The proceedings of the fourth ICMA in 2004 represent a huge contribution to research in this area. Everyone attending the conference was asked to submit their papers electronically which meant that 100 top quality papers from no less that 10 different countries contributed to the theme of the conference.

X. Y. Shao and C. Deng are the authors of International Conference on Manufacturing Automation: Advanced Design and Manufacturing in Global Competition, published by Wiley.