Benefits of Attending

Conference Proceedings Papers presented at HPSM/OPTI 2014 will be published by WIT Press in Volume 137 of WIT Transactions on the Built Environment (ISSN: 1746-4498, Digital ISSN: 1743-3509). WIT Press ensures maximum dissemination of your research throughout the world through its own offices in Europe, the USA and its extensive international distribution network.

Delegates will have the choice of receiving the conference book in either hard cover or digital format on a USB flash drive. The USB flash drive will additionally contain papers from previous conferences in this series.

Indexing and Archiving Papers presented at Wessex Institute conferences are referenced by CrossRef and regularly appear in notable reviews, publications and databases, including referencing and abstract services such as SCOPUS, Compendex, ISI Web of Knowledge, Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings, ProQuest and Scitech Book News. All conference books are archived in the British Library and American Library of Congress.

Citations When referencing papers presented at this conference please ensure that your citations refer to Volume 137 of WIT Transactions on the Built Environment as this is the title under which papers appear in the indexing services.

Digital Archive All conference papers are archived online in the WIT eLibrary (http://library.witpress.com) where they are immediately and permanently available to the international scientific community.

Open Access Open Access allows for the full paper to be downloaded from the WIT eLibrary archives, offering maximum dissemination. Delegates who opt for Open Access will receive a collection of papers on related fields on a USB flash drive at registration.

Journal Papers Participants of HPSM/OPTI 2014 will be invited after the conference to submit an enhanced version of their research for possible publication in one of the International Scientific Journals edited by the Wessex Institute.

Networking Participants can present their research and interact with experts from around the world, becoming part of a unique community.

Reduced Fee for PhD Students The Wessex Institute believes in the importance of encouraging PhD students to present and publish innovative research at their conferences. As a result, the Institute offers PhD students a much reduced conference fee.