This workshop was organized to foster discussions about topics presented in papers that were not advanced enough to be published at the main CSD&M conference, but were worth a shorter presentation around a poster. The program committee of CSD&M selected these papers for presentation at the Poster Workshop and publication in separate proceedings. The purpose of the “Complex Systems Design & Management” (CSD&M) conference is to be a forum for both academic researchers and industrial actors working on complex industrial systems architecture and engineering in order to facilitate their meeting. The last three CSD&M 2010, CSD&M 2011 and CSD&M 2012 conferences - which were held in October 2010, December 2011 and December 2012 in Paris - were the first steps in this direction with respectively more than 200, 250 and 280 participants coming from 20 different countries with an almost perfect balance between academia and industry.
Each submission was assigned to at least two program committee members, who carefully reviewed the papers, in many cases with the help of external referees. These reviews were discussed by the program committee during a physical meeting held in C.E.S.A.M.E.S. office in Paris by June 11, 2013 and via the EasyChair conference management system.
We also chose 17 outstanding speakers with various industrial and scientific expertise to give a series of invited talks covering all the spectrum of the conference, mainly during the two first days of CSD&M 2013, the last day being dedicated to a special “vision session” and the presentations of all accepted papers in parallel with three system-focused tutorials. The first day of the conference is especially organized around a common topic – Systems of systems – that gives a coherence to all the initial invited talks.