Editorial: ISARC 2013

摘要

The 30th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC 2013) in the beautiful city of Montreal, Canada was a tremendous success with 395 registered attendees. By joining the mining industry, ISARC 2013 was able to offer a combined program of mining and construction, so that we learned from each other and our respective communities. In Sydney, in 2014, the 31st ISARC very successfully echoed this approach. The 30th ISARC was hosted in conjunction with the World Mining Congress. A very strong Technical Program was assembled under the expert leadership of several track chairs who were listed on the conference web site and the proceedings. Session chairs, together with the Technical Program Committee (from industry, academia, and government), undertook the difficult job of carefully evaluating the large number of submitted papers, considering the merits of each through detailed reviews and discussions at the Program Committee meetings, and selected a technical program of the highest caliber.