Proceedings of the 8th Biennial ASME Conference on EngineeringSystems Design and Analysis, July 4-7, 2006, Torino, Italy. Printedcollection of 116 full-length, peer-reviewed technical papers onthe following topic areas: Advanced Energy Systems; AdvancedMaterials; Aerospace; Automation and Robotics; Noise Control andAcoustics; Systems Engineering.