Introduction to the special issue on the 2012 EUCOMES European Conference on Mechanism Science

摘要

EUCOMES 2012 has been the fourth event of the series for EUCOMES (European Conference on Mechanism Science). EUCOMES was started as a conference initiative mainly for the European community working in Machine and Mechanism Science in order to facilitate aggregation and sharing interests for a better collaboration and activity visibility mainly but not only within European frames. The series was started in 2006 and the previous EUCOMES conferences were successfully held in Innsbruck, Austria (2006), Cassino, Italy (2008), and Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2010). EUCOMES 2012 was held in Santander, Spain from 18 to 22 September 2012. EUCOMES 2012 was organized by the University of Cantabria under the patronage of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science.