make any other dinner plans! Drinks will be Andrew Olewnik, Jitesh Panchal, Matt Parkinson, Rahul Renu, Carolyn Conner
available from 6:30 pm. We look forward to having our community come Seepersad, Daniel Selva, Kristina Shea, Tim Simpson, Andres Tovar, Conrad
together, meet old friends, and make new ones. Tucker, Christopher Vermillion, Krishna Vijayaraghavan, Gary Wang, Pingfeng
Wang, Yan Wang, Christopher Williams, Zhimin Xi, and Jie Zhang.
From the accepted papers, nine were identified as “Papers of Distinction” On behalf of the entire DAC community, we welcome you to Charlotte and
(seven of them were eligible for the Best Paper Award sponsored by Ford another enjoyable and thought-provoking Design Automation Conference.
Motor Company). These papers of distinction (excluding the paper that
won the Best Paper Award) are listed below (ordered by paper number and
including the assigned session): Thank you,

• DETC2016-59119: “A Cluster Analysis Study of Opportune Adoption of
Electric Drive Vehicles for Better Greenhouse Gas Reduction,” by K.
Hamza and K.P. Labertaux (DAC 5-1)

• DETC2016-59225: “Uncertainty Quantification in Metamodel-based
Reliability Prediction,” by S. Nannapaneni, Z. Hu, and S. Mahadevam
(DAC 14-1)
Michael Kokkolaras Harrison Kim
• DETC2016-59401: “A Set-Based Method for Multilevel Design of Conference Chair Program Chair
Materials and Structures with Manufacturing Uncertainty,” by C.
Morris, C.C. Seepersad, and M.R. Haberman (DAC 11-1) McGill University University of Illinois
• DETC2016-59532: “Brass Instruments Design Using Physics-Based Montreal, QC, Canada Urbana, IL, United States
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Sound Simulation Models and Surrogate-Assisted Derivative-Free michael.kokkolaras@mcgill.ca hmkim@illinois.edu
Optimization,” by R. Tournemenne, J.-F. Petiot, B. Talgorn, and M.
Kokkolaras (DAC 14-2)