The 2011 International Scientific Program of 5thSASTech scopes five categories of science and technology and a number of workshops on a wide range of technological themes. Scope of the 5th SASTech 2011 : • Civil Engineering + Information Technology + Environmental Engineering GIS + Remote Sensing Water Resources Engineering and Management + Hydraulic Engineering and Turbulence Modeling + Transportation Engineering + Surveying,Geodesy and Geomatics + Construction Materials,Technology and Management + Soil,Foundation and Geotechnical Engineering + Structure Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering + Seismic Vulnerability and Retrofitting + Structural Engineering and Withstand Blast + Passive Defense Engineering • Electrical,Communication Engineering + Digital and Microprocessor/Controller Systems + Solid State Devices,Circuits and Systems + Systems,Controls and Automated Manufacturing + Electromagnetic Fields and Applications + Digital Signal and Image Processing + Telecommunications and Information Systems + Power Systems and Industrial Power Electronics + Optical Devices and Systems + Nanotechnology and MEMS – Materials and Devices + Applied Electronics • Computer Science and Technology + Bio Computation + Hardware/Architecture + Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality + Scientific Computing + Data Mining + IT Management GIS Remote Sensing + Grid Computing and Applications + Embedded Systems and Application + E-Learning,e-Business,Enterprise Information Systems,and e-Government + Artificial Intelligent + Internet systems & infrastructure + Networks + Knowledge representation & reasoning + Image Processing,Computer Vision,and Pattern Recognition + Modeling,Simulation,and Visualization Methods + Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications + Security and privacy + Software/operating systems + Semantic Web and Web Services + Natural language & speech + Programming language and compilers + Algorithms + Database & information systems + Geometric computation + Human computer interaction + Machine learning + Match theory of computation + Probabilistic methods & game theoretic methods + Multi agent systems and applications • Architecture + Sustainable Architecture + Design with Nature + Green Building (Case studies) + Building Construction + Interior Design + Landscape Architecture + Issues with Education,Research and Application • Urban Studies

+ Sustainable Development and Urban Form + Development of Electronic Services and Electronic City + GIS and Remote Sensing + Urban Identity + New Energies in Cities + Housing and Urban Affairs + Disaster Planning for Urban Areas + Disaster Management + Emergency Preparedness + Cities and Security + Economic Development + Redevelopment + Tourism + Urban Economics + Urban Finance + Environmental Issues + Sustainability + Urban Health + Technology and Society + Globalization + International Urban Issues + Governance + Intergovernmental Relations + Regionalism + Urban Management + Historic Preservation + Space and Place + Housing + Neighborhoods + Community Development + Human/Social Services + Immigration + Population and Demographic Trends + Infrastructure + Capital Projects + Networks + Transport + Urban Services + Land Use + Growth Management + Urban Development + Urban and Regional Planning + Urban Geography + Professional Development + The Field of Urban Affairs + Public Safety in Urban Areas + Urban Design + Urban Architecture and Landscape + Urban Indicators + Data/Methods + Satisfaction/Quality of Life Surveys + Urban Politics + Elections + Citizen Participation + Urban Theory + Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Urban Affairs.