You are cordially invited to submit a paper for the 8^th International Conference on Axiomatic Design. Papers must be original, unpublished, written in English, and prepared using the template provided. All papers will be peer reviewed. Papers written in poor English will be returned to the authors for corrections. Uncorrected papers will be rejected. To support ICAD 2014 authors, we have arranged a 10% discount on professional English editing services with Uni-Edit. Visit their website at www.uni-edit.net or email uniedit.global@gmail.com for more information. All accepted papers will be published in the printed conference proceedings and will also be available in electronic form. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper.

                                                                       The paper template is available here.

General topics of interest include:

• Design Science and Applications;

• Design for Sustainability;

• Teaching and learning methods.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

- Design and development process;

- concept synthesis and evaluation;

- diagnostics and design improvement;

- software design and development;

- six sigma and robust design;

- integration with computer tools;

- integration with other design methods;

- large scale and industrial applications, successes, case studies;

- innovative application areas.