

This is aimed at providing authors an additional incentive to take the efforts of preparing a manuscript also in the future. Hereby, the 2018 manuscripts will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library to ensure an international visibility and a high value for the citation index. Most of them are still available! We even intend to increase this availability: For the first time, the digital version of these proceedings will be published in cooperation with the VDE Verlag GmbH (VDE Publishing House), now. That’s indeed a huge fund of innovations and scientific results – and this fund is not a hidden treasure!

About 2,200 conference presentations have been published on 10,000 pages of conference proceedings since the launch event in 1988, since 1998 also in a digital version. That’s indeed not common practice with today’s conferences, but we are sure this will be a good way to continue in the future.įrom our point of view, these manuscripts are the indispensable documentation to refer to during and after the event. We feel that this is a perfect moment to express our sincere thanks – also on behalf of the audience – to all the authors who have supported us perfectly during all these years. By now, we have published sixteen proceedings containing almost all the manuscripts related to the presentations – only a few of the manuscripts are missing. And for 30 years now, it’s a good tradition to have the Conference Proceedings ready for distribution to the registered delegates at the start of the event. Since 1988, this series of conferences has always been held in Bremen, Germany, every two years.
