CLEaR 2023 – Construction Logistics, Equipment, and Robotics

from October 09-11, 2023 at the TUM Academy Center Raitenhaslach

CLEaR is a new conference organized by the Technical University in Munich (TUM). This premier international conference brings together different stakeholder groups (research, industry, governments,​ associations, etc.), industrial domains (construction, robotics, software, etc.), and local and international players.​

  • Planned conference mode: In person​
  • Scientific papers: Full papers, scientific structure, 6-8 pages, exclusive references. Proceedings published in Springer and indexed in Scopus.
  • Conference Language: English (AE)

Call for Papers

Tracks

T1 – Constr. Logistics

– Supply chain management​
– Process management​
– LEAN and industrialized construction​
– Production systems​
– Smart contracts​
– Integrated project delivery​
– BIM and digtial twin​

T2 – Constr. Equipment

– Sensoric and embedded systems​
– Zero emission and sustainability ​
– Connected machines and networks​
– Autonomous machines​
– IIoT and collaborative machines​

 

T3 – Constr. Robotics

– Autonomous mobile robots​
– Construction robot manipulators and tools
– Computer vision and perception systems​
– Applied AI​
– Cloud/edge computing​
– Human-robot collaboration in construction

Key Dates

Call for papers start: December 06, 2022​
Abstract deadline (optional): February 15, 2023
Acceptance of abstracts: February 28, 2023
Full paper submission deadline (mandatory): April 16, 2023
Provisional acceptance of papers & comments from reviewers: May 30, 2023
Revised versions due: June 15, 2023
Final notification on acceptance of revised paper: June 26, 2023
Camera-ready papers upload (program official): June 28, 2023
Conference in Science and Study Center Raitenhaslach:    October 09 -11, 2023

 

Templates

Template and guidelines

Springer Guidelines for Authors

Download Word-Form Contributor Agreement

Download Permissions Request Form (Written permission form for use of third-party copyright material in manuscript.)

Download Release Request Form (To obtain permission from interviewees or other identifiable individuals or the owners of identifiable property in source material.)

Paper submission

The papers can be submitted at the following link: https://www.events.tum.de/frontend/index.php?sub=164

Accepted papers will be disseminated as oral presentations or posters. Author guidelines, template and more information about the paper and presentation types can be found on the website of Springer.
Springer proceedings are Scopus and EI Compendex database indexed. They can be accessed through the Springer publications repository available at https://www.springer.com/series/15087

TUM Akademiezentrum Raitenhaslach
Raitenhaslach 11
84489 Burghausen

Directions to the venue

We will offer a bus shuttle between the Hotel Glöcklhofer and the TUM Akademiezentrum Raitenhaslach in the morning and in the evening. Details will be announced later.

Technical University of Munich
Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics
Boltzmannstraße 15
85748 Garching

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fottner (Chair), Technical University Munich (TUM), TUM School of Engineering and Design, Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics 
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Nübel (Vice-Chair), Technical University Munich (TUM), TUM School of Engineering and Design, Chair for Construction Management 
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dominik Matt, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Faculty of Science and Technology, Chair for Production Systems and Technologies, Head of the research department "Industrial Engineering & Automation (IEA)" 

Other members of the Organizing Committee

Reviewers

Reviewers are invited after papers are assigned. The authors’ selected area of any submission might be changed by the Chair & the Vice-Chair. Reviewers need to carefully review the paper and fill in the Review Form. Best reviewers will be selected by all the chairs.

You are responsible for your own bookings and cancellations. We have blocked a number of rooms at the following hotel until 01 August 2023. You can book a room using the keyword "Clear Conference". Please be sure to provide the hotel with your full contact and payment details when booking.

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Salutation, title, surname, first name, company, department, street, house number, postcode, town, country, e-mail address, differing billing address we need to know who our contractual partner is, i.e. to whom we provide and invoice our services. Even if you are not our contractual partner, but another legal entity (e.g. your employer), we need your name to be able to assign you as a participant in our event and to set up your access authorisation. Your name will be printed on your personal name badge, which you can use to identify yourself as an authorised participant at our event.
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Your data will not be passed on to third parties. There may be a further exception due to legal obligations to pass on data. Authors are excluded from this policy. Authors' names, institutions, postal addresses, e-mail addresses and the accepted revised paper will be forwarded to Springer Nature.

All data collected will be stored until the end of the contract or until all claims have been settled, at the latest until the statute of limitations has expired, and then deleted. The general limitation period according to § 195 BGB is 3 years. We would like to point out that we are also subject to statutory retention obligations for tax and accounting reasons, which go beyond the aforementioned three years.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us (clear.fml@ed.tum.de) or our data protection officer (www.datenschutz.tum.de).

Newsletter or contact for further event for the CLEaR
Your personal data (surname, first name, title, title and e-mail address) will also be used to contact you regarding future CLeAR conferences at the Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics at the Technical University of Munich. This means that you will receive information on the call for papers and the conference programme by e-mail. This contact with regard to future conferences will only be made if you have consented to this when registering in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Lit a DSGVO (consent). You can revoke your consent at any time for the future without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on Art. 6 (1) lit a DSGVO that took place on the basis of the consent until the revocation. After your revocation, we will immediately remove your email address from our newsletter distribution list. Please send your revocation to clear.fml@ed.tum.de.

Under the legal conditions, you have the right to information, as well as the right to correction or deletion or to restriction of processing or a right to object to processing, as well as the right to data portability. For this purpose, please contact clear.fml@ed.tum.de. There is also a right of appeal to the Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us (clear.fml@ed.tum.de) or our data protection officer (www.datenschutz.tum.de).

Lists of participants and photographs
If you have given us your consent, your surname, first name and the company/institution you work for will be included in a list of participants, which will be distributed to all participants present.

With your consent to the privacy policy, you will be included in photographs which will be used on our website or in magazines for reporting on the event or for advertising purposes about the event.

For CLeAR authors
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Authors also agree that their submitted and revised manuscripts may be forwarded to Springer Nature. Authors hereby grant Springer Nature an exclusive right of use in accordance with Section 31 (3) sentence 1 of the German Copyright Act (UrhG).

Responsible for the content
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fottner
Munich University of Technology
Chair of Materials Handling Material Flow Logistics
Boltzmannstr. 15
85748 Garching
E-mail: clear.fml@ed.tum.de
Tel. +49.89.289.15921
www.mec.ed.tum.de/fml

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